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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 2011
Page
11
The city will start testing its water Wednesday in compliance with EPA rules requiring testing every three years. A Water Department worker will drop off bottles at 60 preselected sites and customers are asked to collect samples the first morning use after water has been in pipes for at least six hours.
Franklin County sheriff says two men are in custody after a burglary at Gibby's on the Green Bend Lake Golf Course near Bend Lake. Levi Diguid 19 Christopher charged with burglary felony theft and felony criminal damage. Bond 20000. Jacob Lampley 19 Benton charged with theft over 500 and criminal damage. Bond 10000. Both held in Franklin County Jail. Stephen Ricker
Carbondale police arrested Danny R. Rappa 27 of Niantic on aggravated battery aggravated assault and resisting a peace officer after a disturbance in the 600 block of South Illinois Avenue. He was taken to Jackson County Jail in Murphysboro. a jailer said Monday he was no longer in custody.
West Frankfort four year liberal arts college begins its first curriculum classes today after six months creating a program. Tim Morthland says students will read antiquity works in original languages to sharpen reflection and interpretation skills. Eleven students are enrolled full or part time at 210 E Main with three classrooms and a computer room of nine stations. Preparations to use the West Frankfort Aquatic Center are noted on SEE MORTHLAND / PAGE 2C.
Eyes on the prize. Hybrid program Saluki Operation Bootstrap combines SIU Carbondale Small Business Development Center efforts with Camp CEO to award 40 000 dollars for student startups. Twenty SIU enrolled participants from multiple colleges compete in a five minute whiteboard final after training on Who Owns the Ice House and Kaufman Foundation curriculums.
Moore Carbondale Convention and Tourism Bureau will receive an award today at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. Debbie Moore says the award, presented by Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, honors culinary tourism work across Southern Illinois. Agriculture Day coincides with the honor. Topinka's office sought details on agricultural tourism projects as CCTB's culinary plan, researched eight years ago and implemented five years ago, is recognized.
Charles Davis 54 of Carbondale faces charges in the 2008 stabbing death of Andrea Heiken in Williamson County. A July motion to continue paused the speedy trial clock, and in a Monday pre-trial hearing Davis’s attorney stated further details.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law allowing Knight Hawk Coal Co. to operate a strip mine on the edge of Pyramid State Park near Pinckneyville in Southern Illinois. The plan, first-ever for the state, would see mined land returned to the state after coal extraction, with Pyramid already largely reclaimed land. Sponsor Dan Reitz, a Democrat from Steeleville, retired this summer.
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