Routt Catholic High School has found it’s next Principal.
Routt officials announced today Teutopolis native, Dan Carie, has been hired as Routt Catholic High School’s new principal.
School Board President Rich Whalen says “After an extensive search, the attributes that Mr. Carie brings to Routt Catholic High School rose to the top,”
Mr. Carie is a 1982 graduate of Illinois College who received his degree in elementary education, with a concentration in science, while also participating in both mens’ basketball and track. He continued his education at Eastern Illinois University and received a Masters of Education Administration.
Carie says he is very excited to have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of current and future Routt students. He says Routt’s history of academics and athletics is strong and he wants to help raise both to the next level.
A class act: North Greene student McEvers one of just three Presidential Scholars in state
Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree, smcdaniel@myjournalcourier.com
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Sarah McEvers, a senior at North Greene High School, has been named a U.S. Presidential Scholar. She is one of just three selected from Illinois. Provided
WHITE HALL Running into her mother’s classroom at North Greene High School, senior Sarah McEvers couldn’t wait to share the news Thursday.
After checking her email, McEvers found she was selected as one of just 161 students from across the nation to be selected as a U.S. Presidential Scholar.
She is one of just three from Illinois.
American membership in houses of worship has plummeted to below 50% for the first time in eight decades of Gallup polling, from 70% in 1999 to 47% in 2020. And that shift away from organized religion has dovetailed with the rise of an intense form of partisan politics that some see as quasi-religious – providing adherents with a sense of devotion, belonging, and moral certitude.
From MAGA devotees on the right to social justice warriors on the “woke left,” political activism that can feel “absolute” in a religious way is rampant.
Especially among young people, “if your candidate wins, you have that ecstatic feeling,” says Ryan Burge, an expert on religion and politics at Eastern Illinois University who is also a Baptist pastor. A stump speech can feel like a tent revival. Donating regularly to candidates is like tithing.
Photo by Tim Klasinski Todd Miller has owned the Sliders since 2016. This year marks his sixth season as owner, if you count 2020. For Todd Miller, owner and general manager of the Springfield Sliders, waiting for next year has become a far longer pause than the traditional six-month off-season. In 2019, his team endured a disappointing summer with a losing streak that reached record lengths. Even now, two years later, you can hear the distress in Miller s voice as he recalls the summer of 2019, when the Sliders started their Prospect League season competitively but soon endured a team slump when nothing, absolutely nothing, went the team s way.
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Local high-school teacher and coach Jason Korkosz had never heard of a living liver donor until shortly before he became one for his sister, Kristen Batkiewicz.
Korkosz, a self-described “very careful, very protective person,” especially regarding his health, said the prospect of donating a portion of his liver “was a little scary at first.”
But Korkosz said he decided to help his sister regain her health after discussing the surgery’s success rate and other details of the living liver donation process. Key to his decision was his faith in University of Chicago Medicine’s doctors and their expertise, as well as their diligence in making sure that he was fully on board.