Public hearing set in Carbondale on underage bar access
Carbondale Liquor Commission votes to bar 18 to 20 year olds from taverns starting Jan 1 while scheduling a public hearing before city council action. Illinois raises drinking age to 21 and bans 19 and 20 year olds from purchasing alcohol. debate centers on presence in bars and enforcement challenges amid police reports of underage drinking and fake IDs.
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Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Carbondale Liquor Commission
Liquor Commission
Illinois
James Thompson
Liquor Advisory Board
The
Police Department
Advisory Board and Commission
Hans Fischer
Southern Illinois
Univer
Charles Watkins
Archie Jones
Watkins
Joe Martin
American Tap
Illinois Ave
Commission
Lesser City Council finally quorums after seven tries
After seven tries the Lesser City Council reached a four vote quorum to tackle a 30 item agenda. Acting Mayor Ned Mitchell credited news media coverage for the breakthrough and discussed resignations, a sewer project payment, and various town actions including garbage contract, police merit board rules, snow removal plan, tree planting, hiring another officer, bids on cemetery equipment, a police car, a student reading program donation, and Christmas bonuses for city employees.
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Cathy Saxenmeyer
The
Southern Illinoisan
Ned Mitchell
Mitchell
William Schettler
Josephine Gibbons
Clifford Roberts
John Feira
Lawrence Winemiller
Curry’s Trash Service
Police Merit Board
Merit Board
City Council
Illinois Department of Conservation
Lesser-Walier
Commission sets meet tonight at Benton club
The 18th annual meeting of the Great er Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission is scheduled Tuesday night at the Franklin County Country Club in Benton. An informal reception is at 6 p.m. with a business session at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. Officers for 1980 will be nominated. The commission serves Jackson Perry Williamson Franklin and Jefferson counties.
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Greater Egypt
Jackson, Perry, Williamson, Franklin and
Jefferson
SIUC Community Debates Iran Protest Rules Drama
SIUC students clash with administrator over protest methods as a group rips a cardboard flag and militants an effigy of Khomeini in a brief 10 to 15 minute incident in the campus area. A separate peace rally is planned in the free forum area Friday hosted by the SIUC Veterans Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Bushh
Iran
Free Forum
Bush
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Ruhollah Khomeni
SIUC
Busch
Trever Bussey
Khomeni
Bussey
U.S
Siu-C
Jans
Injunction extended as 27 seek to block sewer cut off
Twenty seven Union Hill homeowners sue to stop Egon Kamarasy from shutting their sewer system. Judge Bill Green extends a temporary restraining order to Monday with a pretrial hearing set for Friday at 3 30 p m. The case links a three year dispute among Carbondale city officials the EPA and Kamarasy over a community lagoon polluting Cedar Lake the Carbondale drinking water source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Union Hill
Jackson County
Egon Kamarasy
Bill Green
Kamarasy
Carbondale
Environmental Protection Agency
Cedar Lake
Green
EPA
Robert Howerton
William Broom III
City of
John Womick
Memorial of Marian Koerner Blossoms in Violets
In Du Quoin Marian Koerner, who died at 42, is remembered through a living display of African violets, dollhouses, and Christmas mementos. Her mother Katherine Koerner preserves Marian’s bedroom and a glass-walled “Marian's Jewel Box” filled with plants and keepsakes as a tribute observed with quiet faith and resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evan M. Davis
Marian
Marian Koerner
du Quoin
Katherine
Mrs. Koerner
Joe Koerner
Airport drug trafficking suspicions aired at Williamson meeting
A heated Williamson County Airport Authority session discussed unsubstantiated reports of night drug traffic on landing strips. Officials noted past discussions, cited law enforcement checks yielding no solid evidence, and considered outsourcing security to the county sheriff for daytime coverage while awaiting training standards.
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Joanne Wood
Evan M. Davis
Southern
Johnston City
Williamson County
Southern Illinois
Rick Pariser
Southern Illinois Enforcement Group
Williamson
Jackson Counties
Pariser
SIEG
Illinois
Authority
Dwayne Linton
FBI
Drug Enforcement Administration Office
U.S. Department of Justice
Jeffrey Kildow
DEA
Springfield
Everett Stewart
Carbondale
Stewart
Fourman
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Edward Hogan
Lesser
Sam Dittmer
Lesser People In Action
Dittmer
James Sanders
Marion
By Jean Ness
Kamarasu
Earl S. Hendricks Jr
ED Greer
Katherine Koerner
Kobler
County Board of Commissioners
Bill Humphreys
Humphreys
Airport Authority
J. C. Mitchell
Linton
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