The annual Black Diamond Days Pageant will kick off Gillespie’s annual festival on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m., June 2, inside the air-conditioned gymnasium at Ben-Gil...
The graduating class of 2017 at Gillespie High School enjoyed their last opportunity to congregate as a class while engaging in their graduation ceremony. There were...
It was an exciting day at Gillespie High School when 84 graduating seniors walked across the stage and accepted their diploma. In a ceremony that lasted...
Nearly 150 students at Gillespie High School enjoyed great weather Saturday evening as they walked into this year’s prom, themed “rustic romance”. Walk-ins took place from...
Damaging winds hit the BenGil area and its southern neighboring communities of Sawyerville and Wilsonville in the early hours on Tuesday around 1 in the morning...
The Gillespie football team (2-5) showed up to play Friday night beating the visiting Roxana Shells 20-8 in front of an expanded Gillespie audience on homecoming...
Students and faculty at Gillespie High School capped their last school day of homecoming week with the annual homecoming parade through downtown Gillespie. The short-lived parade was...
The Miners football team (1-5) suffered their biggest loss of the season in Carlinville (5-1) to Jacob Dixon and company by a score of 7-51 while...
After a solid 11-1 win over Beecher in the first round of the IESA 2A State Tournament Friday afternoon, the Gillespie Middle School Indians’ baseball team...
The annual fall festival presented by the Coal Country Chamber of Commerce was the main attraction in the BenGil area Saturday, September 24 despite warm temperatures. A...
The Indians baseball team (13-3) won sectionals this afternoon with a 6-0 victory over Pittsfield in Raymond. The Gillespie Middle School team is now among 8...
The Gillespie High School football team (1-4) lost their third straight game Friday night 0-26 to the opposing Hillsboro Hilltoppers who extended their win streak to...
The Gillespie Middle School baseball team (12-3) is regional champions after Tuesday night’s 8-2 victory over Palmyra-Northwestern on their home turf at Welfare Park in Gillespie. The team...
The Miners football team suffered their third loss of the season Saturday in a rescheduled matchup in Southwestern. Gillespie is now 1-3 on the season with...
The Gillespie High School football team evened their record to 1-1 after beating Litchfield 27-13 last night in the team’s first game on their home front...
The Gillespie High School football team opened their 2016 schedule by being the guests in Vandalia. The Miners set the tone early scoring twice before Vandalia...
The miss and junior miss pageant kicked off the Black Diamond Days weekend on Friday night in the Ben-Gil Elementary School. Six beautiful ladies competed for miss...