The St. Joseph-Stanton Fire Protection District has launched their 2020 MDA Fill the Boot Fundraiser. In conjunction with the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s fundraising efforts, the St. Joseph-Stanton Department usually takes August to take time to stand in the four-way stop at IL-150 and Main Street to ask for donations. This […]
The 2020 Fall St. Joseph Community Garage Sales are scheduled for September 17-19. The SJO Daily will produce a free online and print garage sale guide. Listings for the online guide can be emailed to dani@sjodaily.com until September 14 at 5 p.m. The printed map will be distributed locally on […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The ripple effect was quickly being felt throughout St. Joseph once the district made the decision about how to start the school year. Instead of the traditional full-day approach, the COVID-19 pandemic demanded that changes be put in place at virtually all schools in the state. […]
By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD — As the state’s rolling COVID-19 test positivity rate increased again Wednesday, Gov. JB Pritzker and representatives of the University of Illinois announced a testing breakthrough which they said could eventually allow for greater suppression of new cases of the virus. The […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com So far, so good for the start of the school year in the Heritage school district. Thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the 2020 school year has little resemblance to the beginning of other years. “It will be an adventure,” Heritage superintendent Tom […]
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.
