This is good news for fans of the Woodruff High School football team.
The Mid-State 6 Conference school hired Woodruff coach Tim Thornton as its newest head coach, notified when principal Randy Simmons called him hours ago.
“We put an emphasis on building a program and not a team at Woodruff,” Thornton said. “We’ll do the...
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Peoria Undrivability Update: City closes Woodruff for safety reasons
NEWS RELEASE
Date: November 6, 2009
Released by: Alma Brown, Communications Manager
Subject: ROAD CLOSURE
Please use caution when traveling WB and EB on Nebraska at Woodruff. Public Works Department was notified of a void at that intersection and has secured the area resulting in lane reductions in both directions on Nebraska. Also, both directions...
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See you at the game
I’m going to tonight’s Woodruff High School football game.
It’s the Warrior’s last home game EVAR.
I imagine I will return from the game sad and depressed. Which is why I didn’t want to go. But I feel I have to be there.
So, if you see me there, come over and say hello and cheer me...
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Sports: Woo Hoo!
The Woodruff Warriors are 3-0.
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Local: Tragedy waiting to happen on Abington Hill
Clare Jellick’s report is welcome, but hardly news. Teenagers have been goofing around and walking in the street on Abington Hill since I was a student at Woodruff High School more than 25 years ago.
Here are the causes:
The sidewalk is an almost constant state of disrepair and is covered with garbage, as well as...
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Today’s news: Taking responsibility
Today’s links, unless noted, are via the Journal Star:
The Journal Star’s article on Aaron Schock backtracking on his nukes-to-Taiwan position (read the posts here) does, in fact, include comments from the John Morris and Jim McConoughey campaigns. Spokespeople from both campaigns were quoted, not the candidates themselves. Did Morris and McConoughey NOT want to...
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Today’s news: Unopposed
Unless noted, all links are via the Journal Star:
Question: What do MOST members of the Peoria County Board have in common with Pakistan dictator Pervez Musharraf? Answer: Like Musharraf, their re-election is absolutely assured. According to this compilation of petition filings, JUST ONE single member of the PCB will face opposition from anyone in...
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Local: Did District 150 listen to neighborhoods this time? (UPDATED: PJS reports the district changes plans)
Did I hear right? I think I just heard WEEK reporter Jenny Li say that Peoria School District 150 is now planning to build two new Woodruff High School feeder schools to replace the four it has or plans to close? Six weeks ago, the district was telling folks that it was written in...
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Local: District 150 abandoning single-school concept?
District 150 started the first of four public hearings on the site of a new Woodruff High School feeder school insisting that there absolutely will not consider building two schools to replace the total of four they have or will close. But all the heard was plea after plea from the neighborhoods to not...
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Local: District 150 conveniently State Board of Education gets the facts wrong
C. J. Summers has been all over the Peoria School District 150 effort to tear down three grade schools (one is already closed) and replace them with one mega school. One of the arguments the district has made is that they are being required to do so by the state, in order to...
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Local: ‘Jena 6 situation right here in River City’
Here’s that letter that local NAACP leader Don Jackson is distributing:
In case you haven’t heard, we have a Jena 6 situation right here in River City. We call it the Manual 22, representing 22 Manual students who were recently ticketed by the Peoria Police department for walking along a street with no sidewalks,...
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Woodruff Warriors on the march
The score from last night’s away game: Woodruff 10 Rock Falls 7.
Hoo-Rah!
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Now Pryor’s foes are equating him with a murderer
Kudos to the Journal Star editorial board for printing letters like this one, which shows the depths to which Richard Pryor’s critics will sink to discredit the comedian.
A typical case is that of Duane L. Mitchell of Trivoli, who thinks that if Peoria further honors Pryor, the city might as well name a building...
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I told you Woodruff is the best high school in Peoria
And here is why:
Turns out, Woodruff has 30 staff members who are graduates, and another 24 who had a student in school or family member graduate from the school. Many of the staff members wanted to work at Woodruff to give others the positive nudge they got there.
Doug Atkins, dean of students, is a...
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Common sense flies the coop in case of gun-toting student
Remember the 15-year-old thug who was arrested for carrying a gun outside Greeley School? He had been the intended victim of the other kid who fired a gun inside Woodruff High School.
Omar Porter is 16 now and got sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday for unlawful possession of a firearm. With credit for...
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