Delta Zeta Mini Musical Tops Greek Variety Show at SIUC
Sorority members led by Delta Zeta perform Jeepers Creepers in Shryock Auditorium as part of SIU Carbondale’s 50th anniversary Greek celebration. The Delta Zeta mini musical Golden Moods, with Big Brothers and Sigma Chi Alpha, won first prize in the Inter-Greek Council foundation scholarship event.
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Michael Cain
Southern Is University-Carbondale
Delta Zeta Sorority
SIUC
Delta Zetas
Shryock Auditorium
Delta Zeta
Big
Brothers and
Sigma Chi Alpha
Cots Ph
Inter-Greek Council
State board to study Carbondale class sizes in primary grades
Illinois State Board of Education reading specialists will assess primary class sizes at Carbondale Elementary School District to see if classes of Winkler with 25 and Springmore with 21 are too large. They will speak with parents, review reading sessions, and complete the study by April 30.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois State Board of Education
Carbondale
Springmore
Winkler
Richard Haney
State Board
Mount Vernon
Haney
George Edwards
Edwards
ISBE
Thompsonville EMT strike reaches sixth week
Ten of seventeen volunteer EMTs from the Thompsonville unit of Franklin County Ambulance Service continue a six week strike. They seek the right to name the coordinator for Thompsonville, while the corporation maintains control of certification and coordination. An emergency crew remains on standby and other units are dispatched to cover calls.
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Thompsonville
Franklin County Ambulance Service
Nick Sero
Lesser, Christopher, Zeigler
West City
Emts
Illinois Emergency Medical Service
Springfield
Williams
Marion
Charles Dunford
Zeigler
Precinct polling place moves spark vote access dispute
In Jackson County Democrat Mae Nelson accuses Republican William Shufflebarger of relocating five polling places to curb student voting. He defends moves for elderly and disabled access, while Nelson notes changes shift centers away from student populations and out of campus.
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Ann Schottman Enol
Southern Illinoisan
Jackson County Board
Election Committee
Mae Nelson
Carbondale
William Shufflebarger
Shufflebarger
Robert Harrell
Nelson
Oncampus
Newman Center
Parrish
Kay Blackwell
Murphysboro
Two husband wife teams vie for Simpson village posts
In Simpson Johnson County the April 7 election pits incumbent Mayor Bill Russell and his wife Shirley Russell against Doyle and Pattie Morse a husband wife ticket for the top village offices. The heavily read local race could lift turnout in a town of 63 residents with concerns over aging infrastructure abandoned houses unsafe sidewalks and a need for federal grants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
Simpson
Johnson County
Bill Russell
Shirley Russell
Doyle
Pattie Morse
Russell
Shawnee Hills
Cedar Creek
Dayle Morse
Vienna
Morse
Buncombe
Belknap
Murphysboro Woman In Critical Condition After Bed Fire
A Murphysboro woman identified as Amelia Burns is listed in critical condition after a fire at 450 N 8th St. The blaze was blamed on smoking in bed and was discovered by a neighbor at 2 36 a m Sunday. Damage was about 350 dollars. Burns was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale for treatment.
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Murphysboro
Amelia Burns
8Th St
Ms. Burns
Memorial Hospital of
Carbondale
Murphysboro Native Leads Freeze Embryo Bank for Endangered Animals
Dr Joseph Carl Daniel Jr head of UT Knoxville Zoology leads an exotic project to form a frozen embryo bank and transplant embryos from endangered species into common animals. The plan starts with mice and expands to larger species with interspecies transplants and university and Memphis Zoo collaboration.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinois
Murphysboro
University of Tennessee
Joseph Carl Daniel Jr
Alice Daniel
Joseph C. Daniel Sr
Daniel
University of
Norman Myers
Myers
University
The
Memphis Zoo
State wards education shortchanging says federal complaint
A federal complaint alleges Illinois shortchanges wards of the state by not providing impartial surrogate parents to oversee their special education. The Cairo School District No 1 case prompted a national review led by the National Center for Education Rights of Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois
U.S. Department of Education
Cairo
Preston Ewing Jr
National Center For the Education Rights of Children
State Board of Education
John O’donnell
Ewing
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Sorority
Melanie Bell
Jerry Kinkade
Mount Veron
Kinkade
O.R. Walley
Bailey Williams
Christopher Greater Area
Jackson
Democrat
GOP
U.S. 51
Pyramid Dorms
Rawlings Street
Carbondale Towers
Mill Street
John R. Parrish
Carbondale Township
O’donnell
Chicago
Grams
Kenneth Mines
Office For Civil Rights
U. S. Department of Education
Mines
Office of Guardianship
Lee Milner
Donald Gill
Milner
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