BJHS Announces Third Quarter Honor Rolls
Beecher Junior High School recently announced students named to its third quarter honor rolls. Congratulations to the following students! High Honors Eighth Grade: Makenna Albert, Gianna Bonomo, Shayleigh Brunger, Layla Campus, Jacob Dabrowski, Michael DeFrank, Presley Glavin, Madelyn Grooms, Fiona Hagan-Storbeck, Reagan Hewitt, Jenna Huskisson, Carmela Irwin, Alexandra Johnson, Annabelle Kapchinske, Zoey Kolosh, Kaylee Kopec,…
200-U Tackling Truancy Head On
By Jeff Vorva Beecher’s schools are going to take an active approach to truancy. At the District 200-U Board of Education meeting on March 11, Superintendent Jack Gaham said the State of Illinois considers any student with 14 absences as truant, regardless if they are excused or unexcused. That included days used as mental health…
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…
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Bobcats End Tough Week with Second Win
On Monday, April 8, the Bobcats traveled to Westmont and lost to the Sentinels in a low-scoring 2-1 seven-inning contest. On the mound, Trevor Stout had 6 strong innings, only allowing 1 unearned run, on 3 hits. In relief, Chase Maher gave-up a walk-off single to end the game, while taking the loss. Beecher scored…
Lady Bobcats Sweep Donovan in Doubleheader Shutouts
By Jim Piacentini The Lady Bobcats faced the Donovan Wildcats on their home field in a conference doubleheader on Tuesday, April 9, which resulted in two awesome wins. The Bobcats came out swinging their bats and took the doubleheader 17-0 and 13-0. In the first game, everyone on the team pitched in. Evelyn Jablonski went…
Tough Week for Bobcat Baseball
On Monday, April 8, the Bobcats traveled to Westmont and lost to the Sentinels in a low-scoring 2-1 seven-inning contest. On the mound, Trevor Stout had 6 strong innings, only allowing 1 unearned run, on 3 hits. In relief, Chase Maher gave-up a walk-off single to end the game, while taking the loss. For Beecher,…
Lady Bobcats Crush Ottawa 9-1
By Jim Piacentini On Wednesday, March 27, the Lady Bobcats came out swinging against the Ottawa Pirates in front of the hometown fans. Scoring 3 runs in the first inning, they set the pace of the game, which resulted in the 9-1 non-conference win. On the day, the Lady Bobcats tallied 14 hits and were…
Bobcats Lose to Herscher
By Jim Piacentini It was a cold cold and windy day on Wednesday, March 27, but both the Beecher Bobcats and the Herscher Tigers came out swinging. At the end on of the third inning, the game was tied 3-all. But by the fourth, there was a decided change, as Herscher went around the batting…
Bobcats Beat Watseka, 7-6
On Tuesday, March 12, in a non-conference contest on the home diamond, the Bobcats beat the Watseka Warriors, 7-6, in six-and-a-half innings of play. AJ Snell earned his first pitching victory of the year, striking out 9 Warriors in 4 innings of work. On the day, Snell, Quinton Allen, and Nathan Diachenko each had two…
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…
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USF Presented SCC Friendship Award
During its annual fundraising dinner on Thursday, March 7, the Spanish Community Center (SCC) in Joliet presented the University of…
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Miranda Tyda, a sophomore from New Lennox, portrayed a shepherd in Augustana’s performance of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” on…
Justin Cordero Performing in ‘Godspell’ at Lewis
Justin Cordero, of New Lenox, is a cast member in Lewis University’s Philip Lynch Theatre’s performance of “Godspell” (2012), a…
Augustana College Choir Students Perform in California Tour
More than 50 Augustana College students performed, at five Southern California churches, during the Augustana College Choir’s California Tour from…
Calvin Boss Earns Honors at NCCFA Invitational
The Grove City College Debate Team recently traveled to Nashville to compete in the National Christian College Forensics Association (NCCFA)…
Local Students Receive SIU Med Students’ Residency Match
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine students in the Class of 2024 learned crucial information about their futures on Friday,…
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Phi Kappa Phi Inducts New Members: Recently, the following local residents were initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa…
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The Sally Otto Gallery at the University of Mount Union, in Alliance, Ohio, will feature its annual Student Art Exhibit,…
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Graduations South Dakota State University announced Michael John Morgan, of New Lenox, graduated following the summer and fall 2023 semesters.…
‘USF Encounter’ Staff Members Earn Awards at ICPA Conference
Staff members of USF Encounter, the student news magazine published through the University of St. Francis (USF) Communication and Media…
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