Browse past news stories for Brimfield High School in Brimfield, IL.

• Commandos fall victim to Brimfield's frustration (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
  posted on February 17, 2010 at 06:58:30 am
  It was a bad weekend for the Brimfield High School boys basketball team. That meant an awful Tuesday for Abingdon. On the same day the Indians lost the top spot in the Class 1A Associated Press Poll after two losses last week, Brimfield hammered the Commandos in Prairieland Conference play 55-30 in the regular-season finale for Abingdon.
• Property tax hike OK'd for new Brimfield high school (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on February 3, 2010 at 05:23:40 am
  Brimfield school district voters easily approved an increase to their property taxes on Tuesday for the construction of a $16.5 million high school. The new school, expected to be ready for occupation sometime in 2011, will replace the current school that was built in 1936.   With voter turnout low throughout the county for the primary election, 42 percent of registered voters in the school ...
• Brimfield basketball teams enjoying special seasons (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on February 2, 2010 at 03:02:01 am
  Much of the talk around town these days centers on the high school.   On Tuesday, residents of Brimfield Community Unit School District 309 will go to the polls to decide whether or not to support a $13.9 million bond issue that would fund a new high school.
• Brimfield asks voters to support new high school (WEEK-TV Peoria)
  posted on January 28, 2010 at 04:03:38 am
  Brimfield could see a new high school if voters approve a referendum on Feb. 2. More than 100 Peoria County residents turned out to Brimfield High School Wednesday night for the second public meeting on the issue.
• Brimfield H.S. plans draw questions (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on January 14, 2010 at 06:16:03 am
  About 120 residents of the Brimfield School District listened to architects, school officials and construction and financing experts Wednesday night at the Kickapoo Creek Winery as the date nears to decide whether to approve a $13.9 million bond issue to build a new high school.
• Brimfield High School meeting set (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on January 12, 2010 at 02:49:02 am
  Supporters and opponents of a $16.5 million high school, as well as those still making up their minds, will have a chance to air their opinions and ask questions at a meeting Wednesday.
• Vandalism reported at Brimfield High School (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on December 3, 2009 at 05:40:57 am
  Someone apparently broke into Brimfield High School earlier this week to vandalize weight-lifting equipment.
• 2009 Santa Parade winners named (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on December 1, 2009 at 04:56:07 am
  The results are in for who had the best floats in the 2009 Santa Claus Parade.
• Brimfield looks to build new high school (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 03:26:38 am
  Voters will decide in February whether to replace Brimfield High School, the Great Depression-era school that still relies on its 1936 boiler for heat in the cold weather months, with a modern $16.5 million school located on the same Clinton Street site.
• Bradley freshman golfer rendered ineligible by NCAA (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 03:11:33 am
  Bradley freshman Travis Kreiter has been ruled ineligible to play golf for the Braves this semester, and unless an appeal overturns the NCAA decision, his parents could be on the hook for a $32,000 tuition bill. “He was ruled a non-qualifier by the NCAA,” Bobby Parker, associate athletics director at Bradley, said of a decision rendered Sept. 9. “It’s under review, but the prospects of him being ...
• Traveling teachers (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on August 10, 2009 at 09:14:50 pm
  Don Sturm   Morton High School social studies teacher and department head Don Sturm learned about 11 Civil War battlefields on a 1,200-mile bus ride through Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee.
• Kickapoo takes 2 for title (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on August 10, 2009 at 03:18:08 am
  The wind knocked down fly balls like an invisible flyswatter during most of Sunday's Kickapoo Valley League title series doubleheader. But with the prize on the line, one player managed to beat Mother Nature.   Kickapoo's Alan Betourne had two home runs in the do-or-die finale, to help give his team a 5-1 win over Manito and a championship three-peat.
• KVL: Manito wins opener; Picture Perfect, MRM win (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on August 9, 2009 at 04:03:04 am
  Brody Bernhausen drove in three runs and Brett Rynearson pitched a one-hitter and fanned eight as Manito defeated regular-season champion Kickapoo 4-0 Saturday in the first game of the best-of-three Kickapoo Valley League title series.   Manito scored all the runs it would need in the first inning on back-to-back RBI singles by Bernhausen and Tim Wheat.
• Kickapoo and Manito again vie for league title (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on August 8, 2009 at 01:33:01 am
  Wyatt Wood expects history to repeat itself this weekend as his Kickapoo squad defends its Kickapoo Valley League baseball championship.
• Dreams of gold and black (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on August 6, 2009 at 04:04:04 am
  Late last summer, Brimfield High School girls basketball coach Jim Blane awoke in a panic. “I had a dream that Paige Spietz was playing in a black-and-gold uniform,” Blane said. “Everyone knows I’m kind of psycho about those things, but I thought it meant she might be moving to ROWVA to be a Tiger.”
• Peoria behind TazWood shed (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on August 2, 2009 at 05:16:45 am
  Team Peoria won Saturday’s big one at Coyote Creek.   But Team TazWood won more matches during the first day of competition in the Junior River Cup.