• Young local golfer shines at Augusta National

    Nine-year-old Preston Tolnar competed at the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship on the Augusta National Golf Course this April.

  • The National Holocaust Museum and me: where past meets present

    As Jews worldwide gather around the Seder table this week for Passover, recounting the biblical story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt, Lauren Comiteau reflects on injustices past and present, adding a second helping of bitter herbs to her own Seder plate. The Dutch National Holocaust Museum opened last month with much pomp and ceremony—and protest—all broadcast live on national television. There was Dutch king Willem-Alexander wearing a yarmulke and talking about how Sobibor...

  • North Vermilion High searching for head football coach

    Joe Heintz stepped down after only one year Joe Heintz is leaving North Vermilion for a possible job at Teurlings High School. Joe Heintz was named as the head coach of the North Vermilion High football team in April 2023. However, he resigned from his position a year later in April 2024. Reportedly, he will go back to Teurlings High School in Lafayette, where he had previously been coaching for over 15 years. Heintz turned in his resignation last week to North Vermilion Principal Denise...

  • North Vermilion's Charpentier gets game-winning hit

    LEROY – The North Vermilion Lady Patriots advanced to the semifinals of the Division II Non-Select playoffs with a thrilling 1-0 victory over the Iowa Lady Yellow Jackets. The Lady Pats won the game in walk-off fashion, scoring the game’s only run in the bottom of the seventh. With one out in the inning, Reese Charpentier stepped to the plate with the bases loaded. She sent a 2-1 pitch to the wall in left centerfield that scored Amelia Dupre, advancing the Lady Pats to the semifinals to face the...

  • ROUNDUP: Lathrop hurdler shines in Sacramento Meet of Champions

    Lathrop High senior Adonis Siga was among the top performers from the area Saturday in the Sacramento Meet of Champions at American River College.

  • BLM holding public meetings about Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

    ASHLAND, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management is holding public meetings to discuss a new plan for managing the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. BLM said the monument is currently split up and managed under three different plans and BLM is looking to consolidate the management into one plan. The new proposed plan will cover a […]

  • Andrew Scott shines in National Theatre Live’s ‘Vanya’

    The stage for “Vanya” opened as a small room dotted with three chairs, a plastic stool, a table with a lamp, and a bottle of liquor. A doorway at center stage served as the gateway between a wide variety of characters, portrayed brilliantly by actor Andrew Scott in the one-man adaptation of “Uncle Vanya.” I

  • Quick Take: North Korea’s “National Defence Industrial Enterprise”

    On April 26, North Korean media mentioned a “newly established national defence industrial enterprise under the Second Economy Commission” while…

  • Preparing the national team at the meeting table of the Football Association, the League and the clubs

    Emirates Today learned that an upcoming meeting will be scheduled later, including the Football Association, the Professional League, and the clubs, to develop a road map for local competitions for the next football season 2024-2025, so that the “calendar” for these competitions takes into account the program to prepare the national team for future competitions, […]

  • Butterfly helps North Vermilion sophomore win regional golf title

    Stevens used where butterfly landed as a mark to sank 20-foot putt Playing in his first ever regional golf tournament, Kaine Stevens of NVHS won it. Kaine Stevens needed help to win the regional golf tournament, and he found help when a butterfly landed on the green of the final hole. Stevens needed to make a 20-foot putt to win the regional tournament. As the tension mounted, Stevens was grappling with the best approach to read the putt. Suddenly, a butterfly materialized on the putting...

  • Prep report: Proctor runs, and throws, wild at North Branch meet

    Proctor boys won nine events, while the girls had four more.

  • Local 8th grader to compete among nation’s top wrestlers

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – At only 14 years old, Akeem Mitchell is ready to take on the national wrestling scene. The 8th grader just wrapped up an impressive season where he won the APS Metro championship at 215 lbs and had multiple podium placements at premier tournaments across the country. Thanks to his success, Mitchell got []