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Michelle Nelson-Schmidt visited Jasper County Schools and spoke about her life and the lessons she learned as well as the books she has written. She spoke with the kids about following their dreams no matter what, and to find their happiness and follow their dreams. She has written books about
Saturday, October 12th Willow Hill will have a fall chili / hot supper at the park from 4pm to 8pm There will be games including pumpkin bocce ball, hop sack races, also pumpkin decorating/ face painting! We A costume contest will be held at 7pm with different age groups. From
The Newton Marching Eagles will host the 29th Annual Marching Eagles Band Classic on September 28 at the NCHS Football Field in Newton. The first band will take the field at 10 am and the Marching Eagles will perform at 2:30 with the awards ceremony at 2:50. [pdf-embedder url=”https://newtonartscouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Advertising-poster.doc.pdf”
The results from the Olney Cross Country Invitational are shown below. Please note the pdf files have more than one page. [pdf-embedder url=”https://newtonartscouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Olney-Invitational-Boys-Individual-Results-2019-09-21.pdf” title=”Olney Invitational Boys Individual Results, 2019-09-21″] [pdf-embedder url=”https://newtonartscouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Olney-Invitational-Boys-Team-Scores-2019-09-21.pdf” title=”Olney Invitational Boys Team Scores, 2019-09-21″] [pdf-embedder url=”https://newtonartscouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Olney-Invitational-Girls-Individual-Results-2019-09-21.pdf” title=”Olney Invitational Girls Individual Results, 2019-09-21″] [pdf-embedder url=”https://newtonartscouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Olney-Invitational-Girls-Team-Scores-2019-09-21.pdf” title=”Olney Invitational Girls
** My apologies for the delay in providing these pictures and this information. I overlooked an evening last week and am finishing catching it up today. The Newton Eagles defeated the Effingham Hearts at Newton with a final score of 2-0. Goals were scored by Ross Farley and Seth Weber
This is the short summary of the September School Board meeting. More detail will be included in a later article, however, we wanted to get the basics out tonight. Following is a summary of minutes of a regular meeting of the Board of Education of Jasper County Community Unit School
Johnie Edward Cowman, age 75 April 29, 1944 – September 23, 2019 Johnie Edward Cowman, age 75, of Olney Illinois and formerly of Newton, Illinois, passed away at 2:19 AM – Monday, September 23, 2019, Carle Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney, Illinois. Visitation will be held 2:00-4:00 PM
Newton versus Charleston ** My apologies to the Lady Eagles for the delay on writing this. I somehow missed writing this and the soccer game from Thursday on my list of articles to write. – Mindy Date: 9/17 Opponent: Charleston Current Newton Record: 6-3 Freshman Results: 25-18 25-16 W JV
The Marching Eagles performed at the Edwardsville. The 2019 Marching Eagles show is titled Bloom. The Eagles will be hosting the Newton Band Classic on Saturday, September 28.
Newton defeated Lawrenceville with a final score of 28-14. Scoring at the end of the first quarter was 14-7 with Lawrenceville having the lead. During the second quarter, Newton took the lead with 14 points bringing the halftime score to 21-14. In the fourth quarter, the Eagles scored seven more