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  • Disagreement blooms around new elementary reading series

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:44 PM
    Several Wesclin school district parents and teachers (and some parents who are also teachers) have expressed concern about the school administration’s recommendation that the Kindergarten through Fifth Grade reading series be upgraded to the Pearson’s ReadyGen system. Pearson’s ReadyGen is also the democratic choice of district elementary school teachers, although there was disagreement, according to Wesclin superintendent Jennifer Filyaw.
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  • Trenton cop Berry now certified interviewer

    Trenton cop Berry now certified interviewer

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:41 PM
    Trenton police officer Joe Berry has achieved Certified Forensic Interviewer (CFI) designation after passing an examination in April of this year and receiving certification in May from the International Association of Interviewers (IAI).
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  • George Evans becomes first Kaskaskia College graduate to be named college president

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:38 PM
    Kaskaskia College’s Board of Trustees on June 5 named George Evans as the 11th President of the community college. Evans, who has served as interim president since November, signed a three-year contract. Board chairman Bill Hawley said, “His heart and soul is with this community college. I think George has accomplished more in six months as interim president than we have in two years.”
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Sports

  • Miner Bats Bury Buds

    Miner Bats Bury Buds

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:49 PM
    Trenton Miners scored 18 runs on 15 hits Sunday at Pete Schumacher field in Trenton to hand the Centralia  Buds their first defeat of the season by a final score of 18-8 in a seven-inning short game affair. Trenton scored early and often to improve their Clinton County Baseball  League record to 2-1 after  an open date last week
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  • Post 778 Gator off to solid start

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:47 PM
    Trenton American Legion Post 778’s Gator baseball team is off to a 2-1 start on the young season, having posted a victory over Centralia in their season opener and splitting a pair of games over the weekend in the Elmer Ross Wooden Bat tournament put on by New Baden Post 321.
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  • Wegman earns all-state status with seventh place finish

    Wegman earns all-state status with seventh place finish

    Tuesday, May 29, 2018 8:03 PM
    Reiss Wegman now has the only Illinois High School Association all-state medal in the 1,600-meter run ever handed out to a Wesclin Warrior.
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Opinions

  • Mike’s Musings

    Mike’s Musings

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:00 PM
    My curiosity exceeds my capacity  to satisfy it.

    One of the consequences of our daughter Zoë’s death by overdose a little more than a year ago has been the amount of intellectual space it has freed up in my brain, space that to this point remains largely unfilled.
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  • Joe's Corner

    Joe's Corner

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 10:00 AM
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  • Capitol Facts

    Capitol Facts

    Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:01 PM
    If you ask anyone at the Statehouse about House Speaker Michael Madigan’s  former chief of staff Tim Mapes, they’ll all say he “made the trains run on time.”
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