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Minooka Community High School has announced that the following students have earned a place on its honor roll for the spring. Included students have attained a GPA between 3 and 3.74 to earn honor roll recognition and 3.75 or higher to achieve high honor roll recognition at the end of the semester.

Shaw Media newspapers won 54 awards from the Illinois Press Association and Illinois Associated Press Media Editors at this week’s IPA convention in Bloomington. Shaw Media won 12 IAPME awards, including reporter Amanda Marrazzo of the Northwest Herald collecting the Sweepstakes honor for the top news story in all news categories in Division I for “.” She also won first place for general news for the same story.

Sometimes words are like seeds in the wind. Somehow they find a place to burrow and hope for blossom. And they must wait to be discovered. Like I did recently, finding words tucked within other words. I recently finished reading a book recommended by a friend: “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving. I had Irving books on my shelf because he belongs there – to be read someday. So I did. (It was not a page-turner, yet the characters became compelling and it wraps up as a helluva good story.