Strawberry pickers head for the fields
Southern Illinois fruit growers report a long slow season for strawberries due to cool weather. Eckert Orchards in Carbondale opened fields to pickers, with 40 cents a pound, while others plan openings by Friday. Warm weather now may boost late-season yields but insect pollination suffered earlier. Apple and peach crops look light. bees did not fly during cool pollination.
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Ann Schottman
Eckert Orchards
Carbondale
Eckert’s
Neal Eckert
Eckert
Don White
Murphysboro
White
Rosie Stadelbacher
Blueberry Hill Farm
Union County
Murphysboro green lights outdoor farmers market opening
Murphysboro City Council reaffirmed support for an outdoor farmers market to open in early June and run Tuesdays through October in a south post office parking lot. Vendors must be area residents selling locally grown produce, with stalls at 25 cents per meter for 24 spaces.
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Murphysboro
Debra Smith
Farmers Market of
Carbondale
Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Mike Bowers
Bowers
Second bid opening set for street materials June 5
Marion City Council set 10 a.m. June 5 for opening new bids on street maintenance materials after rejecting Monday bids. Illini Asphalt Co. of Bentog bid $118,983 and Wilson Asphalt & Marion bid $118,340, above engineer's estimate of $114,721. The council also vacated an unused public road in Westernaire industrial development to allow Lowe's materials building construction.
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Daniels and Associates
Denver
Colo
Cable Television
Southern Illinois
Walnut Street
10Th
11Th Streets
Willard Hart
Marion
Illini Asphalt Co
Bentog
Wilson Asphalt
Westernaire
New Illinois 13
Lowe's Building
De Soto Man Named Anna Postmaster
Larry J. Lankheit of De Soto has been appointed postmaster at Anna. He began his postal career in Cape Girardeau Missouri, later served as a foreman at Carbondale Post Office, and will oversee 18 employees with a 21073 annual salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry J. Lankheit of
de Soto
Anna
Lankheit
Cape Girardeau, Mo
The
Carbondale
Marion site eyed for $30 million golf condo complex
Evansville developer Richard J. Heath said Marion is a definite site under consideration for a $30 million project that would include an 18‑hole golf course, clubhouse, tennis courts, swimming pool, lodge, condominiums, and home lots. He plans to decide next week after evaluating three other sites, with possible work in Williamson and Jackson counties.
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O.R. Walley
The
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Westernaire
Marion
Heath
Lawrence J. Wohlwend
Westernaire Estates
SIUC
Siu-C
University
Health
University Christian Ministries of Carbondale
Failed Fossey misses hearing and bond revoked
Weldon Fossey an Southern Illinois artist failed to appear in Williamson County Circuit Court Marion leading to revocation of his $5,000 cash bond. The hearing aimed to decide extradition to Michigan for a life sentence on attempted safe burglary. Fossey, 34, was jailed in Dunklin County after arrest with Patrick Cullen for burglary and theft at Otasco Store Malden and Rice's Hardware Campbell. Bond barred leaving state. Fossey had posted bond after earlier Marion federal prison release. Judge Howell noted extradition may move to Missouri where Fossey is held.
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Weldon Fossey
Williamson County
Marion
Snyder Howell
Fossey
Michigan
Belleville
Dunklin
Malden
Marion Federal Penitentiary
Howell
Missouri
Rehearing sought as group targets CIPS request
The Southern Counties Action Movement SCAM asks ICC to dismiss CIPS rehearing petition filed May 12 seeking to restore items cut from the rate base and expenses disallowed by the ICC The group argues no new information is presented and accuses CIPS of seeking extra revenue after a smaller rate increase.
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ICC
CIPS
Southern Counties Action Movement
Commission
Newton
Illinois
SCAM
Charles Kocoras
Southern Illinois University
Ring found after 50th anniversary and golf ace
Mary Elizabeth Akins Mars had given Theron Mars Sr. a 50th anniversary ring inscribed June 14 1927 to 1977. The ring was lost, later found by Millicent May McElheny in Carbondale. Theron then scored a hole in one at Indian Rock Golf Course, a week after the ring discovery. The Marses live in Belleair Bluffs Florida and Theron is a former bank VP.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan OK
Mary Elizabeth Akins Mars
John Theron Mars Sr
MEA
JTM
Mars
Carbondale
Skyline Drive
Carbondale National Bank
Belleair Bluffs
Fila
Millicent May McElheny
Brian
Memorial Hospital
St. Louis
Kathryn Simonds
Marses
Florida
Mary Elizabeth
Theron
Indian Rock
St. Petersburg
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Merrill Perlman
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Illinois Commerce Commission
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Byline
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CCHS
Carbondale Ramada Inn
Willie Armstrong
John Armstrong
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Cherry) Haege
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Elizabeth Arnold
Beulah Elam
June Harris Humphrey
Norman Lovellette
Lillian Lambert
Harry Smith
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Clarence Stevenson
James van Buskirk
Hazel Williams
Cobden High School
Anna Elks Club
Union Country Country Club
Jefferson Street
Hope Lingle
Leon Morris
Fred Denker
David Kim
Bong Hi Kim
University of South Carolina At Columbia
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