Beecher City News

Area pastor Fr. Sylvano Pera had the answer for who was praying for all of the rains the area received this spring.A He said it was "EJ Water!" Father offered the quip at today's groundbreaking ceremony for a new water treatment plant for EJ Water Cooperative.A He also offered the invocation and the dedicatory prayer at the ceremony, which took ...

Annon Mahaffey of Beecher City, Katie Pieper of Stewardson and Zach Letizia of Neoga represented Shelby Electric Cooperative in Washington, D.C., during the annual "Youth to Washington" Tour, June 12-19. This event, sponsored by the electric and telephone cooperatives of Illinois, began 50 years ago to introduce rural youths to our democratic form ...

One local rodeo competitor qualified for the nationals during the Illinois High School Rodeo Association State Finals over the weekend at Altamont.

The monthly teen dance was held April 17 at the Herrick Community Center and there were 40 teens in attendance.

Shelbyville track was hit and miss on Thursday, as the boys' meet was canceled due to rain and the girls basically just got their feet wet at the Taylorville Tri-meet, which ended with a third place Shelby finish.

Beecher City started slow out of the gate in the 2009 campaign, dropping their home-opener to Pana on Tuesday, 6-4. "We didn't play too bad," said B.C. Coach Carolyn Wendte.

Trey Bergman led Havana High School to its 20th victory of the season, scoring 27 points Monday in the Ducks' 53-44 non-conference win over Camp Point Central.

By VANESSA WELCH vanessa.welch@register-news.com OPDYKE - Almost four years ago, Emily Warf was involved in a life-threatening accident in which many might have thought she would not survive.