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8 hours ago | news-gazette.com | Anthony Zilis

Students in Jeanette Brosam’s class are rarely left without an engaging activity. Throughout the year, the 24-year teaching veteran and her students hatch chicks through the Champaign County Farm Bureau’s Chicks in the Classroom program, sort themselves into “houses” during her Harry Potter read-aloud, make igneous rocks from Airheads candy, make volcanoes that erupt and much more.

3 days ago | news-gazette.com | Matt Daniels

BOSTON — Susannah Scaroni has done it again. The University of Illinois graduate won her second Boston Marathon title on Monday, crossing the finish line first to win the women's wheelchair division with a time of 1 hour, 35 minutes and 20 seconds. This is the second Boston Marathon victory of Scaroni's career after the 33-year-old won the 2023 event.

4 days ago | news-gazette.com | Lori Borgman

Our youngest daughter called the other day sounding harried. “I’m in the middle of cooking, and I’m short an egg. Is it still OK to borrow an egg from a neighbor?”I didn’t know what to say. Miss Manners never covered this one. Then again, Miss Manners probably never paid more than 75 cents for a dozen eggs. It used to be fine to borrow an egg. Eggs were so cheap, some people threw them at other people’s houses.

5 days ago | news-gazette.com | Matt Daniels

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5 days ago | news-gazette.com | Matt Daniels

To subscribe, please click hereWant a copy of today's edition? Here's a map of single-copy locationsSports Editor Matt Daniels with a look at what's going on around the area:Three reasons we love sports today➜ 1. Less than a week until the NFL draft takes place at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.