The Southern Illinoisan: Local
- Rent One Park in Marion to host Ohio Valley Conference baseball championships
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 09:50 PMMike Pinto called it a coup.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - West Frankfort community responds after Morthland College announces it will close
Sunday - 06/03/2018 - 11:00 AMWEST FRANKFORT — Tim Morthland promised economic revitalization for Franklin County and Southern Illinois by opening Morthland College and its family of businesses — a research park that would produce energy drinks, a music conservatory, phone screen repair, even a…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Shawnee Hills Lavender Farm set to open for 2018 season
Friday - 06/01/2018 - 08:00 AMCOBDEN — Lavender has a lot uses.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Groups to showcase work of gardners in Carbondale and Marion
Wednesday - 05/30/2018 - 07:12 PMTwo groups in Carbondale and Marion will host garden tours in June.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former SIU football player says he had to save students during Indiana shooting
Monday - 05/28/2018 - 04:24 PMNOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A suburban Indianapolis teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student inside his classroom said Monday that his swift decisions "were the only acceptable actions" to save his seventh-grade students.
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Sunday - 05/27/2018 - 01:00 AMBOYD, Keri and Aaron, a son, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Offenders at Shawnee Correctional build doghouses, playhouses to support Southern Illinois nonprofits
Wednesday - 05/23/2018 - 07:00 AMVIENNA — Part of the programming for offenders sentenced to time in Shawnee Correctional Center, a medium security prison in Vienna, is education.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Makanda farmers to host farm-to-fork benefit for victim of drunk driving crash
Tuesday - 05/22/2018 - 06:36 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rend Lake Conservancy District lifts water conservation request
Sunday - 05/20/2018 - 02:00 PMThe Rend Lake Conservancy District on Sunday lifted a water conservation request that had been in place for several days following a water main break at Inter-City Water Plant on Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rend Lake Water District provides updates
Saturday - 05/19/2018 - 05:43 PMBENTON — Three days after a water main breach at the Rend Lake Conservancy District water plant, water is again flowing throughout the system, but a representative from Rend Lake said no one is out of the woods yet.
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- Our Fallen Heroes
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 06:12 PMSouthern Illinois service members who have died in active duty since 9/11 include:
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Sunday - 06/03/2018 - 01:00 AMBAYLON, Nichole and Derik, a daughter, Monday, May 21, 2018, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - $1 million for Cairo port project in state budget sent to governor Thursday
Thursday - 05/31/2018 - 08:28 PMSPRINGFIELD — As a budget goes to the governor’s desk, with it goes the dreams of Cairo’s port.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - West Frankfort under boil order; part of town, water shut off
Wednesday - 05/30/2018 - 05:08 PMWEST FRANKFORT — All West Frankfort water customers are under a boil water order.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Carbondale's Judge Services grows to be more than 'a guy with a pressure washer'
Sunday - 05/27/2018 - 10:00 AMCARBONDALE — Josh Judge of Carbondale has a dirty job. He wouldn’t have it any other way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Did Logan start Memorial Day? Logan museum director invites visitors to decide
Friday - 05/25/2018 - 07:00 AMHistory is the interpretation of facts, according to Mike Jones, director of General John A. Logan Museum.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Celebrating our Future' event ushers Carbondale eighth graders into high school
Tuesday - 05/22/2018 - 07:18 PMThe Women for Change/Unity in the Community Organization and Attucks Community Service are teaming up to sponsor a special send-off for eighth graders who are preparing to move onto the next phase of their educations in the fall.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jackson County Board to vote on supporting state gun laws
Tuesday - 05/22/2018 - 06:00 PMMURPHYSBORO — In just a few hours, the Jackson County Board will vote on a resolution in support of several pieces of gun resolution in Springfield.
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Sunday - 05/20/2018 - 01:00 AMBOETTCHER, Recena and STEWART, Dylan, a daughter, Saturday, May 5, 2018, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meridian Superintendent Byrd graduates from Illinois School for Advanced Leadership
Saturday - 05/19/2018 - 06:00 PMMeridian School District 101 Superintendent Spencer Byrd is one of 25 Illinois superintendents who completed the Illinois School for Advanced Leadership cohort.
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- Three Southern Illinois communities awarded $231,500 in federal grants
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 05:24 PMThree Southern Illinois communities will received USDA Rural Development grants totaling $231,500, according to a press release from U.S. Rep. John Shimkus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Perry County to host its own Illinois Bicentennial event Saturday
Friday - 06/01/2018 - 12:02 PMTAMAROA — Perry County is joining Illinois’ Bicentennial party by hosting its own event Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Severe weather leaves thousands without power in Southern Illinois
Thursday - 05/31/2018 - 08:24 PMCARBONDALE — Severe thunderstorms swept through Southern Illinois Thursday morning, causing power outages and damage to homes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - State bill that would allow a casino at Walker's Bluff still in limbo
Tuesday - 05/29/2018 - 07:00 PMCARTERVILLE — A gambling expansion bill the Illinois General Assembly fell one vote shy Monday to get out of the executive committee.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jackson County celebrates the sesquicentennial of a national Memorial Day
Monday - 05/28/2018 - 07:59 PMCarbondale and Murphysboro celebrated the Memorial Day Sesquicentennial with events in both towns on Monday.
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Friday - 05/25/2018 - 07:00 AMMemorial Day weekend, May 25 through 28
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - West Frankfort man transported to St. Louis hospital after 4-vehicle crash in Vergennes
Tuesday - 05/22/2018 - 07:13 PMOne man is recovering in a St. Louis hospital following a four-vehicle crash Tuesday morning on Illinois 13/127 in Vergennes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Juvenile airlifted to regional hospital after Sunday morning rollover crash in Ava
Tuesday - 05/22/2018 - 01:50 PMA traffic crash in Ava Sunday morning resulted in one juvenile being airlifted from the scene.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois relocates Mount Vernon office
Sunday - 05/20/2018 - 02:00 PMLutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois, one of the largest nonprofit child welfare agencies in Illinois, recently moved to a new office space at 618 S. 42nd St. in Mount Vernon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A new regional art museum is coming to Harrisburg
Saturday - 05/19/2018 - 07:00 AMHARRISBURG — Southeastern Illinois College announced Friday it has a groundbreaking date set for the construction of a new regional art museum on its campus.
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