SJO Daily

By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Oakwood/Salt Fork qualified eight of its wrestlers for the Class 1A sectional and St. Joseph-Ogden had six wrestlers continue their seasons in Saturday’s regional meet at Unity High School. The Comets had two regional champions, sophomore Gage Reed (113 pounds) and junior Caide Borden (285 pounds). Other […]

By FRED KRONERfred@mahometdaily.com Chance Izard hit 5 of 9 three-point shots on Tuesday and scored a team-high 15 points as St. Joseph-Ogden posted a 51-49 win at Monticello. Izard was joined in double figures by two teammates. Joel Orcutt had 14 points and Jack Cook had 12 points. Cook pulled […]

By FRED KRONERfred@mahometdaily.com Girls’ basketball teams from Oakwood, St. Joseph-Ogden and Villa Grove/Heritage have all reached the 20-win mark for the season. All schools have another week to add to their totals before postseason play starts across the state on Feb. 4. Oakwood is 22-5 with an eight-game winning streak. […]

By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden built up a 30-point halftime lead on Monday and blitzed Rantoul 63-24 in an Illini Prairie Conference girls’ basketball game. SJ-O (20-4) reached the 20-win mark with the triumph. The Spartans led 15-4 after one quarter and thanks to a 21-2 second-quarter blitz, led 36-6 […]

By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Sunday was just another day for Sidney resident Paul Lewis. No parties. No parades. “I hung around the house,” he said. Exactly 38 years earlier, on Jan. 20, 1981, there was reason for Lewis and an entire country to celebrate. The longest hostage crisis situation in recorded […]