BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com If we were acquaintances and I told you that I grew up in Indiana, you might make a few assumptions. The first thing that you might assume is that I grew up in a rural area. That would be correct; a few of them, in fact. […]
Residential home sale activity in the Champaign County area rose by double digits during the month of December as more buyers were confident that now is the time to make a home purchase. The Champaign County Association of REALTORS® reports a total of 211 residential homes were sold in December, […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com Being able to play basketball has been a means to something bigger for St. Joseph-Ogden‘s Payton Cain: building connections. Cain started playing sports as a young boy with his dad and brother. “(My dad) passed that love for all sports down to me and my brother,” […]
*photo is a Jan. 2019 document that kickstarted the St. Joseph Community Sports Complex vision. It is not a final document. BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com What’s the next move for St. Joseph? Jim Page and a committee of four volunteers are looking into how the development of the St. Joseph […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. After the 2018-2019 St. Joseph-Ogden High School girls’ basketball team placed third in the IHSA 2A State tournament, Hannah Dukeman set her sights on leading the Spartans as point guard during her senior year. But by the time […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com A St. Joseph Citizen’s Group has been created to start a discussion on the potential of creating a Community Center in St. Joseph. They have been tasked with working with the Village to determine the use, design, location and management of the Community Center. To gain […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Against an opponent it had lost to 14 days earlier, the Hawks salvaged a 55-54 opening-round win on Friday in the Lincoln Prairie Conference Tournament at Arcola. Blake Smith matched his season’s high with 22 points. His total included hitting four three-point shots. Logan Nohren scored […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Aliya Holloman scored 16 points and Kyleigh Block added 12 on Saturday, but VG/H was unable to keep up with top-seeded Tri-County and suffered a 62-49 loss in the championship game of the Lincoln Prairie Conference Tournament at Villa Grove. The Titans led 16-12 after one […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The state-ranked Comets, led by individual champion Gage Reed, placed fifth in the 18-school Randy Bowman Invitational at LeRoy on Saturday. Meet champion LeRoy accumulated 156 points. Oakwood, ranked 11th in Class 1A by The Illinois Best Weekly, amassed 119 ½ points. Reed was the 113-pound […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Comets’ streak of consecutive Vermilion County Tournament basketball championships ended at three when Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin recorded a 33-19 win on Friday in the finals at Danville’s Palmer Arena. This year was the fourth in a row that the same teams played in the County Tournament championship […]
