Strong Start for Virginia Girls Basketball
The junior high girls’ basketball teams for Virginia-Triopia are off to great starts to their seasons with the 7th graders out of the gates at 12-0 and...
Kaitlyn Copley
Virginia School District receives donation
At the Virginia School Board meeting held Monday, October 21, the board accepted a $100,000 check from Karen McClure for repairs to the track. McClure...
Principals recognized during board meeting
During the October Beardstown School Board meeting, Superintendent Brent O’Daniell read a proclamation received from Governor JB Pritzker naming October...
Winter coat giveaway this Saturday
A Winter Coat Giveaway will be held beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, October 26 at the First United Methodist Church, 415 S. State Street, Beardstown. These...
Beardstown Police News
Elizabeth Perez Guilbeaux, 28, Beardstown, was ticketed for disregarding a yield sign on Oct. 20. She was given notice to appear.Gilbert F. Withrow, 87...
One woman’s journey through breast cancer
Most everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer awareness month. We all hear the statistics of how one in eight women will get invasive breast cancer...
Schuyler County Pet of the Week
Coal is a lab mix and he is around 8 months old. He loves to play and run around the yard. He gets along well with other dogs and he is very food...
Prairie Rows Quilting and Crafting opens in Virginia
Eric and Carrie Whitford drove 2,500 miles in a freezing ice and snow storm with Eric driving the largest U-Haul truck they could rent with a car hauler...
Reader challenges tariffs opinion
Dear Editor,Some of the rants in this column recently have been bizarre and simply cannot go unchallenged, but I’ll endeavor to be forthright. Tariffs...
Torrijos-Gil qualifies for State Cross Country
Congratulations to Uriel Torrijos-Gil, of the Beardstown Middle School Cross Country team, on his seventh-place finish at the Sectional Meet last...