By Fred Kroner fred@mahometnews.com Heritage dropped its first two baseball games of the season, losing 15-0 on Saturday at Bismarck and 19-1 on Monday at Homer against Prairieview Ogden. Jack Ballard had the team’s lone hit against Bismarck. Robert Holloman, who stole a base, and Kaden White were the other […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Prairieview Ogden opened the junior high baseball season with back-to-back wins. PVO topped Salt Fork 4-2 on Saturday at Royal. Parker Fitch’s run-scoring single in the first inning got the Mustangs on the board. PVO snapped a 1-1 tie in the fourth on a run-scoring hit […]
Champaign’s Mayor Deb Feinen issued to emergency orders Tuesday in efforts to curb an uptick in COVID-19 cases as students return to the University of Illinois. “According to the modeling data provided by University of Illinois researchers, the next several weeks will be critical to making sure the spread of […]
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department has issued a COVID-19 Face Coverings and Gathering Restrictions Ordinance to protect the citizens and visitors within Champaign County from contracting SARS-Co V-2 (COVID-19) disease by preventing its transmission, and to promote public health. Unlike the Illinois Department of Public Health emergency rule, which just […]
Prairieview-Ogden visited Heritage Junior High School on Aug. 17 to kick off the 2020 junior high baseball season. To see the full gallery, click here.
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) launched a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) travel map to help inform residents of potential risks associated with traveling during the pandemic today. The map indicates countries and U.S. states with increased risk of COVID-19 based on case rates. “Travel may increase the chance […]
The Illinois Department of Public Health have addressed many questions that parents, students and staff have about returning to school in the coming weeks. The following FAQ was released Aug. 12 to clarify their policies regarding the COVID-19 safety procedure. [pdf-embedder url=”https://sjodaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDPH-School-FAQs.pdf”]
When Jeff Isenhower was hired in Feb. 2019 to become the superintendent of Prairieview-Ogden in the fall of 2020, he had no idea that right before he was going to take the helm a global pandemic would rock the foundation of everything from business to how a district provides an […]
By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD — The state of Illinois will soon begin distributing $250 million in federal funds to help cities, counties and other units of local government pay for pandemic-related expenses. The General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules cleared the way Tuesday for the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The start of a world-wide pandemic hardly seems like the ideal time to undertake a new business venture, but Mahomet’s Brien Hawkins had to deal with opportunities as they arose. “In March, we started to get the ball rolling,” Hawkins said. Perhaps ‘rolling’ is too strong […]
