Twenty students at Gillespie High School received a $1,000 scholarship from the Partnership of Educational Excellence this year. Receiving the scholarship include Anthony Ribes, Cameron Hailstone,...
Gillespie High School is pleased to announce the 2021 Ashby Scholarship award recipients. Receiving the $10,000 Doug Ashby Scholarship is Ambrosia Redmon and John Berry is...
Seniors – Class of 2021 High Honor Roll Hannah Barrett, Allie Bergen, Grace Bertolino, Sydney Bires, Rylan Bruhn, Morgan Buckner, Brock Fredericks, Cole Frensko, Cameron Hailstone,...
Former district teacher Steve Joyce made an impassioned plea to the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education on Monday night urging the board to...
Sydney Bires, the daughter of Ann and John Bires, signed a letter of intent last week to play softball at the next level. In front of...
Columbia College recently announced its dean’s list for the Spring 2021 Semester (January – April, 2021.) To be named to the dean’s list, a student must...
Gillespie High School announced this year’s students recognized as Illinois State Scholars and Silver Medallion Recipient. These top-performing students are selected annually based on their ACT...
Gillespie CUSD 7 will conduct a summer food service program which will provide free meals that meet SFSP federal guidelines to all children 18 years of...
Michelle Smith, President of the local Federation of Teachers union, addressed the Gillespie CUSD 7 school board Monday evening to express the union’s desire that remote...
Gearing up for an expanded program, members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education on Monday night approved hiring teaching staff and non-certificated...
Blackburn College student Rayanne Thompson of Gillespie has been inducted into the College’s chapter of Alpha Chi. A national honor society, Alpha Chi recognizes students who...
CARLINVILLE, IL – Blackburn College’s five-year-old Bee Program is often referred to as the “greatest thing on campus no one knows about.” This summer, the College...
CLASS OF 2021 (Seniors) High honor roll Hannah Barrett, Allie Bergen, Grace Bertolino, Sydney Bires, Morgan Buckner, Cole Frensko, Trenton Gill, Cameron Hailstone, Destiny Hughes, Madison...
SIXTH GRADE Jaxon Ballinger, Logan Belcher, Clayton Bethard, Sloane Brawner, Wrigley Bruhn, Jack Bulla, Bryce Carter, Reagan Cerentano, Mitchell Clark, Olivia Crumley, Jacob Daponte, Dallas Harbaugh,...
A year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced local schools to switch to remote learning, members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education took...
FarmHouse Fraternity at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is offering multiple scholarships to incoming students of all majors that will be attending the university next fall....
(LITCHFIELD, IL) – The HSHS St. Francis Auxiliary offers three scholarship awards to students whose principal residences are in Montgomery or Macoupin counties. The scholarships are awarded to...
Contributed content. LITCHFIELD—State Representative Avery Bourne (R-Morrisonville) is announcing her annual Student Art Contest! Students throughout the 95th district are encouraged to participate in the competition,...
GODFREY – As in many trade industries, there’s a job gap between the number of welders looking to retire and the number of qualified applicants entering the...
The scholarship committee is currently taking applications for the 2021 Bob Price Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is available to graduating students living in Illinois State Police...
