A four-year varsity career puts high school athletes on a path where they could potentially score 1,000 points during their time on the basketball court. Oakwood’s Kylie Neuman began her basketball career at Oakwood High School as a freshman on the varsity team. As an underclassmen, she contributed 12.1 points […]
Candy Foster is known throughout East Central Illinois for his velvet voice, contagious smile and his ability to get people out of their seats and onto the dance floor. But what many of his followers may not know is that he played a local role in the civil rights movement […]
Success of schools often relies on the backing of a community. Area residents will have an opportunity to support the Prairieview-Ogden School District on March 2 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. as the PVO PTO hosts its spring consignment sale that Saturday. The sale will be held at Prairieview-Ogden South […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Oakwood/Salt Fork qualified eight of its wrestlers for the Class 1A sectional and St. Joseph-Ogden had six wrestlers continue their seasons in Saturday’s regional meet at Unity High School. The Comets had two regional champions, sophomore Gage Reed (113 pounds) and junior Caide Borden (285 pounds). Other […]
SJO Daily also reached out to St. Joseph Middle School’s seventh-grade boys’ basketball coach Wes Miller for an interview, too. With the quick turnaround of the Sectional Championship and the Elite 8 game on Friday, we were not able to get that interview in time. Whether the Panthers win or […]
There’s something lovely about being out in the country. Maybe it’s less traffic. Maybe it’s the fields. Maybe it’s the quiet. And maybe it’s the surprises. Visitors making their way to the Kickapoo State Recreation Area have noticed a little treasure at 9912 E 1980 North Rd just outside of […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometdaily.com Chance Izard hit 5 of 9 three-point shots on Tuesday and scored a team-high 15 points as St. Joseph-Ogden posted a 51-49 win at Monticello. Izard was joined in double figures by two teammates. Joel Orcutt had 14 points and Jack Cook had 12 points. Cook pulled […]
Mitchell Whitlock just wants to be there for people. The St. Joseph-Ogden sophomore found that one way he could make that happen was when he decided to join the St. Joseph Middle School cheerleading squad as an eighth-grade student. After watching his two older sisters and cousin, Alyssa Whitlock, who […]
The Champaign County Forest Preserve wants you to know more about local owl species. Spots are still open for the “Owl Prowl” at the Homer Lake Interpretative Center on February 8 and 20 from 6 to 7:30. The program on Feb. 8 is open to all ages while the program […]
When Rob Dalhaus III graduated from St. Joseph-Ogden High School in 2007, he just knew he wanted to help people. “I had this idea in college, and I know it’s kind of cliche, but I want to help people,” Dalhaus said. But after graduating from Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Ind., […]
