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 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Adam Rose and Nicholas Boggs drove in runs on Tuesday to support the two-hit pitching of Crayton Burnett, who shut out Urbana, 2-0, for the second time this baseball season. Rose also stole two bases. SJ-O was limited to four hits. Burnett struck out 10 and walked […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Savannah Nevitt, Kylie Neuman and Kerrigan Shafer had two hits apiece for the Comets, who dropped a 7-4 Vermilion Valley Conference softball decision at home against Bismarck-Henning on Monday. Neuman and Kennedy Price each drove in two runs. Neuman suffered the loss, pitching all seven innings. She […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Mason Wyant pitched a five-inning one-hit shutout on Tuesday as Villa Grove/Heritage overpowered visiting Schlarman Academy, 21-0. Wyant fanned 11 and walked one. He is the team’s fourth pitcher with a shutout victory this spring. Kane Davison and Carson Howard paced the 15-hit attack with three hits […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Vietnam veteran Gearld Hennigh said the trip he took earlier this month was aptly named. The Land of Lincoln Honor Flight lived up to its name. “It was absolutely astonishing what they did for us,” Hennigh said. “It was unbelievable. I was honored to be there.” The […]
“How was your day?” It’s a common question among family members at the end of a work or school day. But that simple greeting means so much more for Middletown Elementary second-grade teacher Gay Fritz and her daughter Allison Fritz, who is in her first year of teaching science at […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com The Villa Grove/Heritage Hawks reached double figures in runs scored for the fifth time in their last seven baseball games on Thursday, overpowering Fisher 15-2 in Fisher. Mason Wyant pitched a five-inning four-hitter. He walked two and struck out five. Nick Coffin was the catalyst of an […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Elijah Harden, Lucas Huchel and Isaiah Ruch each collected three hits, but the Comets dropped a 10-7 decision at Attica, Ind., in the first game of a baseball doubleheader on Saturday. Brady Howard and Josh Young finished with two hits apiece. Six of the team’s 13 hits […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden’ s Crayton Burnett struck out 11 batters in six innings and was the winning pitcher in his second baseball shutout of the spring on Thursday, a 6-0 decision in Bloomington against Central Catholic. Offensively, Burnett, Drew Coursey and Sam Wesley collected two hits apiece. Kaden […]
