Carterville Unit 5 teachers reach tentative pact
Carterville Unit 5 teachers reach a tentative two year contract with a 20 percent raise for all teachers. Negotiations ended about 3 am with ratification by the school board and teachers pending. Payback dates set and openings proceed with in service at 9 am and classes under way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carterville Unit 5
Zeigler-Royalton
Cartersville
Carterville
Marlene Robinson
Ernest Crain
Carterville Education Association
Garford Gooden
Robert Mees
Crain
Chicago
Jerry Robbins
Board of Education
George Connor
Connor
Benton Community Consolidated School
Benton Consolidated
Benton
William Auten
Albert Gulley
Phosphate detergents may raise Marion sewer bills
Marion engineers say discharging phosphate limits raise treatment costs. The city spends over 3000 dollars monthly on chemicals to remove phosphates from effluent. cutting phosphate detergents could lower rates. A soda ban was discussed but enforcement challenges were cited. Residents may consider reducing phosphate use as sewer rates rise about 24 percent this year.
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Marion
Crab Orchard Lake
Glenn Clarida
Clarida
Murphysboro talks continue on police fire pay deal
Murphysboro police and firefighters press on without a contract as talks stall over a proposed $60 monthly raise and an extra supervisory pay, plus a vacation pay dispute. City officials say funds aren’t available for the supervisor increase while a misunderstanding delayed vacation pay settlement. Kennedy, Graff, and Eovaldi met briefly to push progress but no breakthrough occurred.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinois
Murphysboro
Mark Kennedy
Curt Graff
Frank Eovaldi
Kennedy
Graff
Deaths ruled inquests deem Hudson suicide and Frye accident
Williamson County coroner's jury found Clifford E. Hudson age 47 of Herrin died by own action after personal crisis. In the Frye inquest the jury ruled Michael K. Frye age 21 of Johnston City died from traumatic injuries in a motorcycle accident. Witnesses included Det. Rose Donelson and others.
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A. Williamson County
Clifford E. Hudson
Herrin
Michael K. Frye
Johnston City
Williamson County
Rose Donelson
Genevieve Hudson
Robert Jennings
Hudgson
Hudson
Frye
James Francis
Judy Brandon
Bobby Bevis
Millikin coed death: Millikin staffer held on murderCharge
Decatur police arrest Armstead Green III a 32 year old Millikin University house keeping employee in the death of Mary Ann Tirpak 21 found dead under a mattress in an abandoned house basement Autopsy cites skull fracture Police chief says formal charges to be filed Millikin officials note Green was hired as a temporary worker last January then full time in February
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Decatur
Millikin University
Millikin
Richards Treat University Center
Green
Kenneth Brown
Milikin
Menard plans transfer of threatened prisoner
Warden James Greer of Menard Correctional Center said he plans to move Decatur man Glenn N. Yount 21 to a medium-security Illinois prison within a few days after interviewing him. Yount’s mother Rose M. Yount says inmates threaten to kill him over drug trafficking schemes inside the prison and has pleaded for his transfer.
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Mike Briggs
Southern Illinois
Springfield
Menard Correctional Center
Decatur
James Greer
Glenn N. Yount
Yount
Illinois
Rose M. Yount
Menard Penitentiary
Menard
Greer
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Dave DeWitte
Iline
Carbondale
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Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Oklahoma City
Millikin Coed
Huck's
Carrier Milli
Christopher
Huck
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