Marion schools race sees new anti incumbents PAC form
Two lawyers form The Committee for Fiscal Responsibility to oppose all four Marion Unit 2 School Board incumbents. The board president counters that claims of fiscal mismanagement are faulty and that the PAC agenda ignores district improvement.
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Marion
Marion Unit 2
Ron Osman
Tom Wolf
Committee For
Osman
Southern Illinoisan
Bob Butler
Wade Hudgens
Reach of a student volunteer who built a Romanian playground
Lucas Pulley, a SIUC honors program senior from Gibson City, helped construct a playground for an orphanage in Romania. He learned the children had never played freely in public parks, a moment of joy amid persecution. Pulley, active with Fuel and Eastview Church, also volunteers in Haiti, Ecuador, Mexico, and other places during breaks.
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Lucas Pulley
Romania
Pulley
Gibson City
Siuc University
Eastview Christian Church
Bloomington
Fuel
Haiti
Quito
Ecuador
Mexico
SIUC
Paul Newton
Port-Au-Prince
Large field fire near Herrin Road in Marion area
Firefighters from Williamson County Fire Protection District battled a 150 acre field fire off Herrin Road between Pumpkin Patch and Christmas Tree roads Friday. No injuries reported as units from Johnston City assisted. Five to six power poles were destroyed while embers possibly caused by a burning refuse truck started the blaze. Fire crews cleared the scene about 6:45 p.m. traffic was rerouted for two hours.
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Marion
Williamson County Fire Protection District
Herrin
Pumpkin Patch
Christmas Tree
Johnston City
WCFPD
Jeremy Norris
Champaign Road
Southern Illinois Electric Company
Norris
Herrin Road
Williamson County Sheriff’s Deputies
Makanda woman named to SIU board
Donna Manering of Makanda, a retired educator with teaching, administration, and teachers union experience, will fill one of two SIU board of trustees vacancies. She replaces Steve Wiggington after his resignation to become U.S. attorney. Governor Quinn nominated her in March and she will join the board pending Senate confirmation, with an April 14 meeting in Springfield as her first.
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Springfield
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
Donna Manering
Makanda
Steve Wiggington
U.S
Southern District of Illinois
Pat Quinn
Manering
Illinois Senate
Quinn proposes systemwide changes to workers camp system
Gov Pat Quinn's administration proposes reforms to root out fraud and curb costs at state facilities amid a federal probe into workers compensation abuses at Menard Correctional Center. The plan includes a 30 percent cut in medical payments and other safeguards across the system.
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Quinn
Menard Correctional Center
Chester
Pat Quinn
Newman
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