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High school football special section 2024: Salt Fork
Aug. 29—What to know about Salt Fork before the Storm kick off its season Friday night at Westville: Their quarterback is ...senior Jameson Remole, who's going into his third year as the starting signal-caller. Salt Fork has become known for its stout defense in recent years, so Remole's stability at the most important position on the field hasn't gotten the recognition it should. Coach Joe ...
Urbana-Champaign's 'diversity of discrimination' with scholarships violates Civil Rights Act: Law professor
A federal complaint accuses the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign of having 42 “illegal" scholarships that “discriminate" based on sex or race of applicants.
Roundup: Prairie Central held in check by Tolono defense; EPG, M-R triumph
Rounding up Friday night high school football games in the Pontiac area: Tolono (Unity) 32, Prairie Central 13 At Fairbury, Tolono (Unity) was able to keep all-conference running back Hudson Ault in check in chalking up a 32-13 victory over host Prairie Central Friday night at Lewis Field. Unity scored three times in...
Unit 4 responds to reports of late registration, students without classrooms
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) — Rising complaints in Facebook parent groups say that multiple students have remained unregistered for the school year, already two weeks in at Champaign Unit 4 School District. Registration for new students — called the Student Assignment Process — ran from February 26th to May 1st....
Lewis Leads Springfield High in Win Over Champaign Central
Springfield High hosted Champaign Central on Saturday evening at Memorial Stadium after the game got postponed due to the storms on Friday. The Senators picked up the 44-12 victory as Armanze Lewis rushed for four touchdowns in the victory. Springfield travels to MacArthur in week two.
Principal of Urbana’s new multilingual school: ‘It’s really refreshing’
URBANA – About 16 % of the 300,000 English learners in Illinois are taking public school classes to become bilingual in both their first language and English. Few of those schools are fully multilingual. One is in Champaign and after years of debate, Yankee Ridge Multilingual Elementary School opened in Urbana earlier this month.
PBL High School girls cross country wins Saber Corn Invitational
1. Paxton-Buckley-Loda, 46; 2. Monticello, 58; 3. Oakwood, 78; 4. St. Thomas More, 84; 5. Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond, 91; 6. Rantoul, 140. 1. Macie Owen (MON) 20:29; 2. Ruby Burton (ALAH) 20:40.69; 3. Taylor Mabry (MON) 20:47.56; 4. Kyla Franckey (PBL) 21:07.73; 5. Maddison DeOrnellas (PBL) 21:41.07; 6. Audrey McCoy (PBL) 21:43.64; 7. Taylor Wells (OAK) 21:44.83; 8. Callie Richardson (OAK) 21:45.54; 9. Kimberly Krutsinger (ALAH) 21:59.26; 10. Kayla Wernigk (ARM) 22:39.13.
Grainger College of Engineering celebrating five years next week
The Grainger College of Engineering is celebrating five years of their namesake next week, running September 3-6 on campus at the University of Illinois. The college was renamed in recognition of the $100M gift from the Grainger Foundation and in honor of distinguished alumnus William W. Grainger (ECE, 1919). For the celebration, they’ll have a few open house opportunities, panels, opportunities to meet the deans, and more. Just like Engineering Open House in April, this is an opportunity to check out a huge part of campus making big impacts worldwide.
Open Season: Area prep football teams set to hit the turf tonight
St. Joseph - Coy Taylor returns to the gridiron tonight for the Spartans. During his junior year, Taylor hauled in 95 passes for 1342 receiving yards and averaged 122 yards per game. Look for the senior wide receiver to make big plays tonight in St. Joseph-Ogden's season opener on the road at Monticello. Kickoff is set for 7 pm.
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