Carbondale park board suspends Doug Lee Park maintenance
The Carbondale Park District voted after a closed session to suspend maintenance at Doug Lee Park until a satisfactory lease is secured with Carbondale Junior Sports and Carbondale Soccer Inc. The move affects youth programs using the fields amid Superblock developments and school projects.
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Carbondale Soccer Inc
Doug Lee
New Carbondale
Carbondale Community High
Grant
Mardi Gras Festivities Spark Herrin Parochial School Night
Herrin hosts Mardi Gras before Ash Wednesday with a spaghetti dinner 5 to 7 30 p m. Tickets 6 adults 4 children under 12 free for under 3. Advance tickets at church offices Williamson County Catholic Credit Union Thornton's Market Herrin Health Mart Carterville Family Drugs. Crowning of Mardi Gras royalty and a 100 plus prize raffle follow a 6 p m carnival upstairs and an 8 p m bingo by Knights of Columbus. John Homan.
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Thornton's Market
Herrin Health Mart
Carterville Family Drugs
Dee Wade
Knights of Columbus
Maytag
Co op proposal deadlocked over Sesser Valier boys numbers
Sesser Valier residents with more than 150 signatures oppose joining the co op with Woodlawn amid concerns over dwindling local male enrollment. Lesser Valier high school currently has 215 students 112 girls 103 boys with few freshmen 53 boys in lower grades. Woodlawn officials cite 20-25 potential participants if offered. A March 11 board meeting will revisit the measure.
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Sesser-Valier
Lesser-Valier High School
Lesser-Walier
Waltonville
Woodlawn
Dillard's founder William T. Dillard Sr. remembered as old fashioned businessman
William T. Dillard Sr., founder and chairman of Dillard's Inc., died at 87 in Little Rock. Colleagues say he valued handshake deals, and 1,000 mourners attended his memorial at Trinity United Methodist Church. Notables included Lt. Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. Dillard started the chain in 1938 in Nashville, Arkansas, building a 340-store, 30-state empire.
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William T. Dillard Sr
Dillard’s
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Calvin Clyde
Dillard’s Inc
Tyler
Texas
Trinity United
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansas
Jim Guy Tucker
University of Arkansas
Frank Broyles
John Paul Hammerschmidt
Dillard Department Stores Inc
Nashville
Ark
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