Carbondale Eyes Halting Irksome Halloween Bash
Carbondale's annual Halloween party faces potential end as the city council reviews containment measures to gradually reduce and possibly eliminate the event. Aimed at safety and cost control, proposals include no formal street party, bans on glass bottles before Halloween, open-container restrictions, coordinated campus activities, and long term liquor policy limits to curb downtown draws. The Monday meeting also covers a public hearing on the Energy Efficiency Building Code for new homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Council
E. College St
South Illinois Avenue
Grand Avenue
Walnut Street
Ratter
Fry
Flower Lady of Blossom Street tends a vast garden
Theresa Churchill profiles Bella McGill of Carterville who tends a sprawling backyard garden on Blossom Street. She cultivates hundreds of flower varieties from snow crocus to chrysanthemums, mixes vegetables among blooms, and relies on hand watering to avoid sprays. Her 360 house plants fill her home and porch with cacti, African Violets, begonias, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theresa Churchill
Southern Illinoisan
Carterville
Williamson County
Bella McGill
Missouri and
Blossom Streets
Southern Illinois University
Donald
Holland
Marion's Wampum Day recalls 1939 fair souvenirs
Marion residents flocked to the Carnegie Library for a Wampum Day promotion. Delicate balsa wood pieces stamped with a 5 and Sphinx imagery could be redeemed for a nickel at local banks after the Williamson County Centennial Fair, starting September 2, 1939. Librarians Ronald Reed and Amy Black recall the long ago event and regret current market prices.
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Cathy A. Monroe
Southern Illinoisan
Marion
Marion Carnegie Library
Williamson County
Egypt
Williamson
Franklin Counties
Ronald Reed
Amy Black
Reed
Quincy
Illinois
Kamarasy suit dismissed over out of court settlement
Judge Bill Green set aside a 3000 contempt fine against Carbondale developer Egon Kamarasy and dismissed the homeowners suit in Union Hill after a 25000 contribution toward a new filtration system. The cedar lake sewerage dispute dated to 1977 involved EPA actions and a transfer of lagoon ownership to homeowners. A separate EPA suit may also be resolved.
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Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Bill Green
Carbondale
Egon Kamarasy
Union Hill Subdivision
Kamarasy
City of
Environmental Protection Agency
Union Hill
Cedar Lake
Green
Crab Orchard Creek
EPA
Roots of ethnic foods reshape Southern Illinois cuisine
Ben Gelman reflects on a Southern Ilinois section tracing regional roots from native tribes to French exploration and notes a broad ethnic-food revolution. He recalls early limits to Chinese and diverse cuisines, praises new Chinese Italian Jewish Middle East Greek Mexican and French crepe eateries in Carbondale and surrounding towns, and observes supermarket shifts toward fresh ethnic items alongside his nostalgia for Kaiser rolls.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Illnois
Southern Illinois
Kaskaskia
Jacques Marquette
Louis Jolliet
Mississippi River
Quebec
Marquette
New York City
Carbondale
Illinois
New York
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Liquor Advisory Board
Carroll Fry
SIUC
Chamber of Commerce
Scott Ratter
State
Siu-C
University
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Jerry Lower
Connecticut Kings
Blossom Street
Central
Herrin
Fairgrounds
Mrs. Black
Woolworth’s
ED Greer
Pierre
Pere
Cahokia
East Cape Girardeau
Cairo
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