Incumbents win Carbondale City Council seats
Incumbent Archie Jones and Charles Watkins won new four year terms in Carbondale over SIU-C students Matthew Coulter and Paul Matalonis. Jones led with 1,939 votes to Watkins 1,935. Coulter had 883 and Matalonis 714. Coulter won five precincts on campus, while Matalonis did not win any.
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Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Archie Jones
Charles Watkins
Jones
Wattkins
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Matthew Coulter
Paul Matalonis
Watkins
Coulter
Matalonis
Siu-C
West Side
Far West Side
Anna council curbs mayor's authority
The Anna City Council moved to remove the mayor's signature authority on city checks, requiring double signing by City Clerk Pearl Baker and Treasurer Delano Mowery. The 4-0 decision aims to speed billing as the city computerizes, with Ferrell absent and later calling it a power play amid his arson indictment.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinois
Anna
Robert Ferrell
Tom Campbell
Ferrell
Campbell
Pearl Baker
Delano Mowery
Howard Holcomb
Mowery
Union County
Holcomb
Local election night figures in Jackson County Clerk's office
Early tallies drew long waits as party watchers tracked returns. From left are Sid Appleton newly elected mayor of Murphysboro Steven Katsinas who aided Matthew Coulter's bid for Carbondale City Council and Herman W. Dietz a candidate for De Soto Township trustee in the Jackson County area.
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Jackson County Clerk’s Office
Murphysboro
Sid Appleton
Steven Katsinas
Matthew Coul
Ter
Carbondale
Herman W. Dietz
de Soto Township
Johnston City Defeats School Tax Increase Vote
Johnston City Unit 1 School District voters rejected a tax increase by 4 to 1, 1 090 no to 244 yes, dashing efforts to avert program cuts amid a projected $350 000 deficit. Principal Fred Duncan said cuts and layoffs remain likely while seeking an alternative financing plan.
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Johnston City Unit 1
Fred Duncan
Duncan
Jefferson School
Royalton Approves Waterworks Bond Issue
Royalton residents voted 379 to 191 to issue 297000 in revenue bonds to buy and upgrade the Cities Water Co. system. The village seeks a 298000 Farmers Home Administration loan repaid over 40 years at 5 percent from water plant revenue.
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Royalton Oks Waterworks
Royalton
Cities Water Co
Farmers Home Administration
Charles MccDickens
Lawrence Lipe
Bush and Hurst
Cambria rejects utility tax in village vote
Cambria residents overwhelmingly rejected a non-binding advisory referendum on a village utility tax proposed to raise funds for a new fire truck. The village board had already chosen to spend $44,500 from reserves for the truck and will decide on next steps after the petition spurred a voter referendum.
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Cambria
Makanda Maintains Dry Status as Liquor Sale Banned
Makanda residents voted 123 to 76 to prohibit alcohol sales inside the village, keeping it dry after more than four decades. The village had priorly been dry since the 1930s, with the current ordinance awaiting village board action while a special proposition’s outcome is awaited.
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Makanda
Energy votes out liquor sales in village referendum
Energy residents approved eliminating the village liquor control ordinance by 201 to 133, ending a 30 plus year ban. The move preserves dry status in West Marion Township but ends the village’s controversial license rules sparked by last year’s award to the Herrin Bowl amid a petition for referendum.
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Energy
West Marion Township
Herrin Bowl
Creal Springs liquor ban rejected again in vote
Creal Springs voters upheld a ban on liquor sales with 183 voting to prohibit and 117 voting to allow. Supporters argued people would drink anyway and town sales tax benefits would accrue to Creal Springs rather than neighboring towns.
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Creal Springs
Christopher Park beer referendum votes against sale
Christopher residents voted 715 to 510 against allowing beer sales at Park No. 2 during fund raising picnics by civic groups. The advisory measure seeks council approval for one annual beer picnic per group, amid opposition from the Christopher Ministerial Alliance and prior 1980 rejection for a Jaycees permit.
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Christopher
Massie
Christopher Ministerial Alliance
Jaycees
Ministerial Alliance
Woman charged with defrauding inn and fake FedEx agent
Cynthia Ann Taylor of Cave-in- Rock Illinois is scheduled for trial July 20 in Williamson County on a defrauding an innkeeper misdemeanor after pleading innocent. The 29 year old also faces multiple charges in Kentucky Indiana and Illinois including at least five in Williamson County stemming from allegedCrimes across three states.
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Cynthia Ann Taylor
Cave-in- Rock
Ilinois
Federal Express Company
Williamson County
Miss Taylor
Red Lion Inn
Marion
Kentucky
Indiana
Illinois
Botany clues reveal a lawn weed Henbit in Illinois
The author recalls a Tally of how a field guide led to identifying Henbit, Lamium amplexicaule, a common European import now widespread in Southern Illinois lawns. He traces the botany key, notes whorled leaves, square stems, milky sap absent, and final labial flowers, highlighting practical weed recognition.
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New York City
Southern Illinois
Robert H. Muhlenbrock
John W. Voigt
Illinois
Europe
Carlyle-Bead
Shelbyville Lakes
Muhlenbrock
John A. Richardson
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
St. Louis
No contest in Logan elections in village vote
Logan village officials were elected without opposition Tuesday. Mayor Dean Hammers received 126 votes, Clerk Phillip Lampley 130, four year trustees Jim Moss 124, Loral McRoy Jr. 130, and Keith Patten 121, and two year trustee James Rice 38 with a write in vote.
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Phillip Lampley
Jim Moss
Loral McRoy Jr
Keith Patten
James Rice
Marion senior wins national merit corporate sponsored scholarship
Anne L. Scott a Marion High School senior is among 1 460 national winners of four year National Merit Scholarships funded by Standard Oil Co of Ohio. Scott also appears on the first of three winners lists and has been active in National Honor Society track yearbook and other clubs. Later this month two more lists will name about 3 150 additional recipients.
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Anne L. Scott
Marion High School
Scott
Turnage Lane
Marion
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
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