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The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School baseball team will play in the Class 2A Carterville regionals May 15-20.
The Wildcats open play against Pinckneyville at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 15.
The winner plays Carterville at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Monday’s winner between Vienna and Zeigler-Royalton play Du...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School girls’ track team had two first place finishes at the Southern Illinois River-to-River Conference Mississippi Division track meet at Carterville Friday, May 5.
Julia Lasley won the pole vault with a 9-0 jump and Brooke Miller won the high jump with a 5-0...
Dawson Johnson was 2-for-3 with 2 RBIs to lead host Shawnee to a 5-1 win over Elverado in South Egyptian Conference high school baseball action Tuesday, April 25.
Johnson was the winning pitcher with 11 strikeouts. Casey Baltzell and Nick Baltzell also pitched for the Redskins.
Zach Berner was 2-...
Shawnee Community College announces that the 2017 Illinois Community College Trustees Association Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member is Sheryl Ribbing of Anna.
The award recognizes the high achievement of Illinois Community College instructors.
Ribbing received her bachelor of science degree in...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School softball team struggled in recent action with five losses.
Trico 5, A-J 1: Lexi Macy was 2-for-3 to lead the visiting Lady Wildcats in the non-conference loss Saturday, April 8.
Makenzie Carter was 1-for-3 with a home run for A-J. Morgan Wendling was 1-for-3...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School baseball team won a pair of games in recent action.
A-J 10, Vienna 7: Hunter Ralls was 2-for-3 with a double, stolen base and 4 RBIs to lead the visiting Wildcats to the non-conference win Friday, April 7.
Bryce Osman was 2-for-4 with 2 stolen bases and an...
Mike Hanson has been the principal at Shawnee Junior-Senior High School in Wolf Lake for the past six years. In mid-June of this year, he will retire.
Hanson, of Grand Tower, graduated from Shawnee High School in 1973. However, like many graduates who are tired of school, he swore he would never...
Shawnee Community College has a new music instructor after the retirement of John Windings, who was the music instructor for over 20 years.
Lee VanAlstine has been working in K-12 public education in Southern Illinois since 1997, though he is originally from Central Illinois.
He received his...
A week after the region experienced deadly tornadoes, another round of severe weather rumbled through the region Monday night and early Tuesday, March 6-7.
Tornadoes swept through Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois Monday night and early Tuesday morning, Feb. 28 and March 1.
The tornadoes...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School girls’ basketball team split in recent action.
Carterville 45, A-J 37: The host Lady Wildcats fell behind early and couldn’t catch up in the loss Thursday, Dec. 22.
“We played well,” A-J coach Matt Denny said. “We just couldn’t get over the hump.”
Elle...
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