A match-up of teams tied for the runner-up spot in the Big Twelve Conference highlights the Week 8 WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza. … MORE
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A match-up of teams tied for the runner-up spot in the Big Twelve Conference highlights the Week 8 WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza. … MORE
Normal Community remained on top of the Big Twelve Conference, Normal West solidified a playoff berth and Bloomington led wire-to-wire in Friday night’s high school football action.… MORE
Week 7 of the high school football season presents a match-up of 4-2 teams driving toward possible playoff berths. … MORE
Normal Community took over in the second half on the way to a convincing win over rival Bloomington on Friday night at Bloomington’s Fred Carlton Field.… MORE
The top spot in the Big Twelve Conference is on the line as two long-time rivals meet in Week 6 of high school football on Friday night. … MORE
The Normal West Wildcats enjoyed a Homecoming fireworks show on Friday night. Then some pyrotechnics lit up the sky. … MORE
A pair of 3-1 teams near the top of the Big Twelve Conference hook up in the featured game of the WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza.… MORE
Week 4 of the high school football schedule contained several area games that went down to the final horn.… MORE
The second of three regular season Intercity match-ups takes center stage on Friday night in Week 4 of high school football.… MORE
High school football teams slogged through rainy conditions on Friday night to complete the first third of the high school football season. … MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…