BEARDSTOWN — Drawn by a better-paying job, Andrea Agosto left her tropical home in Puerto Rico last summer and headed for Beardstown, a prairie city surrounded by cornfields and the Illinois River.

It’s only one short scene in a one-hour-and-37-minute movie. But for actor and Springfield-area native Chris Stapleton, getting to work with Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson was “a dream come true, really.”

There was something for everybody Saturday night as the 59th Class 3A Boys City Basketball Tournament concluded at the Prairie Capital Convention Center.
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More high school seniors in Sangamon County will compete this year in the Student of the Year scholarship program run by JPMorgan Chase Bank.

While most teenagers were sound asleep in the comfort of their nice warm beds early Saturday, Nick Menke and William Heidorn buried themselves in their sleeping bags for warmth on the floor of their handmade shelter. The boys, ages 15 and 16, and five other members of Sherman’s Boy Scout Troop 330 constructed a sort of lean-to out of a tarp, hay bales and metal and wooden poles on the grounds of Camp Illinek at Lake Springfield.