Category: Student Life
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Shooting threat at boys soccer game
The anticipated away boys soccer game against Urbana High School on Monday, September 12 came to an abrupt finish when there was an announcement to get inside because of a reported shooting. “I’ve always thought about what I would do in this situation, but the first thing that clicked was fight or flight.” Senior Jack…
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High school, a different lens for seniors
The Class of 2019 was the last class to have a “normal” high school career before the Coronavirus Pandemic struck the nation’s surface. The pandemic of 2020 caused schools around the globe to turn to online learning making it challenging, both physically and mentally, for most students. This year’s seniors have never gotten the chance…
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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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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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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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FFA fun days
February 21 through February 25 is National FFA Week. MHS’ FFA chapter celebrates this with dress-up days as well as fun games and events every day. FFA President, Ethan Robson, said, “It means a lot to celebrate our agricultural background as a chapter. It’s also a great bonding week for the members of our chapter…
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