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Weather radar offline during upgrade
The weather radar used by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Lincoln will be down for three to four days starting Monday to allow technicians to install an upgrade. The work will be...
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Photo: Country comfort
Debbie and Dave Harris of Jacksonville look at the Trace Adkins merchandise Friday during the Morgan County Fair. Anne Critchelow (right) of Jacksonville gets her wristband from Michael Howard for...
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Cone with a Cop program set
Police are reaching into neighborhoods next week through the Cone with a Cop program. Jacksonville police representatives will be at Charlie’s Coffee & Cones, 115 W. Lafayette Ave., from 6 to 8...
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After decade absence, NWTF chapter plans a return
A chance meeting is leading to the reestablishment of a Jacksonville chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation after nearly a decade. The federation is a non-profit group with the mission of...
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Closed school gets nibble of interest from fish processor
A shuttered Meredosia-Chambersburg school building could see new life as a processing plant. Superintendent Thad Walker told school board members he has received an inquiry about the closed elementary...
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Reader photo: Aerial view
A dragonfly rests on the leaf of a plant in Winchester. Dragonflies have some of the largest eyes in the insect kingdom and can see both in front and behind them at the same time. .neFileBlock {...
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Upcoming Services for July 15
TODAY (SATURDAY) • Bailey, Beth. Graveside services 12:30 p.m. today. Colwell Memorial Home in Beardstown is in charge. • Fortney, Gary Dale. 11:15 a.m. today at Colwell Memorial Home in Beardstown....
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Jacksonville Bancorp (NASDAQ: JXSB) has reported unaudited net income for the three months ended June 30 of $806,000, or 45 cents a share of common stock, compared to unaudited net income of $766,000,...
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Tractor-trailer strikes police cars during stop
A Hannibal, Missouri, truck driver was cited after police said his vehicle struck two police cars during a traffic stop on Interstate 72 on Saturday. According to an Illinois State Police report, a...
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Food, shelter funds available
Morgan County has been awarded $7,103 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs. The federal funds are being made available through the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency...
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Slices of Life: Club or pole? The debate of summer
Summer brings out two vastly diverse species of sports people wielding sticks, and I’m not referring to hockey and lacrosse. I’m talking about fishing poles and golf clubs. While not impossible, it is...
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Professor peers into past of the poor
Indian Kate, a woman believed to be of Native American descent, lived for 70 years at the Morgan County poorhouse. “Indian Kate was one of the most fascinating stories of a long-term resident of the...
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Upcoming Services for July 16
TODAY (SUNDAY) No services listed. — MONDAY • Elledge, Tolbert R. “Toby” Jr. 10 a.m. Monday at Airsman-Hires Funeral Chapel in Griggsville. Family will meet friends 5-7 p.m. today at the funeral...
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MONDAY • Elledge, Tolbert R. “Toby” Jr. 10 a.m. Monday at Airsman-Hires Funeral Chapel in Griggsville. • Genseal, Norman Lee “Pete.” Graveside service 10:30 a.m. Monday at Beardstown City Cemetery....
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Police Beat
Morgan County Sheriff ACCIDENTS • Paul R. Frazier, 57, of Jacksonville was treated at Passavant Area Hospital and then transferred to a Springfield hospital after being injured about 8:57 p.m. Saturday...
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Pulling their weight
Declan Lahey, 10, of Murrayville pulls 18.639 feet in his event to take third place Sunday afternoon in the Morgan County Fair’s pedal tractor pull. John Cummings of Dow rides the newer model of two...
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The way we were: Morgan County Fairgrounds has a rich history
U.S. Rep. Schuyler Colfax of Indiana gave an address as the 1860 Illinois State Fair opened in Jacksonville. The state fair was held on the same site as today’s Morgan County fairs, property the Morgan...
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Reader photo: Family affair
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Commentary: The expensive non-broadband blues
Twelve years ago this month, the lovely Catherine and I moved from a three-story, oak-lined Victorian house in town to a modern, all-brick home in an unincorporated rural community 6 miles north. The...
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Commentary: Deep in the heart, it’s taxes
I was in Texas last month doing some reporting and I was a bit bemused that its legislature was enmeshed in a budget predicament of its own. Lawmakers there were pondering whether to dip into the...
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