Snow days exhaust district reserves across Southern Illinois
South ern Illinois schools close again amid icy roads forcing districts to use all five snow days. Many reopen after a week, risking loss of state aid without spring vacation or extended attendance days under an Act of God provision.
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Merill Perlman
Southern Illinoisan
Southern
Illinois
Cobden
Chester
Pinckneyville
Joseph Cronin
God
Carbondale Community High School
Carbondale Elementary
du Quoin
Pinckneyville High School
Johnston City
SIU Carbondale dental van aids Golconda residents
A mobile dental hygiene clinic from SIU Carbondale visited Golconda to provide teeth cleaning, screenings, and preventive care while referring patients for actual dental work. The five student hygienists and instructors worked three days a week from a courthouse trailer, addressing mouth infections, blood pressure, and cancer symptoms, amid a 50 person waitlist.
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Siu-C
Golconda
Michael Durr
SIUC
STC Mobile Dental Health Clinic
Pope County
Durr
STC
Freeman Spur helps Herrin by lending snowplow
Freeman Spur lent its snowplow to Herrin, helping clear about 30 streets on Herrin's west side after Freeman Spur workers Ralph Murray and Mike Hall assisted. The towns cooperate due to many Freeman residents working in Herrin and children attending Herrin schools. Herrin awaits a used truck and plow from the state, delayed by a civil defense vehicle mix-up.
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Herrin
Freeman Spur
Ralph Murray
Mike Hall
Murray
Mario
Ottolini
Carbondale declares emergency snow routes citywide
Carbondale City Council declared emergency snow routes amid heavy snowfall. Mayor Neal Eckert and Street Superintendent Harold Hill welcomed the plan as crews begin first clearing on main routes including Billy Bryan, Chautauqua, Emerald Lane, West Free man, Grand, Lewis Lane, Marion, Mill, Oakland, Pleasant Hill, Sunset, West Sycamore, Tower Road, Wall Street, West Walnut, Washington, East Willow, and West Willow. Secondary routes follow after primary clears, with a Feb 6 ordinance upcoming. about 70 of the 100 miles will be prioritized.
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Robert Grupp
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Neal Eckert
Harold Hill
Emer
Billy Bryan
Laurel
Sycamore
Chautauqua
Emerald Lane
Oakland
Main
West Freeman
Grand
Illinois
Giant City Road
Lewis Lane
Walnut
Park Streets
Marion
College
Mill
Pleasant Hill Road
U.S. 51
Wall
Sunset
Violet Lane
Glenview
West Sycamore
University
Tower Road
Wall Street
Fisher
Pleasant Hill
West Walnut
Washington
East Willow
West Willow
Cedarview
Dorothella
Clinic
Poplar
Dixon
Freeman
East Freeman
Jackson
Johnson
Kent Drive
Parrish Lane
Herrin considers hiring extra full time fireman
Fire Chief Laverne Kerley says overtime costs are rising in the Herrin Fire Department and a new full time firefighter could be affordable. The council agreed to study the city’s ability to fund the position as the department grows to meet annexation and equipment demands. Currently six full time firefighters serve, with two on 24 hour shifts and recent illness reducing staff to four.
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Ley
Herrin
Kerley
Finance Committee
William Meneese
Martin Bruyns
Parents Action Concerning Education
PACE
Herrin Unit 4
Bruyn
May to Appear in Court for Official Misconduct Charge
Former West Frankfort alderman Andrew May, 65, is scheduled to appear in Williamson County Circuit Court in Marion at 1 p.m. on February 7 on a charge of official misconduct. He is accused of accepting a fee to vote for a cable TV franchise in a Williamson County grand jury indictment returned October 14 and released January 12. The alleged exchange occurred in the county.
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O.R. Walley
West Frankfort
Andrew May
Williamson County
Marion
May
Grand Jury
Andrew
Burl T
Andy
Johnston City
Bill Stevens
Southern Illinois Cable TV Co
William Lewis
Illinois
Herrin
John McVey
Herrin Water Department
Basil Russell
Herrin Street Department
Frank Moroni
SIU traffic plan guides Arena crowd after games
SIU Carbondale reminds drivers of a campus traffic plan during two Salukis home games at the SIU Arena this week. Signs direct exits to Pleasant Hill Road to Wall Street then Illinois 13, with other routes to Reservoir Road and US 51. Parking bans on Lincoln and Douglas Drives will be enforced.
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Salukis
SIUC
Carterville
Herrin
Marion
Pleasant Hill Road
Wall Street
Illinois 13
Murphysboro
Reservoir Road
McLafferty Road
Tower Road
de Soto
du Quoin
U.S. 51
Anna
US 51
Lincoln
Douglas
West Texas State
New Mexico State
Marion spends 10000 to clear 17 inch snowfall
Marion City Council discussed weather costs Monday after a 17 inch snowfall. Street Commissioner Homer Askew called it a hectic week and noted hiring extra workers to handle the cleanup, pushing expenses above ten thousand dollars.
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O. R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Marion
Homer Askew
City Scrambles Snow Cleanup After 450 Man Hours Spent
Askew reports 450 extra man hours used Tuesday through Sunday as crews with a tractor blade pay loader two backhoes and three tandem trucks worked to clear 135 miles of streets. Sanders says crews made all streets once though drifting snow left some untouched. Equipment shuttled to help evacuate ill residents and officials acknowledge possible better sequencing. The council also annexed Claude and Alice Pease property north of New Illinois 13 in the northeast city section.
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Askew
Robert Sanders
Sanders
Claude
Alice Pease
New Illinois 13
Perry volunteers survey Perry County mental health needs
Volunteers will interview Perry County residents and leaders to assess mental health needs funded by a 15 cent tax approved in November 1976. The effort, sponsored by Perry County HELP and the Perry County Workshop for the Handicapped, also aims to compile a Human Services Directory.
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Perry County
Perry County Help
Perry
Train fireman killed in Cairo collision near Illinois 3
A two car crash near Cairo fatally injured fireman Jerry Crowell 38 of O’Fallon and injured four crew members en route to work on an Illinois Central Gulf train. Crisman 53 of St. Louis was in fair condition. Jackson 27 of Thebes released after treatment. Funeral plans set for Crowell.
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Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Cairo
ICG
Illinois
Jerry Crowell
O’fallon
Southern Medical Center
Alexander County
Tom Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Albert
Crisman
St. Louis
Coy Jackson
Thebes
Southeast Hospital
Cape Girardeau
Jackson
Western Baptist Hospital
Paducah
Mr. Crowell
Robert Church
Cambria
Ernest Calvert
West Frankfort
Kenny Williams
Belleville
Calvert
Williams
St. Francis Hospital
Church
Cairo Medical Center
Wolfersberger
Lake View Memorial Gardens
National Bass Casters Association
National Bass Caster’s Association
Carbondale
Noah R
Cletus Cox Crowell
Joyce Shaw
Richard
Phoenix
Ariz
Darren
Julie
Angelia
Jack
Norma Mowery
Carbondle
Betty Johnson
Murphysboro
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SIU Photo
Patricia Mills
Princeton
SIU News Service
Ohio River
Vienna
Metropolis
Rodney J. Brenner
Alton
Brenner
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Shawnee College
Allin
Brookport
Federal
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Bureau of Health Manpower
West Herrin
Illinois Department of Transportation
Barbara Schechter
Laverne Ker
SIU
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