Normal Community High School

The World Cup is among many major sporting events on Hardiman’s calendar. He was at the Kentucky Derby in May and in New York for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes. He was in Oklahoma City recently for the NBA Western Conference Finals and works a number of top-level tennis tournaments, including the U.S. Open.

Students and staff at Normal Community High School returned home Tuesday after a call broadly threatening the school prompted an emergency response.

Families of Normal Community High School students are now being permitted to pick up their children after an unspecified threat led to the cancellation of classes on Tuesday.

An experimental music ensemble made up of high schoolers from Normal has dropped a new LP and is preparing for a concert at the McLean County Museum of History.

Normal Community, Normal West and Bloomington High School play in a co-op for girls lacrosse. A new IHSA rule makes it ineligible for playoffs starting in 2027.

Unit 5 was accepted for the News Literacy District Fellowship to provide $30,000 in grant funding over the next three years, beginning in the fall.

Students and staff at Normal Community High School feel that a regional Teacher of the Year award is well deserved for one of their own.

The Illinois State Board of Education selects one teacher from each region for the recognition. Don Whitman is among 14 teachers statewide eligible for Illinois Teacher of the Year.

For the first time at Normal Community High School, students will have the chance to participate in presentations on technology, entertainment or design—better known as a TED Talk.

What happens when your toughest coach is also your dad? Illinois State defensive coordinator Travis Niekamp is pushing sons Tye and Dexter — and the Redbirds — to the brink of the national championship game.