Jade Hatton’s fourth grade class of published authors had some brave volunteers who attended the May 19th Viginia School Board meeting to read excerpts from their book to the board members and guests. Each child wrote a separate page about what they would do if the adults would suddenly disappear from the earth.
Former Beardstown softball standout Marlee Brown is headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division Two World Series with the Illinois Central College softball team. The fourth-seeded Cougars (33-21) beat top-seed Mineral Area in back-to-back games to capture the Central District Tournament championship, making for the program’s first national tournament appearance since 2022.
Loren Hamilton, Coordinator for Crime Stoppers of Morgan, Scott, and Cass Counties, was recently reelected President of the Illinois State Crime Stoppers Association.
The Cass County Board approved to tentatively amend the 2024-2025 budget for the Highway Fund and the Public Safety Fund at its regular May 12 meeting. Eric Snellgrove voted no, with all other mebers voting in favor.
A 1-2 week by the PORTA-AC Central High School softball team has the Lady Bluejays sitting at 8-11 going into the final week of the regular season. The Jays lost conference games to Auburn and Stanford Olympia while taking down Pawnee.
The community of Virginia today announced that CASSCOMM was recently named a Smart Rural CommunitySM provider by NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association. NTCA’s Smart Communities are powered by innovative rural broadband providers that believe that by being connected to fiber broadband we achieve more together.
The Beardstown High School baseball team went 1-1 last week, with their victory coming over Cass County rival Triopia by a score of 9 to 5 last Tuesday at home. On Thursday, the Tigers fell to Quincy High School 8 to 3 at home in a game that was called after six innings due to rain.
At May 6th Beardstown City Council meeting, the sitting council had three items on the agenda to address. The first two items were TIF related.
Teachers of Tomorrow reports the period of recognition dates back to the 1950’s when Arkansas teacher Mattye Whyte Woodridge began a movement to honor the profession. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt pushed Congress to officially establish it in 1953 but at the time it was only one day.
By Michelle Carty