Ironmen baseball erased a four-run deficit and beat the surging Huntley Red Raiders in dramatic fashion at home May 22. Drew Stevens’ game-tying three-run home run in the seventh set up Andrew Naour’s walk-off double as Community rallied past one of the state’s top teams. With the win in Friday’s...

The question was a simple one. Too simple. Who’s the best at ping pong? All four Michaels siblings answered at once, each building a case, citing specific matches and disputed outcomes that seemed to stretch back for years. They talked over each other, around each other, through each other—until...

The school year ends the same way every time: slowly, then all at once. You look up and it’s June, and you need something to do with all that unstructured time. For me, that something became guitar. My introduction came in November of 2023 when one of my best friends dadsoffered me an old...

Community baseball clinched its third consecutive Big 12 Conference championship Monday, dismantling Bloomington 12-0 on the road as junior Kyle Glass delivered a seven-inning, three-hit complete-game shutout to move the Ironmen to 30-2 on the season. The Ironmen—who reached 30 wins for the second...

Have you ever read a book you thought was a bit too intense for school?  Maybe it was an assigned read, or something you pulled off the library shelf on your own. But what if one day that book just disappeared? Poof. Gone, leaving nothing but empty space where it used to be. Right now, Illinois...

For two decades, Mrs. Mindy Ewalt coached the Iron dance team, leading them to IHSA state six times, including a program-best finish in 2022, and winning the Illinois Drill Team Association state title seven times. All this from someone who never danced in high school. Ewalt, who has taught dance fitness...

The Inkspot placed sixth at the IHSA Journalism State Final at Heartland Community College on April 24, scoring 16 points and sending home four medal entries—both program records—as junior Anna Chang claimed the top spot in Copy Editing. Chang becomes just the third Ironman in school history to...

The Unit 5 Board of Education unanimously approved an amended enrollment plan Wednesday, shaped by community feedback and aimed at improving equity across the district, with some changes taking effect as early as the 2027-28 school year. The vote marks the district’s first substantial redistricting...

By the time their senior seasons concluded at the IHSA state finals at FMC Natatorium, Wade Pyle and Sam Grojean had done far more than qualify for state meets and break records. They changed the trajectory of the program. Over the last four years, Pyle and Grojean anchored the most successful...

Iron softball routed Champaign Centennial 17-2 in four innings Thursday, giving Community back-to-back wins for the first time since early April and improving the Iron to 6-8 overall, 2-0 in the Big 12 Conference. Centennial struck first with two runs in the top of the opening inning, but Community...

Riding back-to-back wins capped by a 20-0 shutout of Bloomington, Iron softball headed into the weekend to face its stiffest test of the young season against 11-3 Dunlap. Wednesday’s run-rule rout lifted Community to 4-5 overall and 1-0 in Big 12 play, closing out a challenging opening stretch that...

The first television adaptation of William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” landed on Netflix May 4—and for students who spent a semester dissecting the novel in sophomore English, this four-part series arrives with a lot to prove. The adaptation, written and directed by Jack Thorne and originally...

Click to play the Inkspot’s newest game, Cinemojis, where Arwen Georgas challenges you to figure out the title of a 2025 film using emoji clues.

Let’s be honest: our feeds are engineered for brainrot—6-7, chopped chin, Nathaniel B videos that keep looping until our minds go numb. Our screens are flooded with the quick, the loud, the mindless—each swipe, each scroll offering a bite-size serving of dopamine. But entertainment doesn’t...

The school year ends the same way every time: slowly, then all at once. You look up and it’s June, and you need something to do with all that unstructured time. For me, that something became guitar. My introduction came in November of 2023 when one of my best friends dadsoffered me an old...

Have you ever read a book you thought was a bit too intense for school?  Maybe it was an assigned read, or something you pulled off the library shelf on your own. But what if one day that book just disappeared? Poof. Gone, leaving nothing but empty space where it used to be. Right now, Illinois...

18 months ago, I almost became a statistic. In January 2025, Community students received an email advertising a paying job—no experience required, just a Google Form asking for personal information, which, if you think about it, is all a scammer really needs. Unit 5 caught it quickly and began...