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Jim RossowOn Saturday in Champaign, swimmers and divers from four area high schools took to the pool for what has become an annual service project.
This year’s goal: Raise $500 fo...
We had the pool to ourselves.
That can happen when you take your kids to the pool in late August. By that point, most parents have been burned out from nearly three months of dail...
Jim RossowWe ask our reporters who cover Illini athletics to remain unbiased in their approach.
But we’ll cut Renee Anderson some slack.
“She wants the Illini to win — that’s all...
COLIN LIKAS clikas@news-gazette.comST. JOSEPH — Longtime St. Joseph-Ogden football coach Dick Duval died Thursday morning following an extended battle with pancreatic cancer.
He w...
By DEBRA PRESSEY dpressey@news-gazette.comURBANA — As more of their beds fill up with COVID-19 patients, administrators at local hospitals are appealing to the thousands of unvacci...
ST. JOSEPH — Abby McDonald was scared.
Sitting in her empty classroom at St. Joseph Grade School on a Sunday in early November nearly 13 years go, all sorts of thoughts wandered t...
WCIA — The IHSA Board of Directors voted Monday to adopt a new mask enforcement policy, in an effort to make sure member schools adhere to the state’s current Executive Order 85 ma...
CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA)– COVID-19 testing ramped up as K-12 students returned to class in the last couple of weeks.
So, does this mean testing sites have been busier?Early signs p...
By DEBRA PRESSEY dpressey@news-gazette.com CHAMPAIGN — From last-minute bus-schedule changes to pushback on the state mask mandate, area schools are opening for a new year with a h...
SPRINGFIELD — A capacity crowd packed into the Illinois State Board of Education room on Wednesday as many more stood outside the building to protest the state’s new indoor mask ma...
By Anthony Zilis azilis@news-gazette.comThe 275 sweet-potato plants she planted last year grew and grew, blanketing the barnyard the Mahomet-Seymour junior borrowed for the season ...
by Jeff D'Alessio Following a competitive national search for their next head of school last winter, Countryside’s board of directors came to realize that the best person for the j...
It’s a new day for learning in Unit 4,” new-to-town Superintendent SHELIA BOOZER (above) told Brian Barnhart on Monday’s “A Penny for Your Thoughts.”
Among their topics of convers...
By ETHAN SIMMONS esimmons@news-gazette.comURBANA — What kind of experience prepares you to become an officer of diversity, equity and inclusion?
At a glance, Brandon Caffey, assis...
The following information can be found in ISBE's Weekly Message from August 3, 2021. ISBE is launching a new interactive tool that allows students to make informed decisions about ...
The following information can be found in ISBE's Weekly Message from August 3, 2021. Scroll to the bottom of the newsletter for the Student Opportunities section for an information...
By DEBRA PRESSEY dpressey@news-gazette.com CHAMPAIGN — It was just two weeks ago that the Mahomet-Seymour school board approved a reopening plan.
Given the changing landscape duri...
Jeff D'Alessio is editor of The News-Gazette. His email is jdalessio@news-gazette.comShe coached Division I basketball at Nebraska and Western Illinois, directed development at Hab...