Melissa Stephens and Mark Bukowski paint red and blue lines of “the house,” the bullseye-style goal in curling. The Winter Olympic game’s object is to shove a curling stone on the ice and hope it ...

When I stepped onto the ice, I could taste the cold; a chemical, ozone smell mixed with the crisp cool of the indoor ice sheets and the mustiness of the 62-year-old building that housed them. I ...

Dan Ivers, of Hancock County, during a recent match at the Circle City Curling Club facility in Anderson. The club now has a new facility dedicated specifically to the sport of curling. In the past, ...

The weight of a stone in curling directly affects the strategy and effectiveness of a throw. “Heavy” stones (up to 20 kg) allow you to break through your opponent's defense and knock figures out of ...

(From our Gazette archives during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.) Yet another great question, this time from Corinna, via Facebook. “I heard someone say you have to throw the rock 150 feet to the ...

Curling isn't a new sport to the Olympics, but sometimes it can seem like one of the most complicated. If you've watched any mixed doubles games so far, you may have some questions about what you've ...

Young people are now a big part of the club and for years curlers have been looking up to a longtime leader who has been throwing stones for decades. Carolyn Nelson, 81, lines up her shot at the Fargo ...

Mark Bukoswski furiously “sweeps” the ice ahead of a thrown stone at the Berglund Center hockey ring Sunday, at a match of the Roanoke Valley Curling Club, which launched in 2018. Sweeping, or ...