The Illinois Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, IDFPR, has worked with banks to provide services for unbanked Illinoisans who are seeking to cash their stimulus checks without inc

Illinois High School Association, IHSA, executive director Craig Anderson, members of the IHSA staff, and Illinois Elementary School Association, IESA, staff members met virtually with Illinois Dep

Rural Health Inc. is funding and administering eight healthcare scholarship opportunities. 

Expansion of Cobden’s popular disc golf course is planned. 

The project is being made possible thanks to a major donation from a veterans organization in the community.

Bobby Joe Hines, 67, of Anna, died peacefully at his home on Jan. 7, 2021, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. 

Joe J. Smith, 72, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at his home. 

He was born on Aug. 18, 1948, in Anna, the son of Ellis and Virginia Hamel Smith.  

Dale Harvell, 82, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at Union County Hospital in Anna.

He was born on July 19, 1938, in Tamms, the son of Thomas and Pearl Bridges Harvell. 

Edna R. Poole, 91, died on Jan. 6, 2021, in Carbondale.

She was born on Dec. 4, 1929, the daughter of Ford and Anna Hubach Cates.