Beardstown Area Special Athletes (BASA) competed this past weekend in Bloomington/Normal at the Special Olympics Illinois Summer Games 2025 with four competitors bringing home gold medals. Winning gold for BASA in the 400-meter walk (division 4) was Matthew Bradbury and Christopher Evans (division 5).
Virginia Masonic Lodge Past Master Billy Reynolds recently presented donations totaling $1,200 to Amy Fritsche, director of the Virginia Community Day Care. The donations were funded by the Masonic Lodge Cook-Out of June 14 and the Illinois Masonic Children’s Assistance Program.
Cass County Junior Show Queen for 2025 is Kenzie Meyer of Arenzville. The 2025 Miss Cass County Fair Queen is Kaylee Beck of Arenzville.
A-C Central School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 16 at the Board Conference Room, Unit Office, 501 W. Buchanan Street, Ashland.
Do you have extra produce from your garden this year?
The City of Beardstown was chartered in 1829, that means in just three and a half short years, the community will enter its Bicentennial year. An event celebrating the city’s 200th birthday will require extensive planning and coordination and, at this point, there is no committee.
Once again, the Cass County Star-Gazette won several awards at the Illinois Press Association (IPA) Convention in June.
Last week I had a sleep study done in Springfield. Allow me to clarify something right now.
Psalm 23:2-4; ”He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Once in a while we have emergencies pop up and that happened to this week’s scheduled Focus on Faith writer.
An article in this week’s paper brought to our attention about 2029 being Beardstown’s Bicentennial. Beardstown was chartered in 1829.