UYC to host open house Aug. 18
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10th Annual Fearless 5K is Aug. 20
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Latest Updates
- Residential fire in Rosewood injures 3 - 10:35 pm
- Fair winners - 10:17 pm
- School supplies program returns - 9:37 pm
- UYC to host open house Aug. 18 - 9:30 pm
- Fair winners - 9:29 pm
- Fair winners - 9:28 pm updated: 9:59 pm.
- 10th Annual Fearless 5K is Aug. 20 - 10:45 pm
- Fair winners - 10:24 pm
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- Fair winners - 8:51 pm
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- PET OF THE WEEK - 8:00 pm
- Goddard is King of the Ring - 7:59 pm
- Fair winners - 10:54 pm
- Fair winners - 10:24 pm
- Historical society to host Chomp Hunter - 10:20 pm
- Tank the Goat - 10:14 pm
- Smoked pork - 10:07 pm
- School year opens with new faces at Urbana - 8:44 pm
- Long day at the fair - 8:43 pm
- CLFEST 22 adds pre-party - 8:43 pm
- Back to perform Sunday in Harmon Park - 10:48 pm
- Fair winners - 10:41 pm
- Fair winners - 10:30 pm
NEWS
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Open Class Flower Show Best of Show Artistic Design winner is Deborah Graham.Open Class flower Show Best of Show Cut Specimen winner is Lisa Helms.Ope...
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Eric Goddard, 1st place Dairy Steer SkillathonEric Goddard, Reserve Grand Champion Dairy SteerEric Goddard, Showman of Showmen Dairy SteerEric Goddard...
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Hannah Bailey won Reserve Grand Champion Market Turkey.Gavin Bailey won Champion Rookie Showmanship.Hannah Bailey won Champion young Continental Chick...
PET OF THE WEEK
Paws Animal ShelterMeet Pickle!Pickle is a pretty 11-month-old spayed female tiger. She’s a little on the quiet side and loves to be petted. Pic...
Goddard is King of the Ring
On Thursday afternoon, the showmanship winners representing 10 different species competed in the 2022 King of the Ring contest at the Champaign County...
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Kaleb Pond won Grand Champion Dairy Feeder.Kody Pond won Champion Rate of Gain for Dairy Feeders and his brother Kaleb Pond won Reserve Champion Rate ...
SPORTS
Urbana defeats North Union
Urbana beat visiting North Union, 192-206, in CBC boys golf. For the Hillclimbers, Tate Armstrong was medalist with a 36, Kaz Scott (pictured) had a 4...
Mechanicsburg downs Triad in girls golf
Mechanicsburg defeated Triad, 240-255, in OHC girls golf.For the Indians, Taylor Rausch was medalist with a 49, Caitlin Burchett had a 56, Kendall Rau...
Teeing off at UCC
Urbana’s Tate Armstrong was medalist with a 73 at the Urbana Classic boys golf tournament at Urbana Country Club.Also for the Hillclimbers, Kaz ...
Shady Bowl hosts big night of racing
DeGRAFF – If you are a fan of top-notch stock racing and seeing our younger generation have a good time, Shady Bowl Speedway was the place to be...
Indians defeat Greenon in boys golf
PITCHIN – Mechanicsburg opened the season by defeating Greenon, 155-169, in OHC boys golf at Locust Hills.For Mechanicsburg, Will Reiser was the...
UHS alumni game
The Urbana High School alumni boys soccer squad beat the current UHS team, 8-4, Saturday night. Pictured is alum Daniel Westcott battling for the ball...
LIFE
Burroughs, Henry engaged
William Whitt of Springfield and Heidi (Ty) Burroughs of St. Paris proudly announce the engagement of their daughter Kali Whitt to Tristen Henry. Tris...
Garveys celebrate 65th anniversary
John Frederick and Patricia Ann Garvey of Urbana will celebrate their 65th anniversary on May 21. They were married on that date in 1960 by the Revere...
Roberts, Profitt wed
Mallory Ranee Roberts of Urbana and Ryan James Robert Profitt of Fairborn were married by family friend, Josh VanNorstran, at 2:30 p.m. October 2, 202...
Looking Back – Douglas Inn Barbershop
First is a circa 1930 photo (#0207) of the Douglas Inn barbershop. The barbershop was in the Douglas Inn at 26 Monument Square, also pictured (#0048) ...
Free Maximizing Home Health Care Workshop for Family Caregivers: February 24
Maximizing Home Health Care is a free, small-group, online workshop from 10:00-11:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 24, by presenter Kathy Kilpatrick. Reg...
OPINION
It’s all a Hodge-Pourri-Podge!
It is mid-July again, synonymous with mid-summer as far as I am concerned. During my teaching years, that was when I tried to unwind, knowing school w...
Just yesterday … several decades ago
On Sunday, trying to overcome protracted procrastination to write this week’s article, I checked Facebook one more time – and suddenly cha...
Working hard all summer long
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of outreach columns from the Champaign County Board of Developmental Disabilities.Summer 2022 is just as ...
Living layer by layer
How does a girl celebrate her birth? With family photos, of course! Anna Joyce Passarelli was posing with Daddy David, Mommy Kelsey, and Brother Sam, ...
The very best summers
There has been no need to check the calendar to know that summer is now firmly in charge. With oppressive levels of heat and humidity waving around, I...
Books I have read by authors I know
Several years ago, during my early Boomer Blog days, I also had one of the seminal reading experiences of my life - I absolutely devoured Team of Riva...
