State boosts Jackson tax multiplier to raise county assessments
The Illinois Department of Revenue sets a 1.6902 multiplier for 1980 tax bills in Jackson County, raising non farmland assessments by about 12.7 percent to reach an average 33.3 percent of market value. Townships differ: Somerset 19.15 percent, De Soto 38.54 percent with tax implications. some towns overtaxed, others undertaxed. Johnson County sees a 1.2554 multiplier raising Goreville and Tunnel Hill assessments to 37.60 and 27.57 percent respectively, with Goreville bills about 13 percent high and Tunnel Hill bills about 17 percent low.
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Ron Poppenhagen
Jackson County
Illinois
Illinois Department of Revenue
Somerset Township
Murphysboro
de Soto
de Soto Township
State Revenue Department
Carbondale Township
Elk Township
Makanda
Denny Elmore
County Supervisor of Assessments Office
Elmore
Johnson County
Goreville
Tunnel Hill
Goreville Township
Sheriff on Trial Over Food and Gas Theft Claims
Jackson County Sheriff Don White faces one theft over $150 count and three official misconduct charges as jurors hear from deputies and jail staff claiming he took gasoline and prepared or frozen food from the jail kitchen and tampered with jail records. Witnesses say the sheriff often used a county gas pump and, when off duty, a personal car for official duties, with some noting that he was on call 24 hours a day.
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Ann Schottman Knol
H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinoisan
Jackson County Sheriff's Department
Don White
White
Grace
Woodrow Procunier
Procunier
John Hoffman
Murphysboro
Dennis Cassidy
Sheriff’s Department
Cassidy
Kenney Akins
Irma Reiman
Elsie Pierson
Meningitis not sole cause of day care closings
Carbondale officials closed the Emma C. Hayes Center a week ago after 30 to 40 health violations were found during a Jackson County Health Department inspection. The center reopened after cleaning, with minor violations still needing attention in the kitchen and food service area, and a plan for regular cleaning and maintenance was announced.
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Tom Woolf
Carbondale
Jackson County Health Department
Carroll Fry
Emma C. Hayes
James Bloom
Health Department
Bloom
George Browning
Fry
Scott Ratter
Robert Stalls
Memorial Hospital
Stalls
Conjugal visits opened for federal inmates spouses
The Justice Department issued federal standards allowing extended inmate visiting periods that may include sexual relations with spouses. Deputy AG Renfrew supports conjugal visits to reduce violence and tensions, with pilots possible at Butner NC before expansion to 43 federal prisons.
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Washington
Benjamin R. Civiletti
Charles B. Renfrew
Renfrew
Federal Correctional Institution
Butner
N.C
Marion Federal Prison
Weather outlook turns warmer then cooler this week
The National Weather Service forecasts fair and warmer conditions tonight with lows in the upper 30s to low 40s. Thursday brings warm temperatures in the 50s under variably cloudy skies, then a sharp drop later in the day. The Illinois forecast shows a chance of rain or snow Saturday or Sunday with highs in the 40s to low 50s and overnight lows mainly in the upper 20s to mid-30s.
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National Weather Service
Illinois
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