The 2025-26 Egyptian Illini Girls All-Conference Basketball Teams were named. Brownstown/St. Elmo’s Dayana Haslett was selected to the First Team and also claimed the Most Valuable Player award.

Named to the First Team were Jackson Bohm (Mahomet-Seymour), Brock Brown (Taylorville), Lincoln Hayes (Mattoon), Tyler Oakley (Charleston) and Paxson O’Malley (Mahomet-Seymour).

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 9, 2026 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Effingham with burial in St. Anthony Cemetery. Visitation will be held from ...

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Trinity Lutheran won the championship at Effingham during the weekend. Members of the team are, front row, left to right, ...

MOUNT ZION — Several area athletes competed in the Blazen Braves Boys and Girls Track Invitational Saturday hosted by Mount Zion High School. Effingham St. Anthony’s Reese Hoene won the 60 meter run ...

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Little Illini All-Conference girls basketball teams were named. Named to the First Team were Lucy Moore (Casey-Westfield), Addeline Sanders (Lawrenceville), Riley Hershey (Mount Carmel), Maycee ...

Madonna M. Vahling, 84 of Island Grove, passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 1, 2026 with her family around her. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 6, 2026 at St ...