Today's Events at Big Muddy Film Festival
Experimental Showcase at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Auditorium SIU Carbondale with a documentary feature at 9 p.m. and a third feature later, all events at SIU Carbondale locations with free or two dollar charges. Local government and school board meetings listed for Carbondale and nearby towns.
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Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Interfaith Center
S. Illinois Ave
Free
E. Jackson St
Six Carbondale teens hurt in high speed wreck
Six Carbondale High School students, one 16 year old driver and five 15 year olds, were injured in a single vehicle crash on Chautauqua Road near Rowden Road Monday about 11 45 a m. The van overturned after sliding 600 feet into a tree and then on its roof. All wore seatbelts. The driver was ticketed for reckless driving and failure to reduce speed. Extrication took about an hour. Charges may follow the accident report.
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Carbondale
Jackson County Sheriff's Deputies
Chautauqua Road
Rowden Road
Memorial Hospital of
Jackson County Ambulance Service
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale Township
Pinckneyville veteran Hubert Parks earns French honor
Hubert Parks of Pinckneyville received a French “Thank You America Certificate” at a St Louis reception for World War II service with the Allied forces. Inducted January 1944, Parks served in the Army's 18th Traffic Regulation Group, part of a transportation unit that included railroad, trucking, and shipping veterans.
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Pinckneyville
Hubert Parks
St. Louis
Parks
Army
Marion approves three year contract with police officers
The Marion City Council approved a three year contract with the Fraternal Order of Police for the Marion Police Department, ending a period without a contract since April 2001. The agreement includes a 3 percent retroactive raise, four 10 hour shifts, cash overtime pay, and shared higher medical insurance premiums.
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Marion
Order of Police
Bob Butler
Butler
Pinckneyville rules unsafe opera house to repair or tear down
Pinckneyville officials, after owner John Alleman failed refurbishment plans, ordered repairs or demolition within 15 days under the unsafe buildings statute. The vacant building has served as an opera house and community hub, now at imminent risk amid years of vacancy. The council also discussed tax increment finance agreements and approved payments to three companies, including Perry Pointe Development for 13,533.97 and annexation steps for District 204 and near Mary Ann Sherman property to reduce septic costs. It approved funds to Laborers Local 738 for disabled children fundraiser and bought a trailer mounted trash pump and cemetery mower from Suchomski Equipment.
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Carbondale
John Alleman
Alleman
Council
Perry Pointe Development
Mary Ann Sherman
Suchomski Equipment
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Carbondale Grade School Board
Parrish School
Carbondale Grade School
Carbondale Police Pension Board
Illinois Ave
de Soto Competitive Communities Initiative Committee
Devils Kitchen Water District Board
Giant City Road
Franklin County Board
Housing Authority
E. Elm St
West Frankfort
Jackson County Land Use and Economic Development Committee
Murphysboro
Jackson County Pollution Control Facility Committee
Health Department
John A. Logan College Board of Trustees
Carterville
Johnston City City
City Hall
Jonesboro
Mount Vernon
Perry County Board
Red Bud
Unity Point School Board
Williamson County Board
Zeigler City
Zeigler-Royalton School Board
Brary
Sara Bean
Michael Dann
the Southern
Bambi
America
Rod
Linda A. Krutsinger
Missouri- Pacific Railroad
England
Scotland
Normandy
Christi Mathis
Pinckneyville Square
P.N. Hirsch
Jerry Smith
Smith
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