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Seniors Break Losing Streak
Homecoming week 2022, the seniors won the powderpuff games on a rainy Thursday night. All of the players got an hour to warm up before the game which gave them a good opportunity to learn the game before it went live. The seniors finally got a chance to play in the championship game against the…
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The return of snackline: Is it worth it?
This year, the school removed the free lunches provided in years past, resuming the lunch and snack lines. The snackline has now returned for the first time since the senior’s first year. Senior McKenzie Chrestman said, “I definitely miss how snackline was before COVID. While they’ve added some snacks this year, there’s nowhere near as…
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Select Sages take on the Illinois business competition
On Friday, April 22, Mr. Webb brought six of his most talented Business Club students to Lake Land College in order to compete in a state-wide business competition. Webb’s confidence was riding high going into the competition, and he stated that his team “actually had a shot at winning,” even though he believed he assembled…
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Sages softball takes 8-1 win over Tri-Valley
Taylor Dyer, Staff Writer dyeta24@sages.us
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A new team, a new season
The 2022 soccer season for the Lady Sages has officially started. The girls have put up a 3-2-2 record only two weeks into the season. Two-thirds of the team are new, inexperienced girls that are just now learning the game. It’s no surprise that everyone is catching onto the game, but something even more special…
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MHS Business Club takes over Lakeland
On Friday, April 22, Monticello High School Business Club students will be traveling to Lakeland College in Mattoon, IL to compete in a business competition with other Illinois high schools. The competition is made up of six tests. Each student is assigned to one test: General Business, Accounting, IT, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Monticello…
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Announcing for friends
Last year, during the delayed spring baseball season, the boys baseball team was looking for students to announce the players. Since seniors Dylan Ginalick and Ben Cresap don’t play any spring sports, they decided that they would announce for their school’s baseball team. What they didn’t realize was that they would announce for some of…
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Just running around
The MHS track team is quickly making its transition from indoor to outdoor season. The outdoor season allows for more events on both the boys and girls sides, including the 300 meter hurdles and the discus throw. The Sages will travel all over central Illinois in the coming months until the state meet at the…
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Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid, is a standalone novel that depicts the life of a new movie star and how she makes her way up to the top. The story begins with Evelyn asking writer Monique Grant if she will write the story of Evelyn’s life. At first,…
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Pushin’ P(okemon)
On July 6th 2016, the landscape of mobile video games would change forever as Niantic, in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokemon Company, released Pokemon Go. At its peak, Pokemon Go would have 380,000,000 playing its game: catching a plethora of pokemon and battling other players with the pokemon they caught. Even Hillary Clinton tried…
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