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This week's report from our hard-working group of student writers

Welcome to Year 3 of High School Confidential, an ambitious project made possible by aspiring student journalists from every corner of our circulation area. Each Wednesday through May, they’ll tell us what’s happening in their hallways at news-gazette.com.
This year’s panelists:

The proud village of Bement, known for its festive approach to celebrating Easter, has upped its game this year.

The proud village of Bement, known for its festive approach to celebrating Easter, has upped its game this year.

Today is Wednesday, April 17, the 107th day of 2019. There are 258 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On April 17, 1972, the Boston Marathon allowed women to compete for the first time; Nina Kuscsik was the first officially recognized women's champion, with a time of 3:10:26.
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With April designated as Child Abuse Prevention month, staff writer Mary Schenk sat down with the executive director of Urbana's Crisis Nursery, which is marking 35 years of service to children and families in Champaign County this year.

The revisions make it easier for both types of events to take place.

CHAMPAIGN — "Wine walks" and "queen of hearts" raffles will be coming to Champaign as early as this summer, now that Champaign City Council members have signed off on changes to the city liquor code.

The Rossville-Alvin Junior High math educator is known for doing fun, hands-on projects to engage her students, such as this week's 'Barbie bungee jump' with her eighth-graders.

If you stop by Rossville-Alvin Junior High this week, you just may catch JENNIFER REIFSTECK and her eighth-grade math students chucking Barbie dolls over the top of a stair railing.

A former Danville man testified Tuesday that on Aug. 1, 2015, Glen Torres paid him $200 to drive him around to look for two men he had been hired to gun down in revenge for a robbery and shooting the previous day.

U.S. District Judge James Shadid approved the closed-circuit video 'to accommodate members of the public and the victim's family.'

URBANA — The trial of accused kidnapper and killer Brendt Christensen will be streamed from the courthouse in Peoria to a viewing room at the Urbana courthouse, a recognition of the interest the University of Illinois community has shown in the case.

Today is Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, W.J. Jacobus of Champaign left town to work at the new Libby, McNeil and Libby Packing Plant in Alaska. He was the former circulation manager of the Champaign Daily News.
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The 14-member council was not in full agreement on the change, which will boost the tax from 6 to 7 percent and is estimated to generate $100,000 more for city coffers.

DANVILLE — A hotel room in Danville might cost guests a little more per night soon.