Carbondale to take title for hotel project this summer
City officials outlined a rapid land purchase plan for the downtown hotel and convention center project, aiming to acquire properties by summer and begin demolition the day after Labor Day. Owners pressed for access to appraisals while the city defended its timelines and relocation assurances.
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Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Carroll Fry
Paul McRoy
Walnut St
McRoy
Convention Center
Fry
Donald Monty
Stan Hoye
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Carterville schools post first month in black for cafeterias
Carterville Unit 5 district reports all five school cafeterias operated in the black in December, with a $1,300 monthly profit and $2,800 year to date. Board praises principals and cooks, approves early graduation for four students, and weighs changes to math requirements at Carterville High School. Superintendent Mees gains a three year contract extension with raise. seeks bids for a new bus. secretary pro tem appointed. target date set for policy manual. teacher evaluation program slated for completion by April.
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Bonnie Marx
The
Southern Illinoisan
Carterville Unit 5
Robert Mees
Carterville High School
Larry Woolard
Benton High adopts new field trip policy shifting overnight trip decisions
The Benton Consolidated High School District 103 board adopted a new policy effective immediately that moves overnight trip decisions from the board to the superintendent and principal. Field trips must align with classroom material and include an educational purpose, with a 10 day advance form and parental consent. Club trips follow the same rules but cannot use school time or state funds. The board approved seventeen participants for an overnight speech contest in O Fallon, denied an overnight trip for Future Homemakers of America, OK'd a $593,238 cost readjustment for a vocational building, and allowed fifth and sixth graders to use the West Gym for basketball.
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Jean Ann Bailey
Southern Illinois
Benton Consolidated High School
Board of Education
Pam Johnson
O'Fallon
Homemakers of
America
Mount Vernon
Albert Gulley
West Gymnasium
Edwards
Bartelsmeyer
Benton staff sets union vote in Benton 103
The Southern Illinois SEIU representing ten custodians and bus drivers at Benton Consolidated High School District 103 will vote Saturday on the board's first contract offer. Superintendent Albert Gulley announced the morning offer after the first formal negotiating session and said a settlement on a one year pact seems near.
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Jean Ann Bailey
Southern Illinois
Service Employees International Union
Benton Consolidated High School
Albert Gulley
Gulley
Roger Edwards
Kenneth E. Pice
Rowland Withdraws From Franklin County Board Run
Jerry Rowland Tyrone Township road commissioner pulled out of the District 1 Franklin County Board race amid party concerns. District 1 incumbent Edgar Quick said Rowland quit to avoid party disunity, noting Rowland would have had to resign his road commissioner post if elected. Remaining candidates include Glenn Snider Kenneth Cockrum and Richard Minor. The Democrats are unopposed. Republicans may caucus or run write-ins.
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Jerry Rowland
Tyrone Township
Franklin County
Edgar Quick
Rowland
Quick
Glenn Snider
Zeigler
Kenneth Cockrum
Lesser
Richard
Minor
Christopher
Tyrone
Chester Center Receives Two-Year Accreditation
The Chester Mental Health Center, operated by the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, earned a full two-year accreditation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Opened in 1976 as the state’s newest facility, Chester was first accredited in 1979 as one of the first forensic hospitals in the nation. Superintendent Dr. Terry B. Brelje noted two more facilities have since met accreditation standards.
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Chester
Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Chester Center
United States
Terry B. Brelje
New Carbondale school plan urges repairs at Lincoln
Carbondale elementary school planning panel backs repairs at Lincoln Junior High and keeping it in use for eight more years while proposing a 1988 bond referendum to expand Parrish School into a junior high. The group also seeks a maintenance schedule and reviews district-wide plans to reduce buildings and rework grade grouping.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Lincoln
Parrish School
Gordon White
Karl Bartelsmeyer
Brush
Monroe St
George
Kinkaid-Reed Creek Rates to Rise in March
The Kinkaid-Reed Creek Conservancy District will issue new water rate contracts effective March 1 with increases from five to seven cents per thousand gallons. Elkville, De Soto pay 73 cents. Willisville rises nine cents outside district. Other towns see seven cent hikes. Murphysboro, Murdale, Ava, Campbell Hill, and Oroville listed with current rates. The board also approved an across the board rise for camping and boat dock concessions with dock and camping fees specified.
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Kinkaid-Reed’s Creek
Murphysboro
Murdale
Ava
Campbell Hill
Oroville
Rend Lake water system back to normal operations
Rend Lake Conservancy District reports restoration of normal operations for its Inter-City Water System after one ice plagued settling tank began operating Thursday and the second tanks being filled. Previously communities were asked to conserve water due to ice problems affecting the four settling tanks. A winter scene in Southern Illinois features young Keith Bailey and his father in Cambria amid the cold weather and tow requests.
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Rend Lake Conservancy
Pete Zurich
Conservancy District
Southern Illinois
Keith
Kenneth Bailey
Cambria
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James Cleland
Southern Illinois Gem Co
Monty
Cleland
Joe Jines
Carterville
Mees
Benton High Board
Benton Staff
New Carbondale
Springmore
Rend Lake
John McCutchen
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