photo by Claire Daly It’s every ballerina’s dream to dance in iconic productions such as Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, but not every ballerina gets to. As hundreds of spectators take their seats at the historic Virginia Theater for the Champaign-Urbana Ballet’s production of Swan Lake on […]
The St. Joseph-Ogden High School Golf Committee is accepting entries for a 4-person Golf Scramble on June 22 at Willow Pond Golf Course in Rantoul. With an entry fee of $100 per person, golfers will enjoy 18-holes of golf with a cart, food, beverages and will have opportunities to win […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden’s softball program is celebrating its 40th year of existence this season. The sport was first offered in the fall of 1979 with an abbreviated schedule of 12 games. As improbable as it seems, the current 2019 team has a link to the inaugural team. The […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Kaden Jacobs’ seventh-inning double delivered the game-winning run on Saturday as St. Joseph-Ogden pulled out a 2-1 baseball victory over IVC in Chillicothe in the first game of an Illini Prairie Conference game. IVC posted an 8-6 win in the second game. SJ-O is 15-6-2 overall and […]
*This is the first installment of a series of articles that will focus on life’s hardships and the wisdom Deb Braunig has gained as she’s navigated through what sometimes does not make sense. By Deb Braunig Suffocating fear . . . paralyzing judgementalism . . . harsh betrayal . . […]
By Scott MillisPastor at Living Word Family Churchscott@lwfstjoe.org When I was in college, I took a class called “Religion 101”. I took it because I thought it was a survey course on world religions, which I thought would be useful. But what it was, in fact, was a philosophy course […]
Fifth and sixth grade students at Oakwood Grade School recently enjoyed spending time together at the school’s spring dance. But they also impacted the community in a big way. As the eleven sixth-grade girls who suggested the dance prepared to host their peers, they also wanted to find a way […]
By Ben Chapmanbenbart.chapman@gmail.com Machine. Hegemony. Establishment. Deep State. The Back Room. Whatever you call the ominous forces that corrode our politics and entrench corruption, I’m sick of it. And from what I’ve heard, many other Illinoisans are, too. We’re sick of rich donors and well-funded committees deciding who wins elections. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com The message is getting through loud and clear. Brianna Suits and her peers at St. Joseph-Ogden are talking about it. So are Mahomet-Seymour teen-agers Addi Jones and Avery Seaman. Scott’s Law is one they carry in their minds as they operate vehicles. Suits learned about it in […]
