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 […]
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CCFPD to celebrate International Dark Sky Park at Middle Fork
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 […]
Commentary: The American worth fighting for
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 […]
SJO Baseball falls to Tuscola in Sectional
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 […]
Buss, Harshbarger, Colvin and Gaskin take 7th place at IHSA State Meet
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 […]
Lynette Kolbecker: “You have a golden opportunity to just be the person you want to be with me.”
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 […]
SJ-O Baseball to play for Sectional Championship Saturday
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 […]
Spartan Softball season ends with loss to Stanford Olympia
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 […]
Homer, Ogden and Royal to host Memorial Day Services
Homer, Ogden and Royal will host Memorial Day Service on May 27, 2019. The ceremonies will include a service, food and community. May 26 RoyalThe Royal American Legion will host a Memorial Day Service on Sunday May 26 at Kopmann cemetery at 10 and then in Royal at 11. This […]
Boy Scouts honor Veterans at Mount Olive and Patterson Cemetary
BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com The chilly and windy conditions of Wednesday night were not enough to keep members of St. Joseph’s Boy Scout Troop 40, Pack 40 and Holy Cross’ Pack 9 inside. The 30 boys knew that the conditions they faced were nothing compared to the conditions those they were […]