By Fred Kroner Three SJ-O entries dropped narrow 8-6 losses in a Friday (Oct. 2) girls’ tennis dual-meet loss to Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley. The Falcons defeated the Spartans 5-0. Both singles matches ended with 8-6 scores in favor of GCMS. At No. 1, SJ-O’s Hope Rajlich lost to Katie Steidinger. At […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden placed third, behind two state-ranked girls’ cross-country teams, on Saturday (Oct. 3) in a four-school meet at the St. Joseph Community Park. Mount Zion, ranked 19th in Class 2A in the latest milesplit.com state poll, was the meet winner with 25 points. Shelbyville, ranked 12th […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The state-ranked Spartans’ boys’ cross-country team emerged victorious on Saturday (Oct. 3) in a four-school meet at home. SJ-O, ranked ninth in Class 1A in the latest milesplit.com state poll, totaled 32 points. Following the Spartans were Mount Zion (47), Decatur St. Teresa (73) and Shelbyville […]
School administration and staff have been searching for a sense of normalcy for their students since March 2020. Almost all have conceded that “normal” has to be redefined. Oakwood High School’s Principal Tim Lee and Student Council Advisor Teresa Cooper knew a lot would be lost, though, without Oakwood’s long-standing […]
The Museum of the Grand Prairie announces its fourteenth annual and its first virtual Lincoln Speaker series. This year speakers will highlight the influential and complicated role of women in the fight for the abolition of slavery as well as their own struggle for the vote. All of the speakers […]
Trick-or-treating hours in the Village of St. Joseph will be from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, October 31. The use of face coverings, hand sanitizer, and social distancing (at least 6 feet) from others will always be required (per IDPH Guidelines), when outdoors while participating or chaperoning. Trick-or-treating will be challenging […]
DuPage County’s 18th Judicial Circuit Court ruled in favor of the defendant, the Illinois High School Association, Thursday, not granting a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO). Three parents in the west Chicago suburbs filed a class-action lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association, citing that it broke its own rules when […]
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that Mattis Avenue between Paula Drive and Hedge Road in Champaign will close Oct 5. The closure is necessary for the Norfolk Southern Railway to replace its crossing. No traffic will be allowed through the closure during the work, which is expected to last […]
The Staerkel Planetarium will remain in a digital format until Dec. 2020. On the first Friday of the month at 7 pm, the Staerkel Planetarium becomes a forum for a local scientist to discuss his or her specialties. All audiences are welcome! Admission is free for Staerkel’s shows on Zoom. […]
By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – More than 2 million Illinois voters have requested vote-by-mail ballots and more than 26,000 such ballots have already been returned, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections. That means about a quarter of the state’s registered voters had requested vote-by-mail […]
