Congratulations to Lewistown Elementary's November Chief, Peyton Bull!
Congratulations to Grades 4-6 Red Ribbon Week Poster winners!
6th Grade: 1st Place-Drake Johnson, 2nd Place-Alexis Ramey, 3rd Place-Emily Ford
5th Grade: 1st Place-Cam Johnson, 2nd Place-CJ Custer, 3rd Place-Jaylen Mooney
4th Grade: 1st Place-Sydney Barnes, 2nd Place-Dawson Row, 3rd Place-Aubree Smith
Congratulations to Lewistown Central Elementary 4-6 grade November Star Students!
6th Grade: Kimberlyann Epps, Nicole Ross,
5th Grade: Alyssa Crossman, Morgan Massey
4th Grade: Paisley Garber
Way to go Junior High Science classes! We are proud of you community service efforts.
The HS GBB team improved to 4-0 and 2-0 in the Prairieland North Conference with their 52-4 win over Peoria Heights. Stats follow-
Joley McLaughlin 11pt 3rb 1ast
Abby Wiegand 7pt 3rb 1ast
Grace Bonney 7pt 2rb 1ast 2st
Adah Cripe 6pt 3rb
Mylie Sours 5pt 3rb 1ast
Abbie Johnson 5pt 2rb 3ast 3st
Addison Roddis 4pt 1rb 2ast 2st
Bel Bonney 3pt 1st
Sam Bonney 2pt 1rb 3st
Carsyn Braun 2pt 1rb 1ast 3 st
Lexi Parker 3ast 2st
Hannah Tindall 1rb
The 8th Grade GBB team won their Regional Semifinal game last night over South Fulton 40-15. The girls will play tonight at 6pm in Virginia against Brown County. We are working on taking a fan bus for grade 5-8. Sign up should be done by 12pm. Cost is $5. Bus will leave at 4:30pm from the JH/HS.
Scoring leader from the Semis were-
Cora Connolly 14pt
Aurora Orwig 11pt
Vanessa Yurkovich 7pt
Faith Tarvin 4pt
Addy Collins 2pt
Brooke Pasley 2pt
December breakfast and lunch menu for Central and Elementary.
This is a reminder that Lewistown Schools will dismiss early tomorrow, November 26th, for Thanksgiving Break. All high school students and early bus riders will dismiss at 1:45pm, Central/Elementary walking and pick-up students will be dismissed at 1:50pm, and the Central/Elementary buses will dismiss at 2:00pm. School will resume on Monday, December 2nd.
Checkout where you can find your Indian cagers on the hardwood this week.
Here are your 2024 Fulton County Tournament Champs, the Lewistown Indians! The girls went 3-0 this week to capture the title. Congratulations to Abby Wiegand for making the All Tournament Team! Stats for the championship game-
Joley McLaughlin 11pt 5rb 3ast 1st
Abby Wiegand 6pt 7rb 4ast 2st
Carsyn Braun 6pt 5rb 2st
Abbie Johnson 5pt 3rd 1ast 2st
Mylie Sours 2pt 5rb 1st
Grace Bonney 1pt 1st
Sam Bonnet 1pt
Lexi Parker 2rb 1st
John Barclay signed to play baseball for Eureka College today. Congratulations, John!
Through the work of Birth to Five Illinois Region 26 Early Childhood Regional Needs Assessment and Action Plan it was determined that growing child care providers in our community is a high need as stated by our data. Furthermore, child care was also identified as a goal through the recent work of the Lewistown MAPPING the Future of Your Community held at Lewistown Elementary in September of this year. Please help us by completing the following survey.
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The 7th and 8th Grade BBB fell to St. Vincent de Paul 49-18 and 38-27. Zakk Belless led the 7th grade with 7pts. Campbell Johnson led the 8th grade with 8 pts.
The HS GBB team beat South Fulton in the Fulton County Tournament 45-25 to run their record to 2-0. Leaders were-
Abby Wiegand 16pt 3rb 3ast 4st
Carsyn Braun 12pt 2rb 1st
Joley McLaughlin 8pt 8rb 2ast 2st
Abbie Johnson 5pt
Lexi Parker 2pt
Addison Roddis 2pt
Mylie Sours 7rb 2ast 2st
Grace Bonney 1rb
One basketball season is winding down while the others are heating up.
7th Grade GBB finished their season last Saturday with a close 1 point loss in the Regionals. The 8th Grade GBB teams starts Regionals this Saturday in Virginia.
The JH BBB teams have started play. Both 7th and 8th grade have 2-3 records .
HS BBB starts their season with the Fulton County Tournament on Monday in Havana.
The HS GBB team is 1-0 after a 40-21 win over Farmington in the Fulton County Tournament on Tuesday. Leaders in that game were-
Abby Wiegand 10pt 10rb 7ast 6st
Mylie Sours 9pt 3rb 1ast 1st
Joley McLaughlin 6pt 3rb 4ast 4st
Carsyn Braun 4pt 4rb 2st
Lexi Parker 4pt 3rb 1st
Grace Bonney 4pt 2rb 2st
Isabelle Bonney 3pt
The girls play again tonight at VIT against South Fulton at 6pm.
The Lewistown Truck and Tractor Pull presented a donation of $5,250 to Lewistown FFA last night. This event has raised $66,000 for local schools since 2018. Lewistown District 97 thanks you for your hard work, generosity, and support of our students.
Checkout where to find your Indians in action this week. High School Girls Basketball kicks off the Fulton County Tournament. #onetribe
Congratulations to these Indian Volleyball players who were named to the 2024 Prairieland-North All-Conference team! Way to go ladies!
Abby Wiegand, Senior-1st Team
Addison Roddis, Sophomore-2nd Team
Carsyn Braun, Freshman-Honorable Mention
Students from the LCHS Mentoring/ED 201 class recently traveled to Illinois State University for the Future Teachers Conference. This conference was developed for high school students who are considering a career in education. At the conference, students took a campus tour and participated in breakout sessions focused on various content areas of education.
These girls have been working hard in the weightroom! Welcome to the 600lb Club Janiyah Epps, Ahnna Richardson, and Morgan West.
Janiyah's lifts were- Bench 155, Squat 275, Deadlift 315
Ahnna's lifts were- Bench 110, Squat 245, Deadlift 245
Morgan's lifts were- Bench 95, Squat 245, Deadlift 265.
This afternoon, Lewistown Schools performed a test of our all-call communication system. This system will be used to communicate important messages including any school cancellations. If you did not receive this test message via phone call, text, or email but you want to receive future messages, please fill out the form at the following link or contact your student's school office to be added to our system.https://forms.gle/3sr4KddYURYTnSmNA