Mosquitoes are winged pests no one wants to have around, except for bats and other animals that eat them for dinner. The World Mosquito Program says mosquitoes can spread a number of nasty diseases, including malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika.
The Alzheimer’s Support group will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 13 Beardstown Health and Rehab (old hospital), 8306 St. Lukes Drive, Beardstown. Please enter through the front door.
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Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) hosted a free, five-day Career Quest Camp, “RoboQuest,” June 23-27 at Beardstown Junior High School. Thirteen incoming eighth grade students participated in the camp, which focused on robotics.
Summer is marked by hot and humid conditions. After all, the band The Lovin' Spoonful didn't sing, "Hot town, summer in the city.
After a colder than average winter that brought deep freezes to much of Illinois, local gardeners might be in for a surprisingly productive summer. While residents may have dealt with an unusually brisk winter, those frosty days were quietly working behind the scenes, especially for fruit trees, leafy greens, and hardy herbs.
Buddy is a 56-pound, English pointer who spent his life hunting and is now retired. He is 13 and still has a lot of energy.
A tough 1 to 0 loss to Rushville eliminated the Tri-County Little League 11/12 year old baseball team from District play. They won their first game of the tourney 10 to 7 over Brown County, then fell to Beardstown 12 to 2 before the Rockets ended their postseason run.
The local Pony League has made their All-Star selections for the 2025 season with players from Beardstown, Triopia and Rushville representing the area. This year’s squad will be composed of DeWade Gaffney, Jack Dewitt, Tucker Sorrells, Liam Skinner, Ashten Guzman, Jonah Behymer and Landon Yost of Beardstown; Lane Fricke, Tate York, and Ben Meyer of Triopia; and Jenson Demoss and Ashten Gomez of Rushville.
There were just two games on the local docket for Pony League last week with two Beardstown teams, Fischer Mowing and Prestige World Travel playing a doubleheader last Wednesday. Prestige got the sweep to move to 10-2 on the year while Fischer’s fell to 4-7.