By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans won five of seven flight races at the Decatur St. Teresa Invitational on Saturday (Sept. 19) and emerged as team champions in the 12-school event. When the places of the flighted races were totaled, SJ-O had 14 points. Runner-up Paxton-Buckley-Loda had a final score […]
The Illinois Department of Transportation announces that construction on Interstate 74 near Danville, just east of exit 210, begins Sept. 21. The project involves replacing the bridges that carry I-74 over the Salt Fork Vermilion River. Two median crossovers will be needed to accommodate construction, which will require lane closures. […]
The Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors (COP/C) voted unanimously to resume the football season starting the weekend of October 23-24, 2020. The Big Ten will require student-athletes, coaches, trainers and other individuals that are on the field for all practices and games to undergo daily antigen testing. Test […]
Christie Clinic will offer a convenient way to get a flu vaccination on a drop-in basis without an appointment in September and October. Christie Clinic drive-thru flu clinic locations include Christie Clinic on Windsor in Champaign and satellite clinics in Urbana, Danville on Vermilion, Mahomet, Monticello, Rantoul and Tuscola. Christie […]
It’s not too late to be added to the SJO Daily garage sale list for Sept. 17-19! Just email dani@sjodaily.com by 5 p.m. Sept. 15. The Village of St. Joseph will have Village-wide sales, but anyone in the Homer, Oakwood, St. Joseph, Ogden area is welcome to be listed online […]
The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met virtually for their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, September 14, 2020, where the Board approved several updates to the IHSA Return To Activities guidelines, while also providing guidance on the IHSA’s independent team participation rule for the 2020-21 school year. […]
Franklin Graham is promoting a National Day of Prayer and Repentance with a Prayer March in Washington, D. C. on Saturday, September 26 on the National Mall. Dr. James Dobson, Anne Graham Lotz, Alveda King, Pat Robertson, and other national religious leaders will be speaking. Cities around the country […]
The University of Illinois Extension has announced that TEConomy Partners, LLC, a firm specializing in impact assessments, values the annual economic and functional benefits of Illinois Extension at over $603 million, about 10 times the $60.9 million annual budget of the university unit. Extension operates in all of Illinois’ 102 […]
A Back the Blue Rally will begin at the Community Park in St. Joseph on Sept. 19. Noted as a “rally parade to show support for local P.D,” the event will begin at 11 a.m., heading to Champaign-Urbana where the group will meet up with others from Mahomet and Tolono. […]
Some might say that Shani McMullin had made it. She had the job she had always wanted as a neuroscientist doing government-funded research for a bipolar network in D.C. “I wanted to be a scientist since I was 8-years old and I realized that dream right out the gate, so […]
