Carbondale Council Delays Human Rights Commission Decision
City council in Carbondale debated recreating a human rights commission or letting council members act as one. A joint city SIUC task force urged leadership and a formal commission. Officials will hear SIUC input by Feb. 1 and revisit the issue January 22.
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Human Rights Commission
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
City-Siuc
SIUC
Larry Dietz
Cole
Dietz
Walter Wendler
Du Quoin Board Seeks Voters For New High School
Du Quoin school board schedules a 5 p.m. meeting to approve a resolution asking voters to fund a $15 million high school. A city ballot referendum seeks a half cent sales tax to cover the district 25 percent share. Officials push intergovernmental agreement details amid uncertain attorney general guidance and the March 19 ballot deadline.
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DU Quoin
Gary Kelly
Jerry Smith
Aaron Atkins
Kelly
Attorney General’s Office
Murphysboro Huck’s store robbed by armed suspect
Murphysboro police search for a black male suspect in an early morning robbery at Huck’s Convenience Store on East Walnut Street. The man, about 5 feet 8, 20s, wore a navy blue hooded sweatshirt and demanded cash, no injuries reported.
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Murphysboro
Huck’s
E. Walnut St
Flowers Returns to SIU Carbondale as Tenure-Track Faculty
Eden Thorne, park board president, announced that Flowers is back on the board and has taken a tenure-track faculty position at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The Rev. Norman S. Greer was the other candidate for the seat, from New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Carbondale. Thorne said Flowers' prior board experience and ongoing involvement allowed him to continue where he left off, and Greer may join citizen advisory committees.
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Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Eden Thorne
Park Board
Norman S. Greer
New Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Thorne
Park District
Flowers
Greer
District
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