Brimfield girls BKB starts season strong By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post BRIMFIELD – The Brimfield girls basketball team has started this year in mid-season form. The Lady Indians have raced to a perfect record through the first week of play, featuring a combination of potent, balanced scoring and stingy defense. Brimfield (4-0) opened the season with a 64-32 rout of Princeville, followed up with a 99-28 win over West Prairie on Nov. 18 and last Saturday opened play at its own Turkey Tournament by trouncing Kewanee Wethersfield, 55-15. Monday was more of the same in a 63-22 win over…

Aupperle earns honor from ag group By JOHN A. BALLENTINE For The Prairie News TOULON – Eldon R. “Bud” Aupperle has dedicated his life to advancing the Future Farmers of America program from the national to the local levels. His association with FFA began in 1946 when he joined the FFA at Fairbury Township High School as a freshman. It was then that his Ag teacher and FFA teacher, Robert Maurer, significantly influenced Aupperle for the rest of his life. “We had a super fantastic Ag teacher. I became very active in FFA although I had three brothers [Elias, Willis…

By JEFF LAMPE For The Prairie News OREGON – Despite running her best race ever on the challenging new sectional course here, Stark County senior Ashley Orrick narrowly missed advancing to the Class 1A state cross country meet last Saturday. Orrick placed 29th out of 148 finishers overall in 21:31 on the 3.1-mile course for the Lady Rebels, who placed 12th as a team. Alex Welch (64th, 18:54), the first SC boys runner to compete in a sectional, also ran well, but missed advancing to state Saturday at Detweiller Park in Peoria. “Ashley ran her best race ever on this layout…

Traffic citations & Ordinance violations 10-17 – Kavon A. Russell – Unlawful possession of cannabis. 10-30 – Hunter C. Easterberg – Driving 15-20 mph above limit. 10-26 – Juan A. Amperez-Ruiz – Driving 15-20 mph above limit. 10-25 – Paulo Castro – Driving 15-20 mph above limit. 10-25 – Timothy L. Postin – Driving 21-25 mph above limit. 10-31 – Melanie G. Sadowski – Operating an uninsured vehicle, failure to signal and driving on a suspended license. 10-25 -Veronica Sierra Mejia – Speeding 26-34 mph over limit. Felonies & Misdemeanors 10-29 – DUI Traffic – Gavin J. L. Abbott –…

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Elmwood man subdued with taser by deputies ELMWOOD – Peoria County Sheriff deputies used a taser to subdue an Elmwood man on Oct. 23 after he became combative with officers. Police responding to a domestic situation in the 300 block of N. Pleasant St. found Michael M. Overend “yelling and bleeding from his head,” according to an Elmwood police report. Overend said he had smashed his phone against his head before beating his head on the wall. A female said she…

Inability to finish haunts SC By JEFF LAMPE For The Prairie News ELMWOOD – Finishing drives is proving to be an Achille’s heel for this year’s Stark County football team. The problem cropped up again last Friday in a pivotal game at Elmwood-Brimfield, where both the Rebels and Trojans faced off in dire need of a win. That E-B wound up claiming a 30-9 non-conference victory was at least in part to the Rebels’ inability to make the most of possessions. Case in point came on the first drive of the third quarter. After E-B (2-2) went up 16-0 on 12-…

By JEFF LAMPE and PHIL JOHNSON For The Prairie News WALNUT – Ashley Orrick and Paige Rewerts both earned trophies Saturday and the Stark County girls cross country team placed ninth at the 19-team Dale Donner Invitational. Orrick (21st, 20:50) and Rewerts (30th, 21:40) brought home trophies for finishing in the top 30 and were followed in the scoring list by teammates Kokone Kasaya (61st, 23:12), Keagan Hamilton (69th, 23:37) and Nina Longabaugh (78th, 24:17). Also competing for the girls were Sarah Kraklow (133rd, 28:28) and Katie Grinnell (154th, 31:37). Orrick’s time was the fifth fastest by a Rebel girl on the…

By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post FARMINGTON – Nearly two dozen Farmington businesses and 13 full-time city employees will receive payments from the city’s share of its first American Rescue Plan payment. Farmington received $151,109 from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan and the city council has spent the past few months deciding how best to use the money. Monday night, the council voted unanimously to approve a plan that will provide payments of $5,000 to 22 Farmington businesses, $2,500 to a home-based business and $1,000 to 13 city employees who were working full-time in March of 2020 and are still…

By KATIE ZELECHOWSKI Illinois Farm Bureau Most drivers know the feeling of running late for an important meeting or event and how tempting it can be to speed up to shave a bit of time off of the commute. But as fall weather rolls into Illinois this season, so does farm equipment used during harvest. Sparing five extra minutes to safely navigate around these slow-moving vehicles helps ensure everyone on the road gets home at the end of the day. As the daughter of a truck driver, high school ag teacher Kaity Spangler knows the dangers that come with operating…

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Hanna City tavern damaged by fire • PRINCEVILLE – Logan-Trivoli Firefighters responded to a report of a building on fire at the ReFuel Bar at 12910 W. Farmington Rd. in Hanna City at 3:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Peoria County Sheriff’s deputies on routine patrol spotted the fire and reported to dispatch that fire and smoke were coming from the roof area of the east side of the building. Logan-Trivoli firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the…