Martin Luther King III to Speak at New Zion Church Carbondale
Martin Luther King III will address social equality at 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 26, at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Carbondale. The event, co sponsored by the church and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, is free and open to the public. King, 48, previously attended Morehouse College and served as Fulton County commissioner, later leading the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Carbondale
Martin Luther King Jr
Coretta Scott King
New Zion Missionary Baptist Church
N. Robert Stalls Ave
Paul Simon
Public Policy Institute
King
Martin Luther King Sr
Carbondale Community High School
Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
James
Morehouse College
Fulton County
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mike Lawrence
New Cypress School Opens Four Years After Tornado
Cypress Elementary celebrates a new building replacing the 1917 old structure struck by a 2002 tornado. Superintendent Dennis Holland says the facility offers more classrooms a computer lab a larger gym and outdoor diamonds. Locker rooms double as safe rooms built to withstand tornado winds with reinforced doors and concrete walls. Kindergarten teacher Susie Henley recalls the town’s April tornado exposing student vulnerability.
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Dennis Holland
Cypress Elementary School
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Cypress School
Susie Henley
Jackson County withdraws from regional drug task force
Jackson County opts out of the Southern Illinois Enforcement Group drug task force. The Jackson County Sheriff's Department has not renewed, while Murphysboro PD pulled its 13000 dollar funding. SIEG director Rob Fierstein says no documentation yet and no rejoin in kind.
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Murphysboro
Southern Illinois Enforcement Group
Drug Task Force
SIEG
Jackson County Sheriff's Department
Murphysboro Police Department
Rob Fierstein
Jackson County
Bob Burns
Sheriff's Department
Fierstein
Pinckneyville gunsmith glad Grand American in Sparta
John Mann owner of Mann and Son Sporting Goods in Pinckneyville says he is happy the Amateur Trapshooting Association Grand American moved to Sparta. He has spent five Grand Americans as a Remington gunsmith and now can sleep in his own bed. He repairs about five to 25 Remington guns daily at his shop.
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Amateur Trapshooting Association
John Mann
Mann
Mann and Son Sporting Goods
Pinckneyville
Remington Arms
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Southern Cypress
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Iohnson County
Cypr
Johnson
Rhonda M
Ethridge
Ea al Fi
Gene Arnold
Thomas School
Historic
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Harrisburg
Shawnee Cave
Drug Enforcement Coalition
Pinckneyville Sunsmith
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