April 30, 2026 Local Stories in and Around St. Joseph, Illinois

St. Joseph Middle School 8th Grade Honor Roll

Barrowman, Kylie

Barrowman, Lexie

Blackburn-Kelley, Timera

Blackburn-Kelley, Timothy

Carlson, Jacob

Chaudhary, Rudra

Clark, Joshua

Ericksen, Katherine

Getty, Camden

Haley, William

Hardimon, Erica

Houchens, Bryson

Huckstadt, Amelia

Jolley, Kaelyn

Kasper, Sophia

Kelso, Samantha

Lackey, Alexis

McDaniel, Michael

Midkiff, Ava

Mohr, Jackson

Oleynichak, Brennan

Preston, Grace

Retz, Lance

Rosenthal, Logan

Slowikowski, Jacek

Smith, Landon

Spain, Karleigh

Taylor, Carlee

Van Meenen, Hunter

Williams, Chevy

By Nora Maberry November 2, 2021

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Elections, Schools

Get to know Dan Thompson

March 21, 2025 Nora Maberry

Dan Thompson is running for St. Joseph Grade School Board. What motivated you to run for school board? I was...

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Heritage Junior High Honor Roll

January 19, 2023 Nora Maberry

HONOR ROLL Heritage Junior High has compiled the list of honor roll students for the second quarter. Astudent must have...

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Graduation main address by Flannery McCorkle

May 19, 2021 Nora Maberry

Good afternoon, Spartans As I look out at my classmates, I feel truly blessed to have been a part of this...

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Sexton uses love of music as motivation

May 1, 2019 Nora Maberry

Joshua Sexton loves band so much he plans on continuing it in college. “It’s one of my passions,” he said....

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St. Joseph Middle School 7th grade honor roll

April 7, 2022 Nora Maberry

7th Grade Honor Roll Bello, Abigail Benoit, Zachary Canamore, Willis Colvin, Jaxson Ditchfield, Nickolas Downs, Justin Ennis, Jameson Gaines, Leah...

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SJO hopeful to keep in-person learning through end of semester

December 9, 2020 Nora Maberry

Six staff members at St. Joseph-Ogden High School are currently in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 or being a...

Athletics, Life, People, Schools

‘There is no one more deserving of this honor’

June 26, 2020 Nora Maberry

Glenn Fisher loves St. Joseph-Ogden High School. For decades, Fisher’s main concern was that the facilities and sports fields at...

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St. Joseph Grade School updates parents on COVID concerns

August 31, 2021 Nora Maberry

Fifty-five students from St. Joseph Grade School are in quarantine for exposure to COVID-19. Forty-two of those students are related...

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Maxey to step aside, but ‘SJO is a better place’ because of former SRO’s role at school

August 15, 2019 Nora Maberry

Alicia Maxey, like many other high school students, didn’t exactly know what she wanted her future job to entail when...

Life, Schools

Kids Say….

April 5, 2019 Nora Maberry

Every week we ask five students from a local school to answer a question on a worksheet. This week the...

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Senior Homecoming Court Spotlight… Bailey Dowling

September 27, 2019 Nora Maberry

St. Joseph-Ogden Senior Bailey Dowling is honored to be on the Homecoming Court. “It’s pretty cool being on homecoming court...

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SJO honors night recipients announced

May 27, 2019 Nora Maberry

The following students were honored in mid-May by St. Joseph-Ogden High School during the high school honors night. • EIU...

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