Sitting on the top row of bleachers in the Orient-Macksburg gym above a sea of basketball-playing kids and chatting adults, Donna Blair reflects on old memories from her former school days. Just a ...

Prior to the construction of the gymnasium that was named O.H. Hughes Memorial Gymnasium after the school’s first superintendent, Sharpsville played home basketball games above the J.G. Romack ...

It’s the old school gym. It’s loud, it’s rowdy. The floor is springy as heck. You can hear every fan say everything about every ref. It is so much fun and I’m going to really miss it.

Back then, the “old” Jasper gym was not so old. It opened officially on Nov. 3, 1939, ironically the same night Leo “Cabby” O’Neill coached his first basketball game at Jasper.

When temperatures reached 110 degrees inside the former Booker T. Washington High School gymnasium during summer league basketball games, the basketball court had to be cleaned during free throw ...