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A Shawnee Hills Wine Trail Festival is planned Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5-6, in Cobden.
The festival will take place at the park in downtown Cobden. Hours are from noon to 6 p.m. each day.
The festival is being sponsored by the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail.
Wine, live music, food and local...
Southern Illinois University Carbondale honored 126 employees for their service to the university during a service recognition and retirement reception and dinner at the SIUC Student Center.
The event was Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the student center ballrooms.
Chancellor Samuel Goldman hosted the...
As part of a nationwide effort to improve public lands and water, the U.S. Forest Service/Shawnee National Forest is planning two National Public Lands Day, NPLD, events.
On Saturday, Sept. 26, Southern Illinois residents will have the opportunity to join the largest annual coast-to-coast,...
A bad check restitution program established by the Union County state's attorney's office in Jonesboro will be the focus of an upcoming local event.
Local merchants and business people are invited to attend the free program scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Shawnee Community...
The Village of McClure plans to have a village-wide yard sale and a clean-up day.
The yard sale is planned for Saturday, Oct. 3.
The clean-up day is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 10.
Yard sale
Anyone who lives within the village is welcome to have their own yard sale or garage sale at their...
Friends, neighbors and cancer survivors plan to come together Thursday evening, Oct. 1, in Anna to kick off the 2010 American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Union County.
A Relay For Life celebration is scheduled at 6 p.m. at Anna Heights Baptist Church.
The 2010 Relay For Life of Union County...
Wednesday, Aug. 26, the Union County Alliance of Churches hosted the ninth annual homecooked meal for the carnival employees during the 2009 Union County Fair in Anna.
Each year this ministry has grown both spiritually and in numbers, not only those to whom the alliance of churches is ministering...
Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois plan to be selling Girl Scout Cookies Oct. 3-17.
Cookie varieties this year include Samoas, Trefoils, Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, Lemon Chalet Cremes, Culce de Leche and a new cookie: Thank U Berry Much.
Cookies will sell for $4 a box.
The Girl Scout...
A delay continues in the start of the Union County pre-kindergarten program.
The program is administered through the Jonesboro School District and serves districts throughout Union County.
Jonesboro School District 43 superintendent Gary Hill said this week that state funding for the pre-k...
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