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Lewis and Clark Community College GED is starting this summer. Carlinville, Staunton, and Jerseyville are getting ready for the summer semester. The dates for Orientation and Registration are as follows: Carlinville, May 14 and May 20 at 9 a.m.; Staunton, May 14 and May 21 at 4 p.m.; and Jerseyville, May 15 at 4 p.m. and May 20 at 5 p.m. To make a reservation, please call (618) 468-4110....
Litchfield High School and Mt. Olive softball is holding a Kids Camp on June 4 thru June 6, for ages 5 to 14 years old. If anyone would like to sign up, this can be done by filling out the form 2024 LHS Softball Youth Clinic Registration form, this can be found at https://www.mtoliveschools.org/project-two-255h9, once filled out, please turn in form to the Mt. Olive High School office....
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Staunton High School will celebrate commencement for the Class of 2024 on Saturday, May 18 at 2 p.m. Graduating seniors will be recognized for their achievements. Recipients of scholarships and awards offered by various organizations and groups will alsoo be recognized....
Mississippi Culture, located at 201 S. Union St., in Staunton, will be hosting Food Truck Friday's for the summer. The food trucks will be operating from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday's. While waiting for the freshly made food, please check out Staunton's hidden gem, being the city's local brewery of german style Saison beer and live music during the weekends. The food truck schedule for Food Truck Friday's is as follows: May 31 - M&K BBQ Food Truck; June 21 - OTW Taco Truck; July 5 - M&K BBQ Food...
Blake Moore, a senior at Staunton High School, recently wrapped up his tenure as a student board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Blake's future plans are to attend the University of Illinois Gies School of Business to study Marketing....
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Lewis and Clark Community College is meeting the changes and challenges in the growing real estate field by offering classes to help individuals enter that career field as brokers. An individual must pass a total of 75 hours of instruction to take the Real Estate Broker’s licensure exam. Lewis and Clark is offering three different classes of Real Estate, all of which are needed for the exam: Real Estate Brokerage (REAL 135-T60) – 7-9:40 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays, May. 20 – August 7, 2024 Real Estate Transactions (Two sections avail...
BY TOM EMERY The Carlinville Public Library will offer a busy slate of activities this summer, led by one of its most popular programs for young readers. “Read, Renew, Repeat” is the theme for the 2024 Summer Reading Program, which includes fun and enriching activities for all ages in June and July. “We’re really excited about this year’s program,” said Hannah Miller, the director of the Carlinville Public Library. “We have our old favorite activities, as usual, but we’re doing a lot of new activities as well, things that will be new and fres...
The American Historical Association has issued a statement “deploring recent decisions among college and university administrators to draw on local and state police forces to evict peaceful demonstrators.” Pointing to historical events on campuses such as Kent State University and Jackson State University in 1970, as well as the “Orangeburg Massacre” of 1968, the AHA “urges everyone involved to learn from that history and turn away from the violent escalation we are now seeing on campuses.” The AHA “urges administrators to recognize the...
Illinois's Seventeenth Annual Farmers Market Begins May 16 The Illinois Department of Agriculture’s (IDOA) Illinois Product Farmers Market will begin with “Opening Day” at the Market, Thursday, May 16 from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Shed on the Illinois State Fairgrounds. “The 17th annual Illinois Product Farmers Market is a celebration of agriculture at the local level and a fantastic opportunity to spotlight the small to mid-sized businesses offering Illinois products,” said Jerry Costello II, Director of the Illinois Department of Agricultu...
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is accepting applications for the State Furbearer Fund Special Funds Grant Program through May 24. The State Furbearer Fund provides grants to appropriate not-for-profit organizations, governmental entities, educational institutions, and corporations for projects that benefit fur-bearing mammals and improve harvesting opportunities for hunters and trappers of furbearers. Fur-bearing mammals are defined as badger, beaver, bobcat, coyote, grey fox, mink, muskrat, otter, opossum, raccoon, red...
The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial status of the health of the Social Security Trust Funds. The combined asset reserves of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASI and DI) Trust Funds are projected to have enough dedicated revenue to pay all scheduled benefits and associated administrative costs until 2035, one year later than projected last year, with 83 percent of benefits payable at that time. In the 2024 Annual Report to Congress, the Trustees announced: The...
The Coalition for Pet Progress is excited to announce: "Operation Pit (And Kit) Stop," a community-wide collaborative effort to spay and neuter up to 1,200 owned pitbulls and pitbull mixes, and community cats, sponsored by Coalition for Pet Progress and Wings of Rescue. This event will take place from March 23, 2024 to May 18, 2024, and will cover throughout the Greater St Louis and Metropolitan Illinois region with these eight amazing organizations providing surgeries: Animal Protective Association of Missouri (APA); Belleville Area Humane...
Friday, May 10, 2024, the eve of the anniversary marking the end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) declarations put in place at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of Illinois released a playbook detailing measures the state should take to prepare for future public health emergencies as well as recommendations for future administrations that may have to navigate public health crises. “Following a once-in-a-century event like the COVID-19 pandemic it is critical that we take the time to thoroughly study how our state responded to t...
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the Illinois Prescribed Fire Council (IPFC) are joining forces to encourage all prescribed fire practitioners to “map your burn” and contribute to the annual Illinois Prescribed Fires Accomplished Map. The Prairie State has a rich natural history dominated by prairies, which historically were shaped and sustained by fire. From prairies to wetlands, savannas to woodlands, fire has played a pivotal role in shaping Illinois’ natural communities for thousands of years. Prescribed fire – also k...
The date of May 8 is one that may be one of the most influential and significant dates that the U.S. along with millions of families have ever experienced. Today is Wednesday, May 8, 2024 and exactly 79 years ago to the date of May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany finally surrendered to the Allied Powers. The City of Staunton covered the war extensively in its old newspaper issues and would oftentimes give updates on local people that were in the service. Presented below is an article that was published in the Staunton Star-Times’ May 10, 1945 n...
Attention Gillespie High School Juniors, a second dose of meningitis is required for Senior year. Gillespie CUSD Number 7 with the Macoupin County Public Health Department will be hosting the Spring immunization clinic on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at Ben-Gil Elementary School and Gillespie High School. The clinic is immunizations only, for students entering grade five or Juniors for school year 2024-2025. Remember the Gillespie school exclusion date for physicals and immunizations is Sept., 1, 2024. Online registration for the mobile clinic is on...
Worden Public Library’s next family program is scheduled for Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. The featured book will be The Truth About Dragons, by Julie Leung, with illustrations by Hanna Cha. In Leung's book, a small boy learns about dragons from his two grandmothers. Each has a different version of what a dragon is. One says that dragons dwell underground and are “fearsome and fire-breathing,” with lizard bodies and bat’s wings. The other maintains that they are “majestic creatures of air and fire,” with serpents’ bodies and five claws on each l...
The Staunton Glow Ride was held the evening of, Saturday, April 27, in between the rain showers. The event, benefitting Staunton Chamber of Commerce, attracted nearly 50 cyclists. The Staunton Fire and Police Departments led the riders through the community....
Worden Public Library’s next family program is scheduled for Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. The featured book will be The Truth About Dragons, by Julie Leung, with illustrations by Hanna Cha. In Leung's book, a small boy learns about dragons from his two grandmothers. Each has a different version of what a dragon is. One says that dragons dwell underground and are “fearsome and fire-breathing,” with lizard bodies and bat’s wings. The other maintains that they are “majestic creatures of air and fire,” with serpents’ bodies and five claws on each l...
April showers arrived this year, along with the ups and downs of spring temperatures that averaged out to above normal, according to Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford at the University of Illinois’ Illinois State Water Survey. April is a transition month in Illinois, moving from winter to summer. As with most years, last month gave a taste of all seasons. April average temperatures ranged from the high 40s in up north to the low 60s in southern Ill., between one and four degrees above n...
Staunton Baseball and Softball League Hardee’s fundraiser. Come on out to eat at Hardee's in Staunton on Friday, May 10 from 2 p.m. until close. A portion of all sales will be donated to the Staunton Baseball and Softball League. Please come out and help support the local little league....
McKendree University’s chapter of Phi Eta Sigma academic honor society is proud to announce its newest member, Staunton's Ethan Vanputte.Vanputte was inducted on Tuesday, April 25, 2024. Founded in 1828, McKendree University’s historic Lebanon campus is 25 miles from St. Louis, Mo. McKendree also offers degree programs online and is one of U.S. News’, "Best Regionals Universities," "Best Value Schools," and "Best Colleges for Veterans, in the Midwest."...
Mississippi Culture, located at 201 S. Union St., in Staunton, will be hosting Food Truck Friday's for the summer. The food trucks will be operating from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday's. While waiting for the freshly made food, please check out Staunton's hidden gem, being the city's local brewery of german style Saison beer and live music during the weekends. The food truck schedule for Food Truck Friday's is as follows: May 10 - Off The Wall (OTW) Taco Truck; May 31 - M&K BBQ Food Truck; June 21 - OTW Taco Truck; July 5 - M&K BBQ Food Truck;...