WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
Category Archives: High School Sports
19 NCHS student-athletes to sign Wednesday
Normal Community High School has scheduled a signing ceremony at the school on Wednesday as 19 student athletes plan to formally declare their college intentions.… MORE
State Farm Holiday Classic announces scholarship winnners
The Classic Tournament, Inc., which organizes one of the largest, coed high school holiday basketball tournaments in the nation called the State Farm Holiday Classic, has selected four winners as recipients of the 2016 Holiday Classic Scholarship award.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: May 2, 2016
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
NCHS’ Grimes to retire as softball coach
Normal Community High School softball coach Bob Grimes will be retiring at the end of the 2016 softball season.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: April 25, 2016
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
LeRoy’s Chastain to attend Loyola
LeRoy All-State basketball standout Matt Chastain has announced he will attend Loyola.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: April 18, 2016
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
4 Central Catholic student athletes declare college plans
Four Central Catholic Saints declared their college intentions on Wednesday.… MORE
U-High’s Fitzgerald receives Fulbright grant to teach in England, McDowell named basketball coach
Andrew McDowell has been promoted to Head Boys’ Basketball Coach at University High School as Bob Fitzgerald has resigned to accept a six-month Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching grant to the United Kingdom.… 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…