Anna City Council weighs annexing mental health center
The Anna City Council appointed a committee to study annexing the Anna Mental Health and Developmental Center into the city. Councilman Ben Edwards resigned citing family time and possible conflict as he works as an administrator at the center. The panel’s report is due in February. The council also declined to extend water service to Alto Pass, citing debt and limited revenue, under a new joint agreement with the Anna-Jonesboro Water Commission.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Anna
Ben Edwards
Ron Bittle
Bittle
Tom Campbell
Campbell
Willis Belcher
John Womick
Edwards
Alto Pass
State urges Jackson County to replace its jail
Jackson County faces a push from the Illinois Department of Corrections to replace its jail. The report cites 64 bed capacity, space shortages, and segregation limits with an average daily population around 21 to 24. Improvements include a disciplinary hearing officer and storage cleanup, while Sheriff Don White reiterates the need for more floor space and recreation.
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State
Jackson County
Ann Schottman Knol
Illinois Department of Corrections
O’kier
Grand Jury
Don White
White
Johnston City School District Faces $350000 Deficit
Johnston City Unit 1 School Board warned the district could end the year with a $350000 shortfall and discussed budget cuts from fewer supplies to dropping sports. Superintendent Koenecke outlined short and long range options including staff reductions, travel limits, consolidations, and possibly closing Lincoln Elementary. Public input was requested in writing before the January 19 meeting.
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Theresa Churchill
Southern Illinoisan
Johnston City Unit 1
William Koenecke
Ople
Pricilla Winkler
Koenecke
Lincoln Elementary
306 E. Broadway
Washington
Dorothy Hughes
Leo Grider
Route 1
Marion
Evin Shelton
Burgess
Winkler
Doris Dobbins
Bill Matthews
Prrior
Snowfall Keeps Johnson County Schools Closed
Public schools in Johnson County remained shut today due to Tuesday snowfall. Principal Jack Jones cited iced secondary roads and limited bus travel on main roads, with closings also in Cypress, Buncombe, Goreville and New Simpson Hill districts as about half an inch of snow fell.
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Johnson County
Vienna High School
Jack Jones
Vienna
Cypress
Buncombe
Goreville
New Simpson Hill
Johns
Winchester seeks local cloud seeding funding plan
State Rep Robert Winchester co sponsors a bill to let farmers create taxing districts to pay for cloud seeding, avoiding state funds. Backers include Farm Bureau and Southeastern Rain Inc SRI President George Scherrer notes near 300 members and disputes over past donations. McLean County farmers back the measure, which aims to aid drought ridden communities like Eldorado and Salem amid concerns of future dry summers.
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Robert Winchester
R-Rosidare
Eldorado
Winchester
Salem
William Harris
Marion
Illinois Agriculture Association
Farm Bureau
Southeastern Rain, Inc
SRI
Franklin
Gallatin
George Scherrer
Shawneetown
Scherrer
Kentucky
Illinois
Gordon Ropp
Ole Bessie Heads for the Promised Land novel published
Frank P Hight 85 a retired Chester school teacher and former city clerk reveals his first published novel Ole Bessie Heads for the Promised Land set in Massac and Johnson counties before World War I The book published by Cook and McDowell is available by mail and at Shawnee Regional Library and Morris Library Readers learn of Hights career and the tale of a white preacher a Black woman and her children amid Klan tensions and civil rights themes in rural Southern Illinois.
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Frank Hight
Ole Bessie
The
Promised Land
Hight
Chester
Esther Koehler
Massac County
Samoth
New Columbia
Southern Illinois Normal University
Southern Illinois
Cypress
Kaskaskia Island
Crain’s Island
YMCA
Detroit
Prairie du Rocher
Doubleday
Houghton-Mifflin
Macmillan
Cook and
McDowell Publications
Owensboro
Bessie Jordan
Abe
Angie
Haden
Georgia
Raymond Lightfoot
Lightfoot
Oklahoma
Illinois
Jordans
Angie Jordan
Qle
Bessie
Frank P. Hight
Oak St
Ill
Shawnee Regional Library
Carterville
Morris Library
Sevthern Ilinois-Carbondale
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Anna City Council
Chill
Gilbert Shadowens
Carroll C Fwamness
Creal Springs
Bureau of Detention
Oliver O’kier
Johnston City
Evan M. Davis
Southern Illioisan
Ben Gelman
Cook & McDowell
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