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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 2003
Page
1
Local: Herrin receives a 1.2 million street grant while Habitat for Humanity helps a couple rebuild after their home was destroyed. Court report notes misdemeanor cases across Jackson, Johnson, Perry, Union and Williamson counties. Page references: Local 1B, Court 2B.
Severe weather tore through southern Illinois as tornadoes and high winds damaged Jackson and Cape Girardeau counties in Missouri and Pulaski Massac and Pope counties in Illinois. Reports noted a home destroyed two mobile homes damaged and four injured near Grand Chain and Metropolis while a deputy and a woman and child were trapped by felled trees. Interstate 24 saw semis flipped and traffic backed up as hospitals remained on alert.
Jackson County neighbors led by Dr. Marsha Ryan sue Lawrence and Mary Ann Shelton to force quieting of a roadhouse formerly a day care, Doc's Tavern, located on Old Illinois 13. The suit seeks court orders, not damages, amid complaints of blaring pipes and constant phone rings from a nearby 55 mph zone with blind curves and poor lighting.
At Ryan's urging the county board and State's Attorney Wepsiec started drafting a liquor ordinance. He says noise problems with Doc's Tavern surged after the Legislative Committee tentatively approved the measure. On March 1 loud music and outdoor noise were heard within a half mile of the tavern.
Jackson County consider limits on bar noise proposed 100 feet rule before 10 p.m. and 50 feet after 10 p.m. Legislative Committee urged State's Attorney Mike Wepsiec to amend language as hearings address nuisance concerns.
The Blagojevich administration targets sizable IDOC cuts including 21 upper management terminations to plug a five billion shortfall. Spokesman Sergio Molina notes further reductions ahead as the bureaucracy is streamlined. Local union leader Buddy Maupin describes prior efforts to keep Vienna Correctional Center funded amid a shifting fiscal landscape.
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