Bourne plans traveling office hours
CARLINVILLE — State Rep. Avery Bourne has scheduled traveling office hours for Carlinville from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. He will be available at Carlinville City Hall, 550 N. Broad St., to assist...
View ArticleBridal Expo is coming to Hamilton’s
More than 40 vendors are scheduled to participate in Bridal Expo 2017 on Jan. 22 at Hamilton’s. Among the vendors will be photographers/videographers, reception venue managers, florists and bridal gown...
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Reader photo: Frozen
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Commentary: Defining, and protecting, all lives
Jan. 22 will mark the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal. Since that time, nearly 60 million babies have been killed in the womb, and that number climbs daily. As I...
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Photo: War on winter
Our Town Books owner Andy Mitchell sprinkles ice melt Saturday on the sidewalk in front of his business on the east side of Jacksonville’s downtown square. The Jacksonville area received a thin coating...
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Airman part of NFC game flag ceremony
An Air National Guard airman from Jacksonville will participate in today’s flag ceremony prior to the NFC divisional playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers. Texas Air...
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Commentary: Illinois Germans in an American war: Reshaping ethnic identity
“A horrible war has broken out between North and South America,” Albert Augustine wrote to his brother-in-law and siblings living in the tiny German state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He had immigrated to...
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Fire department calls on rise again
The number of responses for the Jacksonville Fire Department increased again last year, continuing a yearly rise that has gone on since 2011. There were about 2,100 calls for the fire department last...
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Upcoming Services (Jan. 15)
SUNDAY No services listed. — MONDAY • Ballard, Frankie C.J. 2 p.m. Monday at Airsman-Hires Funeral Home in White Hall. Visitation noon-2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. • Lidgard, Olive Mardell. 11...
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MONDAY • Ballard, Frankie C.J. 2 p.m. Monday at Airsman-Hires Funeral Home in White Hall. Visitation noon-2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. • Lidgard, Olive Mardell. 11 a.m. Monday at Chambersburg...
View Article130 donate blood during month
Donations were made by 130 people to the Central Illinois Community Blood Center during the January blood drives at Passavant Area Hospital. The Central Illinois Community Blood Center holds monthly...
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Police Beat
Morgan County Sheriff ARRESTS, CITATIONS • Jeremy J. Hawks, 40, of 2096 Strawn Crossing Road was lodged in the Morgan County Jail at 4:02 p.m. Sunday on a charge of telephone harassment. Jacksonville...
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Small-business survey shows hopes high
With America’s small business owner confidence soaring after the election, Illinois’ small business advocates said they’re waiting for the same effect in Illinois. Shortly after Donald Trump won the...
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Reader photo: Just passing through
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Slices of Life: Needing a vacation from vacation
We’d been looking forward to the week for months. We planned and packed and prepared to play. The months of waiting became weeks, the weeks became days and then it was here: vacation. Seven days of...
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Board looks at options for closed school
The Meredosia-Chambersburg school board discussed at its most recent meeting ways to sell the old elementary school building, including whether to list the building with a Realtor, take bids or put it...
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Commentary: Common-sense, law part ways over forfeiture
Henry County, a rural piece of western Illinois sliced by two interstates and the home of the “Hog Capitol of the World,” is hardly the place you would expect important constitutional issues to be...
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The way we were: Alcott visits Athens of the West
The Jacksonville literati welcomed “America’s Socrates,” Amos Bronson Alcott, to town in January 1871. Alcott was a well-known American philosopher, teacher, reformer and member of the New England...
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Senate vows swift action on budget plan
If last week’s action is any indication, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Illinois Senate are serious about attempting to bust the state’s 18-month budget deadlock — quickly. Democratic...
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Front row to history: South Jacksonville woman to attend Trump inauguration
In the sea of faces watching Donald Trump become the 45th president of the United States will be a South Jacksonville resident who has been anxiously waiting for the inauguration since the billionaire...
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