Jackson board seeks jail funding vote in March
Jackson County voters will decide in March on a referendum to approve a 6.5 million plan to build and furnish a new jail with 10 year debt terms. The board, by 11-2, chose the referendum over building commission financing, while critics urged courthouse fixes instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Schottman Knoll
Jackson County
Public Building Commission
Larry Lipe
Tress Pierson
Pierson
Lipe
Robert Crim
Carl Shoaff
Matthews and
Wright
Commission
County Building Commission
Building Commission
Shoaff
Woman killed in Murphysboro as car hits train
Bertha Higgherson a 65 year old Murphysboro resident died at the scene when her northbound car on Seventh Street collided with an eastbound Missouri Pacific freight train at a crossing lacking warning devices. The car was carried 50 feet and rolled down an embankment. The train with three locomotives and 60 cars was not derailed. Funeral services are planned for Pettett Funeral Home with burial at Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Missouri-Pacific Railroad
St. Louis
Higgerson
Sheriff's Department
Assembly of God Church
American Legion Auxiliary
Herb
Nancy Miliar Dunham
Roy E. Higgerson
Carbondale
Charles H. Schott
Nancy Coleman
Ruby Baseden
Wanda Karl
Pettett Funeral Home
Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery
Frozen out area water problems persist in Southern Illinois
Subfreezing temperatures strain water services across Carbondale Marion and Cambria with a water main break at Carbondale Clinic line leaks and reduced supply. Rend Lake Conservancy efforts aim to restore a settling tank as districts urge continued conservation while Cambria maintains five hour daily service and a boil order remains in effect.
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Carbondale
Marion
Cambria
Rend Lake Conservancy District
Herrin Norge
Rend Lake
Charles Butta
Conservancy District Control Room
Butta
Cambria Water Department
Oakland
Willow
McDaniel
Carbondale Clinic
Wayne Given
Fireplace ashes blamed for fatal Marion blaze
Two Marion residents, Sherry Lyell and Keith Albright, died in a 2 51 am house fire caused by ashes from a fireplace left in a coal bucket. Lyell's children and another occupant escaped, while Deputy State Fire Marshal Al Phillips cautioned about indoor ash storage. The brick-walled home on East Main Street was rented from Hod Carriers Union Local 577.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave DeWitte
Marion
Sherry Lyell
Keith Albright
East Main St
Ms. Lyell
Mr. Albright
al Phillips
Jack Reed
Step
Hanie Rhea
Jennifer Jon
Chastity Lynn
Deborah Watkins
Hod Carriers Union Local 577
Williamson County
Cause of fatal fire in Murphysboro uncertain
Four small children were in an apartment at 21B Mount Carbon when a fire broke out after 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Two 6 month old twins Aniece and Anthony Oliver died. siblings Quinn and Tanya Gaston were treated and released. Investigators could not determine the cause, though a plastic milk crate toy box is rumored. Police suspect possible play with matches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quinn Gaston
Tanya Gaston
Memorial Hospital of
Carbondale
Barney West
Murphysboro
Curt Graff
West Frankfort Chamber backs bid for state prison
West Frankfort Chamber of Commerce approves a letter to Gov. James Thompson supporting locating a state penitentiary in the city. Gary Willis begins his 1982 term as president, unveiling new officers Steve Rhoads Art Smith Sloan Brown and Paul Gray. An annual dinner is set for Jan. 28 at the Franklin County Country Club with speaker James L. Rhoads.
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O.R. Wailey
Southern Illinoisan
West Frankfort
Willis
James Johnson
Franklin County Country Club
James L. Rhoads
St. Louis
Middle East
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Jackson Board
Matthews and Wright Wednesday
Borge and Pitt of
Chicago
Joe Jines Carlies
Southern
John Mann
Water Department
Ursula Richey
Resi
Mann
Central Illinois Public Service
CIPS
Nichol
Jennifer
Granados
John McCutchen
Lincoln School
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