KEWANEE—Monday, Jan. 25, was the date the Ridgewood Spartan girls went to Kewanee for a game against the Wethersfield Flying Geese.  The final score, Ridgewood 82, Wethersfield 73, makes the game look much closer than it ever was on the floor. As of Tuesday morning, Feb. 2, the Ridgewood Spartans were 25-2 overall and 8-0 in conference after being Stark County, 59-46.

WOODHULL—On Tuesday, Jan. 26, the Walt Minder Gymnasium in Woodhull was the site of a match up between the Ridgewood Spartans and the Galva Wildcats.  It was not a good night for the Spartans as they fell prey to the Wildcats, 69-54.
 

CAMBRIDGE—In a short meeting Tuesday night, Jan. 12, the Henry County Board learned the historic preservation agency Landmarks Illinois will contribute $50,000 towards the courthouse clock tower repair, part of  the $2.8 million project to repair the exterior of the 1880 Henry County Courthouse, in Cambridge.

CAMBRIDGE—Katie Jones, MSW, executive director of the Mental Health Association of Illinois Valley, Inc., spoke to a group of parents during the Cambridge Parent Network meeting Thursday night, Jan. 28, at the high school. Jones talked about Columbia University’s TeenScreen Program which will be held Monday, March 15, through Thursday, March 18, at the school for students in seventh through 12th grade.

CAMBRIDGE—By almost 800 votes on Tuesday, Feb. 2, Henry County voters rejected a sales tax increase intended to pay for renovations of the courthouse in Cambridge. The proposed increase of .25 percent, or 25 cents in $100, received 3,616 votes (44.8 percent) in favor and 4,460 (55.2 percent) in opposition. Turnout on Tuesday was light. Of the 37,309 registered voters in Henry County, only 8,435 (22.6 percent) actually cast ballots.

CAMBRIDGE—With smiling eyes, the reformed delinquent whose life was among those portrayed in the movie “Freedom Writers” on Friday, Jan. 22, engaged the student body of Cambridge Junior-Senior High School.