BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com For many farmers in East Central Illinois, decision time is drawing near. In a typical weather pattern, farmers throughout Champaign and Vermilion counties have completed planting their crops and are waiting for the summer heat to kick in as the calendar year turns to June. But this […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com Champaign County property owners can expect their property tax bills to arrive within the next few days. According to the Champaign County Clerk’s office, bills will be mailed out May 30 and May 31, and are already available to view on the Champaign County Property Tax Inquiry […]
Some sales will run Friday, but this list is for Saturday morning! 264 Barbara Drive: Moving Sale: Kitchen items, adult and kids clothes, and toys 109 Dolbee: Clothing mostly, and misc. 113 Dolbee: Girls clothes, household, and furniture 203 Longstreth: Misc. Items, 2 refridgerators, Bunk bed, toys and a stove […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com Looking at a friend in a coffee shop, listening to the wind run between the leaves, feeling the sun’s warmth in the middle of summer. There are many ways within a day’s drive that humans are able to connect with something bigger than self. One of the […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com It is always a solemn morning. No matter what the weather, how many people show up or what is said, lingering over Memorial Day, there is always someone missing as we gather to reflect on what America has been and what it is becoming. This year’s ceremonies […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com A pitcher’s duel on Saturday ended when Tuscola scored a run with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning at Illinois Wesleyan University to edge St. Joseph-Ogden 1-0 in a Class 2A sectional baseball tournament game. SJ-O, which had a 10-game winning streak ended by […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Four St. Joseph-Ogden athletes earned medals in Saturday’s finals of the boys’ IHSA Class 1A state track and field meet at Charleston. The four teamed up for a seventh-place finish in the 400-meter sprint relay. Sophomore Brady Buss was joined by three seniors, Kaleb Harshbarger, Dwight Colvin […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com There’s a big world out there. And Lynette Kohlbecker, a retiring Language Arts teacher at Heritage High School, wanted her students to savor it. A Tuscola native, Kohlbecker went to Korea with her husband, Tim, for two years after she graduated from college. The couple then moved […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Playing its 37th game of the season on Wednesday, St. Joseph-Ogden’s baseball team scored its highest number of runs since the second game of the year. SJ-O crushed Bloomington Central Catholic, 16-8, in a Class 2A sectional semifinal game on the Saints’ field at McGraw Park. BCC […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Missed opportunities were the main story of St. Joseph-Ogden’s sectional softball semifinal game on Wednesday. Against an opponent it had beaten earlier in the season, SJ-O left the bases loaded in three different innings and dropped a 4-2 decision to Stanford Olympia in the Olympia Class 2A […]
