SJO Daily

Springfield, IL – The Mahomet Aquifer Task Force released its final report to the Illinois General Assembly and Governor this week, outlining a plan to address the ongoing issue of maintaining clean drinking water from the Mahomet Aquifer.  The report identifies potential and current contamination threats to the water quality, […]

When Will Page was three years old he was diagnosed with leukemia. He received chemo every single day for three and a half years. “As you can imagine, for someone who was really too young to understand what was happening there was a great a deal of fear and stress […]

By FRED KRONER fred@sjodaily.com The pre-tournament seeds worked out to perfection in the Toyota of Danville boys’ basketball classic at St. Joseph-Ogden High School. The Friday pairings will feature the two 4-0 teams in the round-robin event playing for the championship when the host Spartans take on Cissna Park. The […]

Sometimes, families in the St. Joseph area need a little help. That is where the St. Joseph Food Pantry comes in. Years ago, the ministers from all the churches in St. Joseph met and decided the churches needed to work together on a food pantry rather than have separate ones, […]

By FRED KRONER fred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden’s boys’ basketball team posted wins in its first three games of the Toyota of Danville Classic in the Spartans’ gym. Playing on back-to-back days, SJ-O handled Chicago Longwood, 72-64, on Friday. The Spartans doubled the score on Oakwood, 56-28, in a Saturday matinee and […]

When St. Joseph residents received their sewer bills this week, they were in for a surprise. The amount they owed the village was higher than they initially anticipated. For the December bill, St. Joseph residents were billed for three months worth of sewer service instead of their usual two months. […]