BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com During the last 18 months, The Nightcaps, a vocal-centric rock, pop, blues, and jazz group in Champaign-Urbana, has come a long way. Continuing through their long C-U music careers, Dody Cosmedy, Joni Dreyer, and Michele Osterbur-Smith were asked to perform with a dozen other C-U female […]
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“A Haunted Halloween” to raise funds for the Murelle Plotner Scholarship Fund
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com Anyone who met Murelle Plotner will not forget her. “She was very upfront, very vocal, outgoing and didn’t hold back,” Mary Derenne said. Plotner’s spunk is what has stuck with Derenne for over a decade. While Derenne was an employee at St. Joseph Middle School, word […]