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200-U Making Up That Snow Day
By Jeff Vorva Two new part-time positions have been added to the Beecher School District 200-U roster and will be filled with current full-time employees. Kerry Pikal will serve as a dean at Beecher Junior High, and Paul Vogel will serve as the technology coordinator for the district, starting next school year. Both will continue…
BHS Honor Rolls
Beecher High School recently announced students named to the second quarter honor rolls. Congratulations to the following students! High Honors Seniors: Quinton Allen, Alexis Barkus, Katelyn Bol, Adriana Cabrera, Tyler Cochrane, Sergio Delgado, Riley DeRoos, Nathan Diachenko, Julieta Dominguez, Jessica Ellerson, Ariana Fernandez, Giada Garza, Olivia Geringer-Spagnola, Caitlin Gill, Jack Hayurst, Andrew Hering, Austin Hernandez,…
BJHS Announces Honor Rolls
Beecher Junior High School recently announced students named to its second quarter honor rolls. Congratulations to the following students! High Honor Roll Eighth Grade: Makenna Albert, Elainna Benson, Gianna Bonomo, Shayleigh Brunger, Layla Campus, Jacob Dabrowski, Stanley Detjen, Madelyn Grooms, Fiona Hagan-Storbeck, Kendall Heldt, Reagan Hewitt, Jenna Huskisson, Carmela Irwin, Alexandra Johnson, Zoey Kolosh, Lindsey…
Beecher Homecoming Leaves Bobcats Undefeated
By Jeff Vorva With no football team, homecoming at Beecher High School comes during the basketball season. The 2023-2024 version of homecoming took place on January 19, as the Bobcats hosted a doubleheader. The girls team took the floor first and beat Donovan, 62-29. The boys followed up with an 85-53 triumph over Clifton Central…
Beecher Superintendent Gaham Believes Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story
By Jeff Vorva Numbers were crunched and chomped, spit out, and analyzed. But the bottom line is that Beecher 200U is pretty much in line with the rest of the state in reading, below in math, but ahead in science, according to the recently released state report cards. At the district’s January 8 board meeting,…
Beecher 200-U Bringing the Chickens to Roost
By Jeff Vorva The passing of the Beecher 200-U tax levy had a barnyard feel to it with chickens coming to roost. District Superintendent Jack Gaham threw out a lot of facts, figures, and percentages during a Truth In Taxation hearing at the December 11 board meeting. Some residents were confused about the increases, thinking…
Santa Letters from Ms. Baxter’s First Graders
As promised, here are more of those delightful letters from the children at Beecher Elementary School. Ms. Baxter’s first graders had some great ideas to help out the jolly big man in the bright red suit. After reading the letters, if Santa is really hungry during his journey on Christmas Eve, he won’t be disappointed…
Santa Letters from Mrs. Markland’s First Graders
Mrs. Markland’s children also took the time to inform Santa of their wishes for this Christmas season and also informed the jolly man just what their behavior was like during the past year. To everyone’s relief – they were all GOOD! It certainly looks like Santa’s sleigh is going to be very heavy when it…
Santa Letters from Mrs. Stolarek’s BES First Graders
Recently, the first graders at Beecher Elementary took on a very special project and a most important one, too – the annual writing of letters to that jolly man at the North Pole. After reading some of the correspondence, we think you will agree it was a most important task. This week, The Vedette is…
Beecher School Board Making Things Perfectly CLEAR
By Jeff Vorva The Beecher 200U school board made things perfectly CLEAR on Nov. 13. It is taking a pro-active approach to residency scofflaws and approved to enter the CLEAR Investigation Software program to catch those students who do not live in the district. CLEAR is a product from Thompson Reuters Legal Solutions and District…
BJHS Announces First Quarter Honor Rolls
Beecher Junior High School recently announced students named it its first quarter honor rolls. Congratulations to the following students! High Honors Eighth Grade: Makenna Albert, Gianna Bonomo, Shayleigh Brunger, Brady Cain, Layla Campus, Stanley Detjen, Alexandria Groen-Hudspeth, Madelyn Grooms, Fiona Hagan-Storbeck, Kendall Heldt, Lucas Hernandez, Reagan Hewitt, Matthew Hurley, Jenna Huskisson, Carmela Irwin, Alexandra Johnson,…
BHS Announces First Quarter Honor Rolls
Beecher High School recently announced students named to its first quarter honor rolls. Congratulations to the following students! High Honors Seniors: Quinton Allen, Alexis Barkus, Katelyn Bol, Savannah Bonelli, Adriana Cabrera, Tyler Cochran, Kenneth Deems, Nathan Diachenko, Julieta Dominguez, Jessica Ellerson, Ariana Fernandez, Carter Garrison, Giada Garza, Olivia Geringer-Spagnola, Caitlin Gill, Spencer Guthrie, Jack Hayhurst,…
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Bobcats Made History
By Jeff Vorva “Sad that the ride is over, but what a ride it was!” That sentence found on the Beecher Basketball’s X social media page, complete with the exclamation point at the end of it, put the exclamation point on a wild and historic boys’ hoops season. It was a season that came to…
State Season’s Only Undefeated Team Ends in Loss
By Andrea Arens By all accounts, the Beecher Bobcats were the team to watch. Undefeated and moving in to the Elite 8 Super-Sectional, the Bobcats knew their up-coming game would be a tough one, and tough it was! The first quarter included back-and-forth leads and showed the Bobcats weren’t ones to be dismissed, as the…
Bobcats Make Elite 8; Super-Sectional Action March 4
By Jim Piacentini Friday, March 1, with the Clifton Sectional Championship on the line, first period scoring was tough for both the Bobcats and the Fieldcrest Knights. Neither team seemed to have a direct line to the basket, as the first quarter was tight, leaving the Bobcats leading by only four, 13-9, as the…
Beecher Wins Sectional, Moves on to Elite 8
By Jeff Vorva The dream season continued for Beecher’s boys basketball team in the sectional. The Illinois High School Association Class 2A Clifton Central Sectional featured four red-hot teams that had not lost in the 2024 calendar year. The hottest of the hot was Beecher, which won the sectional with a 60-43 victory over Fieldcrest…
Bobcats Keep Rolling; Take Sectional Semi-Final, 61-51
By Jim Piacentini On Wednesday, February 28, in Clifton Sectional Semi-final competition, the Beecher Bobcats (33-0) faced the Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin Blue Devils (29-4). In the 61-51 win, they will advance to the Sectional Championship on Friday, March 1, when they face the Fieldcrest Knights from Minonk, who have a record very similar to the Bobcats, at…
Two Regionals Won On the Same Night; Beecher Sitting at 32-0
By Jeff Vorva Its rare enough for Beecher and Manteno’s boys basketball teams to win a regional. But for both teams to win one on the same night? That had not happened before, until February 23. Manteno (27-4) won its second regional in school history and first since 2006 with a 48-31 victory over Wilmington…
Bobcats Trounced Chicago Carver
By Jim Piacentini In Westmont Regional Semi-final competition on Wednesday, February 21, the Beecher Bobcats trounced Chicago Carver, 82-51, while preserving their perfect 31-0 record. For this game, it was all Bobcats, who came out on fire. There just was no stopping them. Beecher kept the heat on and took control of both the offensive…
Lady Bobcats Finish Year Third in RVC
By Jim Piacentini The Lady Bobcat Basketball Team headed to Manteno on Monday, February 12, to take on Coal City in regional semi-final action, but the Coalers were too much for the Bobcats in this one, which resulted in a 22-53 loss. Beecher was outscored 27-13 in the first half and just couldn’t get anything…
BOBCATS: RVC Champs, Only State Undefeated Team!
By Jim Piacentini In a big game, with titles and records on the line, the Beecher Bobcats came out, set the tone, and didn’t stop. Beecher took a demanding lead against St. Anne in the first quarter, 22-6. By half time, the Bobcats were ahead 45-20, and then ran away with the ball in the…
Bobcats Continue Perfect Record!
By Jim Piacentini On Friday, February 9, in RVC semi-final action at The Den, Beecher faced Grant Park and kept their perfect record intact – winning 73-44. The Bobcats came out of the gate in full force and held a 22-14 lead at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, they ran…
Bobcats Set School Record with 27 Wins!
By Jim Piacentini Tuesday, February 6, the Bobcats provided the home fans with a huge win plus a new record, as the Bobcats beat the Reed-Custer Comets, 80-50. The game goes into the record book as Beecher’s 27th win for the season, while setting a new record! The Bobcats came out of the gates hitting,…
Bobcats Remain Undefeated; Knock-Out Byron!
By Jim Piacentini Traveling to Byron on Monday, February 5, #4-ranked Beecher faced #3-ranked Byron, in a non-conference match-up pitting the two teams against each other. (Prior to February 2, both teams were undefeated.) The outcome of that contest was just what the Bobcats wanted, as they brought home a 55-51 win, while still maintaining…
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Health Care Careers Virtual Event February 22
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Graduations Brendan Bergman, from New Lenox, earned a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at winter commencement, on December 16,…
Bears Mike Singletary to Speak at USF Brown & Gold Night
Former Chicago Bears middle linebacker Mike Singletary will become the 18th Hall of Fame inductee to be featured as the…
SIU Carbondale Inks Agreement to Improve Access for JJC Students
By Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale strengthened its commitment to students in northern Illinois with an…
Rep. Haas Celebrates IBHE Grants for Olivet Nazarene University
Following the announcement of the recipients for this year’s Independent Colleges Capital Investment Grant Program, State Rep. Jackie Haas released…
WCSF’s Snydersmith Interviewed Olivia Minogue of NBC’s The Voice
University of St. Francis (USF) student and WCSF 88.7 FM on-air talent Will Snydersmith recently interviewed Olivia Minogue, a contestant…
USF Online Programs Recognized in 2024 Rankings by The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review, a national ranking agency that provides admissions resources for college and graduate school-bound students, recently recognized two…
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Graduations During the University of Alabama’s fall commencement at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Ennis Lange was awarded a Bachelor of…
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