Storm cleanup continues as outages expected to end today
Utility crews push to restore power and phone service after Monday's late day storm. About 100 power customers remain without service in West Frankfort Herrin and Harrisburg while roughly 250 telephone customers in the division still lack working lines. Crews expect full restoration by day’s end.
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Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Central Illinois Public Service Company
Ed Coban
West Frankfort
Herrin
Harrisburg
Coban
John Green
General Telephone
Southern Area
Marion
Green
Carrier Mills
Benton
GTE
Carbondale
Sharon Witunski
CIPS
Eastern Division
Mattoon
Railroad Crew Replaces Wooden Bridge at De Soto Mine Site
Charles R. Harmon of Batesville Arkansas and John Hayden of Campbell Missouri are part of a Missouri Pacific crew replacing a wooden bridge with a concrete one near Consol’s Number 5 mine at De Soto.
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Missouri-Pacific
Charles R. Harmon
Batesville, Ark
John Hayden
Campbell
Consol
de Soto
Marion parent questions high school cheerleader vote
Robert Walters challenged Marion High School's cheerleading selection after his daughter Barbie was denied a spot. He alleges an opaque process, missing ballots, and conflicting criteria, and he seeks a re-vote while considering legal action and guidance from the National Center for the Educational Rights of Children.
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Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
Robert Walters
Walters
Marion Unit 2
Barbie
Marion High School
Washington
Springfield
Gosh
St. Louis
National Center For the Educational Rights of Children
Marion approves low bid for new track at high school
Marion Unit Two School District Board awarded Wilson Asphalt Co. an 89 498.59 contract to install a new track, saving about 9 000 versus the second bidder while requiring a materials payment guarantee due to the firm’s cash flow. Completion is set for August 31 with a bid from Short Brothers higher at 106 685. The district also reviewed extracurricular spending and staffing changes, including new coaching appointments and a high school English hire.
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Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
Marion
Marion Unit
Wilson Asphalt Co
Southern Illinois Asphalt Co
Short Brothers Construction
Albert Kaeser
A.C. Storme
Kaeser
Storme
Unit Two
Southern Seven
Marion Memorial buys medication monitoring machine
Marion Memorial Hospital buys a 10560 machine to monitor patient drug levels, enabling staff to track medicine concentrations in minutes rather than wait for outside lab results which can take days. The hospital also reports re accreditation by the Joint Commission for two years and a new media release consent form for patient admissions.
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Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
Marion Memorial Hospital
Nolan England
England
Joint Commission On Accreditation of
Lindbergh visit to Carterville recalled in famous 1925 flight
Local recollections recount Charles Lindbergh riding with residents during a 1925 Flying Circus event in Carterville. Guests Paul Lindbergh stayed at the Norton Hotel, with a $3.75 hotel bill noted as unpaid. Athletes and sponsors tied to the Hard Road League attended and later questioned the outcome of the May 10 baseball game.
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Lucky Lindy
Carterville
Aviation and Baseball
Hard Road Baseball Association
Atlantic Ocean
New
York
Paris
St. Louis
Edna Scott
Bob Colp
Elizabeth Bishop
C.W
Bishop
U.S
Southern Illinois
Lindbergh
Lizzie
Margaret ‘‘Mae ™ Bleyer
Albert
Alvert
Runt’ Bishop
Leo Watson
Hall Gallimore
Jack Bishop
C.W. and
Elizabeth
Norton
Richard Waldron
Waldron
Chas. A. Lindbergh
Lee
Final tax multiplier set for Franklin County next week
County Assessor David Cobill and Board of Review member James Janello attended a Springfield hearing on the Franklin County multiplier. The tentative rate is 1.3951, up from 1.2249 last year, reflecting higher sale prices and raising assessments by 13.9 percent. Tax bills will be mailed in August after the Department of Revenue confirms the final figure.
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O.R. Walley
Franklin County
Illinois Department of Revenue
David Cobill
James Janello
Board of Review
Springfield
Department
Cobill
Water outage hits Alto Pass area migrant camp
A leak in the Alto Pass water system plus Monday’s storm caused about 30 hours without water for Cobden’s migrant camp and other users. Village official Mike Coleman said the leak was reported Friday afternoon and fixed by this morning after a power failure. Before the outage some areas had water with low pressure. A boil water and conserve water order has been lifted.
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Alto Pass
Cobden
Mike Coleman
Alto Pass Village
Coleman
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Marion School Board
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Illinois Department of Public Health Commission On Licensing
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr
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