The Beardstown Tigers closed the regular season with a very busy week, playing four games. Beardstown added a game to the final week when they joined the West Central Conference last year and this year a makeup game added another contest to the mix.
Dear Editor,I am writing in response to the ELCA pastor’s Focus on faith article in last week’s edition of your paper. She spoke of the sinfulness of...
There are a lot of misunderstandings about fasting. Everyone knows about the classic Roman Catholic Friday fish fry, a delicious affair.
February is known for Valentines Day, the day for flowers, chocolate, love and all the gush and mush between people who love each other. But what about the other twenty-seven days of the month? What can people do to show that they matter to them? Well, how’s about being kind.
Approximately 173 students from 11 area high schools competed in the regional Academic Challenge on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at Lincoln Land Community...
The Chandlerville Fire Department will host Guns & Hoses 7.0, Saturday, March 22, at Daugherty’s Pub, Chandlerville. Dinner will be from 5 p.m.
A-C Central’s 8th Grade Student of the Month for February is Bella Carwile. Bella is the daughter of Ronica Carwile and Kevin Carwile.
“Outlandish machines” designed by area fifth graders will be on display as Lincoln Land Community College hosts the 18th annual Springfield Area Engineer in the Classroom, a Rube Goldberg Showcase, on Saturday, March 1. The event will take place from 8:30 a.m.
The athletic co-op between A-C Central and PORTA School Districts will likely come to an end with the expiration of its current term in June. Long-running negotiations have failed to produce an agreement and a meeting between the two districts last month produced little progress.
In just three years of wrestling, Beardstown High School’s Garrett “Chunk” Dailey has come a long way on the mat. All the way to back-to-back...