By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Twenty eight years. Three hundred and twenty six games. Those are some of the numbers in Dick Duval’s football coaching career at St. Joseph-Ogden. His tenure, which ended with his retirement following the 2015 season, included spending approximately 2,600 days at the football field, whether for […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com Historical dates don’t always reflect reality. For example, children learn that slavery was abolished in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But, because of the lack of Union soldiers in the Confederate state of Texas, approximately 250,000 persons were still enslaved, according to the […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com It may not be a need that is always seen or known, but hard times are everywhere. Even in his first year as Student Resource Officer at St. Joseph-Ogden High School, Champaign County Sheriff’s Deputy Shawn Hallett recognized that some students may not have everything they […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph, Ill. – St. Joseph-Ogden High School football captains went through a type of on-the-job training this summer. As has been the Spartans’ custom for nearly a decade, long-time assistant coach Marshall Schacht coordinates a series of summer team-bonding and team-building activities. From within the […]
