By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Led by individual champion Grace Davis, the Oakwood/Salt Fork girls’ cross-country team repeated as Vermilion Valley Conference champions on Tuesday at Kickapoo State Park. Davis was timed in 21 minutes, 52 seconds for the 3-mile course. She finished 20 seconds ahead of the runner-up. Two teammates […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com An “incomprehensible event” has happened at St. Joseph-Ogden High School. Every person in the play “Trap” has fallen unconscious. That is every person except one, 16-year-old, Angela. Heche, a struggling detective, and Ephrain Silas, a firefighter, are on the scene to uncover the dangerous web of […]
The following students had successful auditions for Illinois Music Education District 3 Music Festivals. They will represent their school at Olivet Nazarene University in November. Oakwood Junior High Band Ben Schell, 8th-grade, Trumpet Eli Ronk, Junior, Baritone Heritage Junior High Chorus Lillian Montgomery, Soprano Cohen Sands, Tenor High School Chorus […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Eighth-grader Zach Ruwe captured a regional championship on Saturday in the Class 1A IESA race at St. Thomas More. Ruwe was timed in 11 minutes, 57 seconds for the 2-mile course. He finished 23 seconds in front of the runner-up. He will have plenty of familiar […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Both the St. Joseph boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams recorded dominant performances on Saturday to capture IESA Class 2A regional individual and team championships at Paxton. The girls’ program had the top two runners in a field of 86 competitors and also outdistanced the field in […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com Anyone who met Murelle Plotner will not forget her. “She was very upfront, very vocal, outgoing and didn’t hold back,” Mary Derenne said. Plotner’s spunk is what has stuck with Derenne for over a decade. While Derenne was an employee at St. Joseph Middle School, word […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com It’s all about the team for Olivia Sorensen. Team is why Heritage High School’s senior setter fell in love with volleyball in sixth grade. At the age of 12, Sorensen stepped onto the court for Heritage Junior High and the Prime Time Volleyball Club. “You get […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com A hand-knitted sweater, a hat made by grandma, a scarf that has been handed down through generations. At some point, wardrobes turned from the handmade to the store-bought. But here, in late 2019, there is a movement of people who want to experience the way yarn […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden Football For the second week in a row, the Spartans were held to two touchdowns and lost an Illini Prairie Conference decision. Friday’s setback at home was against unbeaten Chillicothe IVC, 33-12, and leaves SJ-O (4-3) still one win from playoff eligibility. Brady Buss, […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The football battle between Vermilion Valley Conference unbeatens went to Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin. The Blue Devils (6-1 overall and 4-0 in the VVC) overpowered Oakwood 35-6 Friday night in Fithian. The lone score for the Comets came on a 52-yard run by Gaven Clouse in the second quarter. […]
