Seneca

This spring, Morgan Phillips and Emily Maze will leave their mark on Illinois Valley Community College in a way neither could have predicted when they were students there.

The Reddick Mansion Association invites students from the area high schools to come to the mansion and use its grounds for their 2024 prom photos. Prom attendees, as well as their families and friends, are welcome.

Illinois Valley Community College recognized Thomas J. McCormack Scholars and other academic honorees at its annual Student Academic Awards Ceremony on April 3.

After many years of planning, breaking ground in March of 2023, then 13 months of construction, Seneca High School unveiled its new 28,000-square-foot gymnasium to the public at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday night.

Seneca High School held a ribbon cutting ceremony their new high school gymnasium addition on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at Seneca High School. The gym boasts the largest high school video board in Illinois.

Illinois Valley Flute Ensemble and Bloomington-Normal Flute Club will present the Inspired by Starved Rock concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14, at Zion United Church of Christ, Peru, and again Sunday, April 21, in Bloomington.

Here are the La Salle County marriage licenses for March 2024.

Nursing instructor Amber Robertson of Seneca is the winner of Illinois Valley Community College’s 2024 Stephen Charry Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.

For the 30th consectuive year, Laborers Local 393 will be sponsoring a hunter safety course at its hall on April 13-14.

Seneca FFA members Ben Biros and Grayson Sobkowich were named State Proficiency Winners.

For the first time since 2019, the Illinois Valley All-Star Games will be played this spring April 20 at St. Bede. The players for the game were announced Tuesday.

Over the past two weekends 14 firefighters from MABAS 25 departments spent 40-plus hours learning the technical aspects of auto extrication and machinery rescue.

Eleven young computer design students from Seneca and Ottawa high schools advanced to state competition after competing in regionals at Illinois Valley Community College on March 8.

MABAS Division 25 hosted a Vehicle and Machinery Operations Class on Sunday at Senica’s Towing in La Salle. Over the past two weekends 14 firefighters from MABAS 25 departments spent more than 40 hours learning the technical aspects of auto extrication and machinery rescue.

The following students were selected by the Seneca High School teachers and staff as the February 2024 students of the month.