Ms. Erin Limestall

The amount of paperwork and prep required to take a day off as a teacher is wild. It’s honestly easier to just show up with my suffocating allergies.

Truth! 💯

With bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh, Olympia’s Mikenna Hill makes the diving catch to seal the 4-2 victory for the Spartans and earn the Heartland Credit Union “Lite of the Night!”

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We’re proud to announce our next Hometown Hero, Wyatt Oschwald - Cable and Antenna Operations 1D7X3 for the 183d Air Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard! Thank you Wyatt and all other heroes out there for everything you do!

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For the first time in Olympia history and #Channel1450 coverage history - a freshman has won a state wrestling title. Connor Collins gets it done at 106 pounds to claim the crown. Highglights & reaction from him and his dad/coach here: channel1450.com/2026/02/21/oly…

Congratulations to Connor Collins, who is your 1A 106 Pound STATE CHAMPION!! He is the first Freshman wrestler from Olympia to ever achieve this, and we are so incredibly proud and excited for what his future will hold!!

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Two Olympia students!!!

Trade schools have never been more important. We pushed “college for all” while starving skilled trades and now we’re paying for it. High wages. Real skills. Immediate demand.

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School taught us that C is average. Straight A’s mean you’ll be successful in life. Not necessarily. Some of the most prepared people for adulthood were C students. Not lazy. Not incapable. Just navigating a system that rewarded compliance more than capability. Grades are great at measuring one thing: How well you do school. They are terrible at predicting: Who can adapt Who can recover Who can communicate Who can lead when there’s no rubric C students learn those skills early—because they have to. They fail sooner. They adjust sooner. They stop waiting to be told what “good” looks like. Psychologists call it desirable difficulty. Life calls it preparation. And before someone says it, yes, many A students are wildly successful. This isn’t A vs. C. It’s a metrics problem. Grades correlate with success in structured systems. They don’t cause success in an unstructured world. Some A students succeed because they also have: resilience relational intelligence risk tolerance adaptability Those traits, not grades, help them succeed. And many C students excel because they’ve been practicing those skills their whole lives. In fact, two of the most successful investors on Shark Tank—a show built entirely around real-world success—were not top students. Daymond John was an average student and dyslexic. He didn’t do great in school. He did great with people, timing, and opportunity. Barbara Corcoran was a straight-D student and dyslexic. School didn’t play to her strengths. Failure didn’t break her. It built confidence, persuasion, and grit. None of them lacked intelligence. They lacked alignment. This isn’t anti-school. And it’s not anti-achievement. Because life doesn’t ask: What was your GPA? It asks: Can you adapt? Can you communicate? Can you recover when things don’t go as planned? Can you lead without being handed the answers? A lot of C students already can. And that might be the most underrated preparation of all.

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Late Start: Tuesday Dec. 2nd olympia.org/o/ohs/article/…

A college degree used to mean you were set. A job. A pathway. A future. But careers aren’t ladders anymore. They are lattices. People don’t climb straight up anymore. They move sideways, move diagonally, make big jumps, start over, reinvent. Most will change jobs a dozen times and switch career fields more than once. If that is the world they are entering, a degree alone will never be enough. We have to prepare students with the skills that actually carry them forward: resilience, adaptability, problem solving, and the ability to learn new things fast. These are the skills that last when the path keeps changing.

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"There's nothing like it high school sports." Hosting a playoff football game means so much more to small towns & communities in central IL From pork chops to combines- you'll get it all Olympia's Eric Lyons in this preview clip of the full video coming to #Channel1450

We still need to fill 23 donation spots. Please consider donating blood at our blood drive on Thursday Oct 30th. Link to sign up: redcrossblood.org/give.html/driv…