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Category Archives: High School Sports
Sports On Air: Extravaganza Week 1
The Friday night lights switch on for the first time in 2016 as high school football returns this evening.… MORE
IHSA pleased with rise in officiating numbers
The Illinois High School Association is preparing for another year of sports across all levels, but this year they’ll be doing so with a new member on its staff.… MORE
Meyer returns as head girls swimming and diving coach at U-High
By WJBC Staff NORMAL – Michelle Meyer has returned to the position of head girls’ swimming and diving coach at University High School, Normal. Meyer previously held this position from 1995 to 2000. Meyer has served as the Pioneers’ assistant girls’ swimming &diving coach since 2000 and the head boys’ swimming &diving coach since 1994.…… MORE
Normal West’s Loy set for Olympic swim trials
Normal Community West High School’s Andrew Loy is a member of West’s most recent graduating class. However, Loy hopes to become a member of another group soon as he has made the cut for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in swimming.… MORE
Chastain, Fulk named McLean County’s top student athletes
The Bloomington-Normal Area Sports Commission hosted the 9th annual State Farm Student-Athlete Recognition Banquet on Tuesday at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Bloomington.… MORE
Redbirds or Red Sox? Central Catholic’s Rave weighing options after being drafted
John Rave said he was at a friend’s house playing video games when his phone rang.… MORE
Normal West heads to 4A Championship
Seton Hall recruit Reganne Camp threw another ace of a game, as the Normal West Wildcats punched their ticket to the Class 4A State Title game… MORE
Normal West softball uses chemistry to get to state finals
Normal West High School softball coach April Schermann said a spring break trip to Tennessee at the beginning of the season was pivitol to the success and team chemistry for the Wildcats.… MORE
Finalists named for State Farm Student Athlete Recognition Banquet
More than a dozen local student athletes and several state championship teams will be among the honorees at the upcoming State Farm Student Athlete Recognition Banquet.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
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.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
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…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
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…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
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…