State Speech Set To Begin

While most High School sports are allowed to compete against schools their size – the lone exception (And yes, I beat this dead horse a lot) is competitive speech. Schools as small as Stockton, River Ridge and Galena will be going straight up against Freeport, Sterling and Byron at this Saturday's Speech Regional.

Each school can only pick one student (or team of two) to represent them in each of the 14 speech events, and only the top four will advance on to the Sectional competition to be held in Rochelle next week.

The award for getting there, is having to compete against kids from the reall...