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An annual job fair is planned March 15 at Shawnee Community College near Ullin.
The job fair is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Edward M. Smith Center on the college’s main campus.
The event, which is open to the public, is being hosted by the Shawnee Community College Career Services...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has urged members of the Illinois Senate’s Criminal Law Committee to pass legislation to eliminate the statutes of limitations for felony criminal sexual assault and sexual abuse crimes against children.
Madigan testified March 7 before the Senate Criminal Law...
Shawnee Pride was presented at Shawnee Community College in Ullin on Thursday, March 2.
The event brings band students from the area together to practice and then to present a concert.
Shawnee Community College band director Lee VanAlstine worked with students for one day before the performance....
Shawnee Community College’s Future Teacher Organization, FTO, sponsored a Saints Read Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 25, to honor elementary school students who participated in the literacy program for the current school year. Nearly 60 elementary students, ages kindergarten through 6th grade,...
The U.S. Forest Service reports that the Shawnee National Forest’s Snake Road in Union County is scheduled to close on March 15.
The road will be closing so that snakes and amphibians, some of which are considered threatened and endangered in Illinois and the United States, can migrate from...
Area residents who are eligible to give blood are asked to be donors during March, which is Red Cross Month.
Upcoming blood donation opportunities are scheduled in the area at the following locations and times:
Fellowship Baptist Church, 890 Senior Ave., Vienna, March 20, from noon to 6 p.m....
A history fair was held Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Cobden Junior-Senior High School in Cobden. Students from Candace Smith’s 6th grade class and Ashley Taylor’s 8th grade class participated in the history fair.
Eighteen judges reviewed 67 projects which were entered in the history fair.
The event was...
Jamie Nash-Mayberry, a teacher at Shawnee Junior-Senior High School at Wolf Lake, has been honored by the Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Nash-Mayberry received a citation for winning the Smart-Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Award on the local level and a check for winning on...
The students at Lincoln School in Anna celebrated Dr. Seuss Week Feb. 27 through March 3 with Seuss’ books and fun activities.
On Wednesday, March 2, a birthday party was hosted for Dr. Seuss at the school. Anna School District 37 principal Mark Laster read aloud Seuss’ book “Happy Birthday to You...
A Union County school district has been awarded funds from the Illinois Biodiversity Field Trip Grant Program.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources, IDNR, director Wayne Rosenthal on March 2 announced the awarding of more than $98,000 in donated funds from the grant program.
More than 8,300...
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