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Cairo Junior High and High School Beta Club members visited with residents at the Daystar Care Center for Halloween. The visitors included Cairo Junior High School Beta Club members Kheondray Johnson, Quayvantae Booth and Emery Tisby, and Cairo High School Beta Club member Alazeye Bellamy. Daystar...
The U.S. Forest Service/Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois has expanded its services in an effort to better serve people.
New Tip Line
To assist in forest management and law enforcement, there is a new Shawnee National Forest Tip Line.
The tip line is available 24 hours a day. People can...
The Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation, ILCHF, recently notified the Family Counseling Center Inc., FCCI, in Vienna of their intent to award a $100,000 grant for the agency’s proposed Southern Illinois Children’s Integrated Healthcare, SICIH, project.
ILCHF is a private foundation which...
The American Red Cross urges eligible donors to give the perfect gift this holiday season: a lifesaving blood or platelet donation.
Donors can help ensure patients continue to receive treatment throughout the holiday season.
Busy holiday schedules and travel plans make it more challenging for...
Shawnee Community College is planning to host a holiday reception on Dec. 7.
The reception is planned from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the K atrium on the college’s main campus near Ullin.
The holiday season event will feature shopping opportunities with a number of vendors who will be on hand,...
A day of festivities is planned for the third annual Light Up Tamms parade, which is scheduled Saturday, Dec. 10, in the Alexander County community.
At 2:30 p.m., a craft/vendor fair will begin in the Tamms Community Center, at the corner of Second and Illinois streets.
There is no entry fee for...
The Dodge Memorial Library in Olive Branch has been at the center of the community since 1984.
The library has made an upgrade that is a huge benefit to the community: fiber-optic internet, provided by Clearwave Communications.
This type of internet, the fastest in the area, is currently only...
The students at Lick Creek School presented a program called "Thank God for our County Life" for their annual Grandparents' Day event Nov. 14-15.
More details about the event can be found here.
The Hands of Faith ladies at Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church in Anna are part of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America called WELCA.
Mt. Moriah’s Hands of Faith group was established to promote the churchwide theme of “God’s Work, Our Hands.”
During the past 2015-2016 year the Hands...
Christmas holiday season events are planned at the Cross of Peace at Bald Knob Mountain near Alto Pass.
“Christmas at the Cross” is planned on four consecutive Saturdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
On Nov. 26, Dec. 3, Dec. 10 and Dec. 17, Christmas and gospel music are planned each...
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