Illinois State Senator Jil Tracy requested a Senate Resolution in memory of Roy Roberts that was adopted on October 26, 2023 and will remain a permanent part of the record of the 103rd Illinois General Assembly. Tracy contacted Roberts’ daughter, Ann Chelette, Beardstown, regarding the resolution.
The Cass County Courthouse will be closed on the following dates: Thursday, November 23 in observance of Thanksgiving; and Monday, December 25 in observance of Christmas Day.
Illinois became a state in 1818, but was still very much a frontier state in the 1830s.
Illinois’ rough and tumble frontier status did not deter Rev. Philander Chase from planning to open a theological seminary on the prairie. As the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, Chase was in a position to turn his dream into a reality.
Ashley Gil launches a three-pointer in front of an excited Tiger bench. | Kylynn Maltby pressures the inbounds pass while Brandy Mendoza breaks to make the steal for the Tigers.
Lately we have experienced some pretty amazing growth at our church. We have been praying for younger people and couples to come for a couple of years. And God has been steadily bringing them to us! This week we baptized four people at our church! We are thankful for each one of them. Thankful that God broke into their lives and revealed his love for them and that they,
Following up a record setting season in what they recorded as an all-time school best win total with twenty-six, the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia high school volleyball team placed four players on the Western Illinois Valley Conference All-Conference Team. Even better news is that all four players will be returning next season for the Trojans with two of them being just sophomores.
It was off to Scott County for four days of basketball in the Junior High School version of the Winchester Tournament for the Triopia Trojan junior high boys’ basketball team last week. When the smoke cleared, both the seventh and the eighth-grade teams had won two games and lost two games. Both teams handled Carrollton and North Greene rather easily and lost to West Central and Brown County with the seventh graders dropping two thrillers.
The Virginia-Triopia Junior High girls basketball teams wrapped up their regular seasons with three games last week. The season ended entirely for the seventh graders when they lost in the opening round of the Class 2A regional 25 to 14 to Mendon Unity at Mt. Sterling.
Earlier this month, Loren Hamilton, Coordinator for Crime Stoppers of Morgan, Scott and Cass Counties, attended the Fortieth annual National Training conference that was held in Denver, Colorado. Hamilton is pictured here with other attendees from Region Seven. Region Seven covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio . Hamilton is a former lead Director for Region Seven
A busy week of basketball did not produce the results the Virginia Junior High boys’ basketball team was hoping for last week as both the 7th and 8th grade teams lost two out of three games. There was some solace in the fact that the only win for each squad came against Cass County rival AC-Central.