Carbondale, IL | featured news

HURST — Roger Schuttek of Hurst knows how hard it is for small farms to stay in business. He and Tina Benz own Big Muddy Hogs, a small pasture-based farm that raises livestock humanely without antibiotics or other drugs.

Interstate 57 was closed for five and a half hours Saturday morning between Whittington and Ina while police investigatea a fatal traffic crash with a fatality was investigatedand the scene cleaned up, according to a press release from Illinois State…

Over Thanksgiving, a dear friend, Stu Leach, said, “You know how time seems to fly by when we are older but as kids, it seems like it stood still?”

The Southern Illinoisan obituary department will be closed Sunday, Dec. 24. The obituary department will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 25. Obituaries received Dec. 24 and before 4 p.m. Dec. 25 will be be printed in the…

Jim Koonce has a goal: To place wreaths on the graves of all veterans buried in Mound City National Cemetery. Koonce and Honor Wreaths for Veterans, a Marion-based charity he founded, are getting closer.

INA — After 25 years with the school, Chris Nielsen, Rend Lake College’s dean of applied science and technology, will be passing the torch of his department off to what he said are “great people” who will treat his program…

The Southern Illinoisan obituary department will be closed Sunday, Dec. 24. The obituary department will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 25. Obituaries received Dec. 24 and before 4 p.m. Dec. 25 will be be printed in the…

MARION — Amber Neal said there is a silent need in Southern Illinois, and she is thrilled to help fill it.

The Southern Illinoisan obituary department will be closed Sunday, Dec. 24. The obituary department will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 25. Obituaries received Dec. 24 and before 4 p.m. Dec. 25 will be be printed in the…

WARE — When wounded veterans are discharged, they not only leave their units and base, but they also lose their support systems. One group of volunteers has spent the past nine years trying to make up for that loss.