By VICTOR LAMPE For The Weekly Post PRINCEVILLE – The Princeville volleyball team made the most of Tuesday’s senior night match, topping Galva 25-14 and 25-5 to improve to a perfect 10-0 so far this season. Going into the game, Princeville Coach Charissa Ouart had said, “I’m looking forward to having all the seniors play.” She got that chance, as the Lady Princes dominated the second game. Overall, Elle Schupbach had 14 kills and 18 assists, Julianne Kielion had 2 aces and Lindsey Meisenheimer worked hard to come up with 16 digs. Prior to a break for Easter weekend, the Lady…

Mid-County finishes strong in loss By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post BUSHNELL – COVID-19 protocols sidelined the Elmwood-Brimfield football team for a game and sapped the team’s energy heading into the second half of a road game vs. West Prairie. But ultimately last Saturday, COVID and West Prairie were not enough to slow E-B in a 52-36 victory. The Trojans (2-0, 1-0 Prairieland Blue) ran for 362 yards and averaged 8.4 per carry in the win, which came after players had to spend much of the past two weeks in quarantine following a positive COVID test. That layoff didn’t matter…

Rambling through central Illinois, pondering the power of a trees whose thorns were used as nails by settlers. • • • Seems I’ve had this tree planting thing all wrong. Instead of oaks, walnuts, persimmons, chestnuts, hazelnuts and sycamores – all the trees that animals love to eat – we should have gone with locusts. Those thorny rascals can have the perfect defense against the teeth of deer and rabbits, even against the digging habits of raccoons. They are also fairly effective against chainsaws and humans. Last weekend was the culmination of five years of dreading a government-mandated locust slaughter….

By JOHN A. BALLENTINE For The Prairie News LaFAYETTE – LaFayette has a new food service available on a limited basis, but it has become popular with customers. Lori Shambaugh, of LaFayette, opened Lori’s Food Shack last October to provide a meal for people during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The purpose of me starting this was because of the people who couldn’t get out. We live in such a small community we can deliver right to a person’s house,” Shambaugh said. Some people do come to the Food Shack for their meals. It is located adjacent to Shambaugh’s home and is…

By JOHN A. BALLENTINE For The Prairie News Without a hotly contested presidential duel to fuel turnout, Tuesday’s consolidated election saw light voter turnout at most polling places and very few contested races in central Illinois. But there were still some races of interest, particularly in Bradford, where one election was as close as they come. According to Stark County’s website, the unofficial voting results shows that the Bradford Village President’s race is so close that a possible recount may be looming. Candidates Bob Boehm and John Cler, both village trustees, ran for the president’s four year term position. The current…

By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post FARMINGTON – Farmington is headed back to square one in its quest to find a new city building. At Monday’s City Council meeting, the council gave tacit approval to Mayor Kent Kowal to exit a building contract with D. Joseph Construction. Joseph was hired as construction manager at a Feb. 21 meeting, during which the council voted unanimously to move forward – the apparent culmination of discussions about a city building that date back to January of 2018. At that February meeting, the council also voted to acquire three vacant lots on East Fort…

By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post Without a hotly contested presidential duel to fuel turnout, Tuesday’s consolidated election saw light voter turnout at most polling places and very few contested races in central Illinois. But there were still some races of interest, particularly in Elmwood, which was a relative hotbed for contested elections – a fact reflected in voter turnout that topped 41 percent in the city. Among the races taht voters decided was the four-man runoff to be mayor of Elmwood. John “JD” Hulslander won the election with 242 of 595 votes cast or 40.7 percent of the total…

By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post PRINCEVILLE – Optimism over a more normal summer is evident in all walks of life, even at meetings of the Princeville Village Board. During its March 16 meeting, the village board heard discussions about the village’s annual Heritage Days event, which was not held last year but is currently being planned for June 24-27 at Princeville’s Stevens Square Park. More specifically, the board approved a request from the Akron-Princeville Fire Department seeking to use a city lot for their annual beer tent. Village President Jeff Troutman said the board gave tentative approval of…

By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post Four candidates who have spent more than 157 years combined living in Elmwood are vying for the position of mayor in this city of 2,300. This is the first contested mayoral contest in Elmwood since 2009, when John “JD’ Hulslander, then 32, defeated Bob Howard. Hulslander served two terms, before outgoing mayor Bryan Davis took over. The other candidates are Brandon Butler, 36, David Courson, 76, and Dave Ramsay, 56. Courson also served as Elmwood mayor, from 1979-83. Ramsay has spent most of his work career in construction operations and sales for steel structures,…

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Elmwood man killed in Springfield shooting SPRINGFIELD – Former Elmwood resident Daniel Kinney, 24, was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body when Springfield Police arrived at the scene of a call in the 900 block of Griffiths Avenue on March 15 at about 9:09 p.m. Kinney was pronounced dead at the scene from the gunshot wound. According to the State Journal-Register, the person who called police to report the shooting said someone had kicked in the back door…