Beardstown Regional Flood Prevention Disrict meeting is set for 10 a.m. Thursday, January 4, 2024 at the Beardstown Sanitary District in Beardstown.
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The Cass County Courthouse will be closed Monday, January 15 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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A-C Central Community Unit School District No.262 will hold its regular Board of Education meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 in the Board Conference Room, 501 W. Buchanan Street in Ashland.
Monday - Fried chicken, mashed potatoes & chicken gravy, peas, pears, bread, milk. Tuesday - Salisbury steak in gravy, broccoli, applesauce, rice pilaf, bread, milk. Wednesday - BBQ chicken breast, egg noodles, roasted potatoes, mixed veggies, mandarin oranges, bread, milk.
Illinois is a state, but “the Illinois” only can describe the great river that runs 271 miles from its source to the Mississippi at Grafton.
It is not the nation’s longest river nor its widest. The slow moving Illinois is anything but wild – though she does have her moments.
The Illinois would not even be navigable for most of her length much of the year were it not for dredging and the locks and dams. In fact, long before the dams and the runoff from cities and untold acreage covered by asphalt and concrete, there were places were a man could easily walk from one bank to another during the summer months.
The Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team capped a busy week and the calendar year by participating in the prestigious Abe’s Rumble in Springfield. Earlier in the week the Tigers competed in a girls meet at Jacksonville and a Junior Varsity match at Springfield Southeast.
Layla Garcia and Daisy Gil took to the mats for the Lady Tigers in the very first Jacksonville Girls’ Tourney and had a very good day. Daisy finished in Fourth Place at 120 pounds while Layla won the Consolation Championship at 135 pounds.
For the first time in several years the Beardstown Tigers played on the fourth and final day of the Williamsville Holiday Tournament. The Tigers rebounded from a tough opening round loss to Delavan to beat Deer Creek Mackinaw and Illini Central and earn a birth in the Consolation Championship game. Beardstown ran completely out of gas in their fourth game in four days in the championship tilt and fell badly to Tremont.
Some rough shooting games combined with the usual tough competition of the Lady Tiger Classic led to the host school going 1-3 in the tourney. The Tigers had already faced all four teams they played, and the results were the same in each contest the second time around.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia Lady Trojans rode their defense to two wins in the Lady Tiger Classic knocking off Pleasant Hill-Western and Beardstown. The defense played well in losses to West Central and Havana but the Trojans could not overcome their offensive struggles against the Cougars and Ducks.
The Triopia Trojan boys’ basketball team picked up a win in the first round of the Waverly Tournament then ran up against two tough WIVC Conference foes to bow out with a 1-2 record. The Trojans used a huge third quarter in the opener to pull away from Tri-City and win 59 to 46. A poor third quarter hurt the Trojans in their 58 to 30 second round loss to West Central. The final quarter was the difference in their tourney ending 44 to 32 loss to Greenfield-Northwestern.
Beardstown Police Chief Martin Coad is shown with Beardstown’s three new police officers. The officers recently graduated from the Macon County Law Enforcement Training Academy in Decatur. Chief Coad said all three will begin their field training January 2. Out of the three, two of them are Beardstown’s first female officers.
A presentation of the 2023 levy was given by Superintendent Mekelle Neatherly. She discussed that for fiscal year 2025, the ISB will see less money coming in and the reimbursement rate for transportation cost was at 71 percent right now. The school district has four CD’s coming due, two in June and two in July. With little more discussion held and no public comment, the Truth in Taxation Hearing was adjourned and the regular board meeting started.