By Christopher Johnson REPORTER The Girls’ Basketball State Championship Tournament begins well ahead of the March 3, final four matches for area familiars Winnebago and Pecatonica. Seeding for the Class 1A and 2A “winner-take-all” invitational will be managed by a select committee of statisticians. That should occur early next week. […]
The Durand FFA’s Kiss a Pig Project was started to give back to the community but also benefit agriculture in the community. In 2020, the FFA raised funds to purchase a Grain Rescue Tube for the Durand Fire Department and in 2021 the project was not done at a large […]
By Christopher Johnson REPORTER Saturday’s showdown with the Orangeville Lady Broncos was an important one for the Pecatonica Lady Indians. Elevated position within the Northwest Upstate Illini was at stake. Coming off a stretch that brought to a close the smoother flow of the early days of the 2021-22 winter […]
By Christopher Johnson REPORTER For the first time this season the Winnebago Lady Indians scorecard reflected something other than a win. It came at the hands of a well-seasoned team from the Illinois Heartland. Peoria Notre Dame utilized invasive defense and pushed the Lady Indians out of shot range on […]
By Christopher Johnson REPORTER On Wednesday, Jan. 19, the Pecatonica Township Board will gather in regular session off Reed Street for the first time in 2022 and will open the gates into the home stretch of the soon-to-expire fiscal cycle. Tip-off for the taxpayer-funded monthly get-together is scheduled for 6pm. […]
Dr. Baker, principal of Simon Elementary School in Winnebago, recently trained Scouts BSA Troop 5 scouts for CPR certification. She spent several hours with the scouts to prepare them for an emergency. Troop 5 has 100 percent of their scouts CPR certified through the American Heart Association. Troop 5 serves […]
By Christopher Johnson REPORTER Understanding what a Declared State of Emergency is something that has been discussed at recent meetings of the Pecatonica Village Board. This past Tuesday, a vote to continue the previously established State of Emergency was once again taken and as recent history has indicated, it wasn’t […]
By Christopher Johnson REPORTER If standing within a specific conference correlated with the overall win-loss total of each program, the Pecatonica Lady Indians would be in first place in the NUIC, perhaps by a full game or better. That’s not how conference records come together though. At 9-2, Pecatonica’s loss […]
By Christopher Johnson REPORTER Lady Indians stand on top in Northern Upstate Over the past week of play the Pecatonica Lady Indians have secured a 4-0 record supported by an offensive display that has seen the team averaging over 50 points a night and winning by double-digits as a result. […]