December 2012

The Anna Arts Center in Anna is planning to present four shows during 2013.

Auditions already have been scheduled for two of the productions.

Performances are scheduled to include:

“The Stories of the Blue and Gray,” Feb. 9-10.

“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” Feb. 22-24.

“Little Shop of Horrors,” May 17-19.

“Cabaret,” Nov. 8-10.

Tickets for the productions are $12 each in advance and $15 at the door.

A season pass for all four shows is $45.

<strong>Mrs. Mary K. Eddleman, age 89 of Anna, died at 4:00 p.m. Saturday, January 26, 2013 in the Anna Rehab and Care Center in Anna. She was born December 10, 1923 in Anna, the daughter of Sam H. and Elsie Hess Dodson. She married Harold W. “Squeak” Eddleman on April 3, 1943 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.</strong>

<strong>         Mary is survived by one brother, Jim Dodson of Salem; and many long-time friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband, Harold W. “Squeak” Eddleman.</strong>

Union County State’s Attorney Tyler R. Edmonds announced that Travis W. Braden (DOB 08-25-1986) formerly of 713 Bluejay Drive in Carbondale has been sentenced to eight (8) years in the Illinois Department of Corrections on one (1) count of Residential Burglary, a Class 1 Felony.  Braden took several items from a residence on Wing Hill Road in rural Union County in November 2011.  The case was investigated by the Union County Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office.