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Senate leaders promise budget-deal vote
Senate leaders plan to vote on a compromise budget deal next week, and hope the House will be willing to work with them on a measure to end the near-two-year state budget stalemate. Democratic Senate...
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Upcoming Services (Jan. 21)
TODAY (SATURDAY) • Buss, Joni Lee (Lockaby). 3 p.m. today at the Hendricker Funeral Home in Mount Sterling. Visitation 1-3 p.m. today at the funeral home. • Bruner, Whitney Elaine. Memorial service 1...
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It’s your business
Amy Jackson is the Jacksonville Area Chamber of Commerce volunteer of the month for December. Jackson has served as a presenter for several chamber seminars in the past years, most recently helping on...
View ArticleAttorney honored for pro bono work
Jacksonville attorney Ryan Byers is the 2016 recipient of the Joseph R. Bartylak Pro Bono Award presented by the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation Northern Regional Office. Byers is a...
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Shelf Life
What’s new at the Jacksonville Public Library: ADULT FICTION “Mischling” by Affinity Konar: Twelve-year old twins Pearl and Stasha are plucked from Auschwitz by Josef Mengele to be subjected to Nazi...
View ArticleCrime Seen
Anyone with information about these or other crimes can call the appropriate Crimestoppers number. Callers can be anonymous; a reward of as much as $1,000 will be paid for information leading to an...
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Reader photo: Touch of spring
An orchid starts to bloom. “This is a very young plant with only two blooms, but they are beautiful,” said reader Vonna Park. “Something nice to see in January.” .neFileBlock { margin-bottom: 20px; }...
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Police Beat
Morgan County Jacksonville Police ARRESTS, CITATIONS • Dylan E. Miller, 25, of 1415 W. Lafayette Ave. was booked into the Morgan County Jail at 7:42 p.m. Friday on a charge of possession of a...
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Helping the helpers: Soup Kitchen provides more than food
Some have had to reduce hours or services and others are using reserve funds to continue. Although these groups receive funding from Prairieland United Way, those funds are also limited and were...
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School board studies boundary options
The District 117 school board has eliminated some scenarios from possible attendance boundary changes that will be made for fall 2018. Superintendent Steve Ptacek said the 220 survey results from the...
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ISD Fulbright scholar going to New Zealand
Illinois School for the Deaf students, faculty and staff gathered Friday to extend well wishes to a veteran ISD teacher who will go abroad to hone her educational skills. Sherry Humphries of...
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Commentary: Shutting up those who offend us
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably...
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Upcoming Services for Jan. 22
TODAY (SUNDAY) • Smith, Nicholas Wayne “Nick.” 2 p.m. today at the Wood Funeral Home in Rushville. Visitation 1-2 p.m. today at the Wood Funeral Home in Rushville. — MONDAY • Denison, Jocelyn. Noon...
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MONDAY • Denison, Jocelyn. Noon Monday at Pittsfield United Methodist Church. Visitation 10 a.m.-noon Monday at the church. Airsman-Hires Funeral Home in Pittsfield is in charge. • Fricke, Emilie Ann...
View ArticleAgenda — Jacksonville council
Jacksonville City Council will meet in regular session today following a 6 p.m. workshop but no later than 7 p.m. Among the items on the agenda are approval of a liquor license for Whobe Italian and...
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Police Beat
Morgan County Sheriff ARRESTS, CITATIONS • Jonathan A. Juarez Ramirez, 21, of 919 Monroe St., Beardstown, was lodged in the Morgan County Jail at 10:02 a.m. Sunday on charges of driving under the...
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Initiative aims to make health an everyday choice
PITTSFIELD — An Illini Community Hospital study is sparking a new health initiative that aims to make Pittsfield residents healthier on a daily basis. The health initiative, titled “Me, Only Better,”...
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Analyst: Budget deal full of poison pills
The evolving proposal coming out of the state Senate attempting to break the year and a half long budget logjam may just serve to make Illinois’ problems with outbound migration even worse. That’s...
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Corporate tax hike would give put state among highest
The nonpartisan Tax Foundation said a proposal to increase Illinois’ corporate income tax could make Illinois the fourth highest corporate tax state in the country. As part of a compromise to get...
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Commentary: More money, less accountability
On Jan. 5, Harvest Public Media reported that “a federal investigation has been launched into the alleged embezzlement of $2.6 million by an employee” of the Oklahoma Beef Council. According to the...
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