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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 2001
Page
13
Obituaries list Carrie L. Yates Cecilia J. Kessel Lucas Burton Dennis Frankie Lucille Schorn Samuel O. Hayes Virginia B. Boyd Daisy O. Harris Arthur Anderson and others. Notices include ages death dates locations and service details with church cemeteries and local funeral homes. Survivors and prior spouses or family relations are noted. memorials to churches or hospitals requested.
Benton city council weighs self-funded health coverage as Blue Cross Blue Shield plan extends 30 days. Commissioner Barry Vaughn cites 33 percent rate rise totaling $60,000 plus a $45,000 increase last year, notes potential employee-funded self-insurance and possible 30-day extension with 50 full-time employees on the current plan.
Former Murphysboro mayor and 33-year educator David McDowell gets 30 more days to answer a civil lawsuit filed by Jacqueline McCann now living in Knoxville. The suit alleges a sexual relationship starting in her early teens and ongoing into adulthood, with school officials failing to report the abuse.
Pinckneyville officials plan to use about 1.9 million of unspent bond proceeds for sewer and water work including replacing the South Main Street sewer and a new southeast water main. A 400 thousand dollar DCCA grant is sought, with a 705 thousand dollar project cost. The plan also adds a lift station, a boring machine, and a portable pump, funded without new taxpayer costs.
The Franklin County Tourism Board approved the Fun Trail brochure at its December meeting. The brochure covers county points of interest including museums antiques and crafts wineries restaurants hunting preserves and bed and breakfasts with a county map. The board will send Nancy Bundy Doris Heaton and Frank Savka to the Chicagoland show January 16 20 to distribute the brochure and maps. The next meeting is January 17 at the Franklin County Jail Museum.
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