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Applications for 2019 Jasper County Law Enforcement Shop with a Cop Program are now available at the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office. The children must be Jasper County residents, and children much be between the ages of 3 to 14. Parents, who would like their children to participate, MUST RETURN the
Eagles with a 1-0 win over Altamont. Goal by Carder Reich. Eagles advance to the regional championship Friday.
The R.E.A.D. team visited Newton Elementary, Ste. Marie Elementary, and St. Thomas to present the first through third grade classes with a new book for each student. Ginger Robins, with the help of her Reading Excites All Dreams team, Coco Lin, Justin Zumbahlen, Kenneth Hartke, Connie Hemrich, and Madison Phillips,
St. Thomas held their open house for students to show their parents their classrooms, projects they have completed and other exciting aspects of the school.
N.C.H.S. BOYS BASKETBALL RESERVED SEATS GO ON SALE The 2019-2020 N.C.H.S. boys basketball reserved seats will go on sale on Monday, November 4, 2019, for fans with reserved seats from last season. General public sales of the reserved seats will be Tuesday, November 12, 2019. Price per reserved seat is
The Lady Eagles Varsity Volleyball team fell to T-town in three sets. The Freshman split with scores of 19-25 and 25-19. The JV won with scores of 26-24 and 25-14. The Varsity fell in three with scores of 19-25, 25-12, and 16-25. Category Leaders Include: Aces: Brooke Jansen 2, Renee
The Newton Lady Eagles placed third at the Pana/Shelbyville Invite. The Lady Eagles defeated Shelbyville in two sets of 25-19 and 25-16 and Effingham 25-19 and 25-22. The Eagles fell to St. Thomas More in two with scores of 17-25 and 19-25 and Rochester with scores of 24-26 and 14-25.
On Thursday, October 10 the Jasper County Board met for the regularly scheduled October meeting. Board members present included: Bollman, Leffler, Fehrenbacher, Hall, Heltsley, Hickox, Kerner, Pickens, Swick, Warfel, Michl and Weddell. All votes are unanimous unless otherwise stated and the minutes are considered unofficial until approved at the next meeting.
After the 50 year class had been introduced, the coin toss was completed with the football members from that class, Jacelyn Street was named Queen and Jarrett Tharp was named King, and the band played the school song and the Star Spangled Banner, the Newton Eagles football team began their
Justin Zumbahlen, son of Phil and Judy Zumbahlen, has been named a commended student in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. The press release for this honor states, “Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2020 competition by taking the