Day: March 23, 2022
B-E boys baseball jumps to 7-0 start
By PHIL JOHNSON For The Weekly Post Local high school baseball games began last Tuesday with some rare, very nice mid-March weather. Here’s a summary. Brimfield-Elmwood Brimfield-Elmwood (7-0) kept winning Monday with a 10-0 non-conference win at home vs. Henry. Austin Baysingar fired a complete pitching performance, striking out nine and allowing just two hits. B-E took advantage of six Henry errors and Jude Strahm, Kyle Binder and Jack Houlihan each clubbed a double. “We’re playing together as a team and playing with a lot of confidence right now,” Coach Brandon Porter said. “The main issue we need to work on…
Yellow fever
Brimfield-Elmwood ‘right there’ By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post The Brimfield-Elmwood softball team is off to a 2-1 start and, while the wins were nice, the one loss may have been even more telling for Coach Kurt Juerjens. In addition to wins over Knoxville and Henry, B-E suffered a 2-1 loss to Stanford Olympia in the bottom of the 8th inning. That’s significant because while Olympia pitcher Danika Frazier can top 60 mph, the Lady Indians gave her a good battle. “I thought when we played Olympia the other night we were right there. It showed we can compete with…
Harmon, Hursey win at Last Chance indoor meet
Harmon, Hursey win at Last Chance indoor meet By Weekly Post Staff Reports MONMOUTH – Senior Thomas Harmon won the 800-meter race Saturday for Elmwood-Brimfield at the 14th Silver Streaks Last Chance indoor meet held at Monmouth College. He was one of two local winners on the day, as Miranda Hursey of Farmington won the pole vault with a vault of 8 feet, 11 inches. Harmon finished the 800 in 2:02.79 to beat runnerup Logan Veloz of East Moline (2:03.37) and a field of 45 other runners. Harmon was also second in the 1,600 in 4:46.03, placing behind Limestone’s Wilson Georges (4:18.7)….
Elmwood council discussing text notifications
By JOHN A. BALLENTINE For The Weekly Post ELMWOOD – The Elmwood City Council met March 15 without an agenda item listed. Therefore, the meeting was limited to discussion of topics that included a notification system, extending a Tax Increment Financing district and a tree in Central Park. City Clerk Bethany Lovingood informed the council that the city could purchase a texting notification system for $4,800. The council suggested tracking just how many notifications, such as boil orders, street closures, etc., that the city would utilize in order to determine if it would be enough to justify spending nearly $5,000 for…
Too transparent?
New filing rules a hot topic in Illinois By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post In a state too well known for political corruption, any law that seeks to curtail those problems is a good one, right? Perhaps you haven’t met Illinois Public Act 102-0664, an ethics bill designed to increase transparency involving elected officials and government employees. As part of the bill, effective Jan. 1, Illinois elected officials, appointed members of board, some government employees and pension fund board members must fill out a revised Statement of Economic Interests form. Previously, the form asked officials to disclose relationships with businesses…
Of flower-induced wounds & a dumb form
Goldfinches earned my admiration Saturday morning. Having collected nearly 100 purple coneflower seedheads last fall, I finally set about to taking the sharp, piercing little seeds off the head. In years past, we’ve merely thrown entire seedheads out onto our prairie with limited success. A better answer seemed to be spreading the seeds individually, since they are smaller and more likely to find their way into cracks and crevices than a big old ball-o-seeds. But plucking coneflower seeds is a formidable task. “How do the goldfinches do it so effortlessly?” my mind pondered, as blood started trickling from numerous little…
The Weekly Post public record for 3-24-22
NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. High-speed chase nets Canton man charges FARMINGTON – A slew of charges were levied against a Canton man who was involved in an alleged theft in Canton and fled from police at a high rate of speed through Farmington, according to a police report. On March 21 at approximately 4 a.m., police were advised to look for a red Mitsubishi that had reportedly been used in a theft in Canton earlier in the day. The vehicle, which had a passenger, was…
