The high school track season is nearing completion and will wrap up for Beardstown with the boys’ IHSA Class 2A State Championship Meet at Eastern Illinois University. Senior Marcos Laurencio will be representing the Tigers after placing eighth and beating the qualifying time in the 300 hurdles last Wednesday at the Class 2A Sectional in Metamora.
The PORTA-AC Central High School softball team lost to Stanford Olympia in the second round of regional play to end their season with an 11-13 record. The Lady Bluejays took down arch-rival Athens in the opening round, winning 5 to 4 on the Warriors homefield.
After falling just short the last two seasons, the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia High School softball team are Regional Champions. The Lady Trojans beat Payson-Seymour in a 1-0 thriller last Saturday at home for their first regional title in thirteen years.
By Daryl Vermillion, pastor
This past winter has been a tough one for me, especially February and March. Three trips to the hospital in Springfield plus two ambulance rides does take its toll on anyone, but especially senior citizens.
In every town, in every state in the nation there are those people whose nature, whose characteristics, whose persona defies description; They are people who simply cannot be “pigeonholed” as being this or that. In Beardstown, Harold “Squire” Tyson was one such man.
Meadow was born in the spring of 2022 and she came to the humane society pregnant and had a litter of kittens in the spring of 2024. She is the sweetest girl who loves to explore and to be pettted.
CASSCOMM, known for its dependable local support and robust fiber optic broadband services throughout Central Illinois, is proud to announce the expansion of its fiber optic network to Meredosia. This upgrade will provide residents and businesses in the village with access to symmetrical internet speeds of up to 1 Gigabit and beyond.
Crime Stoppers of Morgan, Scott, and Cass Counties has added another anonymous tip submission option to the program.
The Beardstown High School girls’ soccer team will be playing for a Regional Title for the second straight season. The seventh-seeded Lady Tigers pulled off a huge first round upset last Friday, notching a 2 to 1 win over number two-seeded Monmouth-Roseville at their place to advance to the title game.