A long-time Intercity rivalry highlights Week 5 of the high school football season.… MORE
Category Archives: High School Sports
WJBC Intercity Football Player of the Week: Sept. 21, 2015
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to present its Intercity Football Player of the Week.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Sept. 21, 2015
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is again proud to present the High School Athletes of the Week.… MORE
U-High wins week four, everyone else waits
The Pioneers were the only intercity team to pick up a win on Friday of week four of the WJBC High School Football Extravaganza (YNIS) By: Austin Duncan Mother Nature had more playing time than most high school football teams in central Illinois causing havoc in week four of WJBC High School Football Extravaganza. U-High…… MORE
Saints, Spartans highlight Week 4 high school football
Central Catholic plays the only Intercity road football game on Friday, but the trip is only a few miles as Olympia hosts the Saints in the featured match-up of the WJBC Country Financial High School Extravaganza.… MORE
WJBC Intercity Football Player of the Week: Sept. 14, 2015
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to present its Intercity Football Player of the Week.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Sept. 14, 2015
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is again proud to present the High School Athletes of the Week.… MORE
WJBC Intercity Football Player of the Week: Sept. 8, 2015
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to present its Intercity Football Player of the Week.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Sept. 8, 2015
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is again proud to present the High School Athletes of the Week.… MORE
U-High, BHS fall, CCHS victorious
The WJBC High School Football Extravaganza week two had just two games play to completion.… 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…