I had the opportunity to work on an excellent production at Lewistown Community High School. We mounted a production of the musical Surf's Up earlier this month. We had three performances between March 10th, March 11th, and March 12th ( Read more... )

Lewistown, IL- Local Spanish teacher Greg O'Neill was as expected a huge, overgrown child when it came to today's blood donation at the annual Student Senate American Red Cross blood drive ( Read more... )

For a trip that was not without some hang ups, and the heaviness of taking a trip back to World War II, the performance by the Lewistown band was a huge bright spot, matched only by the euphoria in Across All Borders when Hitler dies, and the United States poured into the street to celebrate VE Day ( Read more... )

I am thirty-four years old, and after nine years of working, on and off, on an education degree at Western Illinois Univeristy, with some success, some failure, some growth and regression, I finally have a teaching job ( Read more... )

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Darth Winkler, a former student at Lewistown Community High School, and the son of football coach Darren Winkler ( Read more... )