Marion couple records weather data as lifelong hobby
Mildred and Anthony Mignone, long‑time weather volunteers near Marion, Illinois, have logged daily observations since 1964. May 1981 brought record rainfall of 10.52 inches by May 10 with more to come, prompting the couple to recount decades of Shawnee Network work and calls from news, coal mines, and even attorneys seeking temperature and precipitation data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathy A. Monroe
Southern Illinois
Mildred Mignone
National Weather Service
Weather Service
Marion
Mignone
Shawnee Network
Mignones
Illinois State Water Survey
Illinois
National Weather Serv
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Creal Springs
Spillertown
Pittsburg
Williamson County
Katharine Hepburn Jones
Navy
Vicki Waller
Perry group seeks to keep Cutler road closed for industrial park
A Perry County coalition of businessmen and Southwestern Illinois Coal Corp plans to keep the Cutler-to-Trico Road closed to protect an industrial site south of Cutler. The Cutler Village Board and residents push to restore the road under a contract with the coal company, which mined the area 11 years ago. the road remains closed while a new Perry Development Council lobbies county leaders. The coalition says the land is suitable for an industrial park with rail access and river water, while Southwestern guards the site as a sterile area. The county board, led by Chairman Tom Moss, maintains the road’s closure pending a fulfilled contract and possible alternatives acceptable to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brad Betker
Southern Illinoisan
Perry County
Cutler
Cutler-to-Trico
Cutler Village Board
Cutler Area
Southwestern Illinois Coal Corp
Captain
Pinckneyville
Perry Development Council Inc
Robert Holloway
Southwestern
Sheridan Glen
Arch Minerals Inc
Glen
Pyatt Blacktop
Robert Shook
Mount Vernon
Cutter Village Board
Trico School Board
Robert Cabey
Cathy
Randolph County
Arch Minerals
Perry Development Council
Tom Moss
Moss
Cutler-area
Senate OKs coal tax credit legislation in Illinois
The Illinois Senate approved a package to grant a 20 percent income tax credit for coal research and a 5 percent credit for businesses buying equipment to use state coal. It also created a Coal Commerce Office in the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to attract coal-related industry. A companion bill establishing a Southern Illinois University Carbondale coal technology lab was approved? no. The chamber narrowly rejected a bill to form an Illinois Coal Research Board and opposed a measure to bar utilities from charging rate payers for plants under construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Briggs
Don Levener
Springfield
Illinois
State
Senate
Kenneth Buzbee
Carbondale
Buzbee
Illinois Coal Research Board
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Gene Johns
Marion
House
Special
Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
Reagan
Nine Union residents arrested on drug charges
Nine Union county residents face drug charges including three juveniles. Laurie Rawls and Steve Hente both 18 of McClure were charged with delivery of cannabis, Mark Puffer 18 of Jonesboro with delivery of cannabis, Mark Hubbs 18 of Jonesboro with delivery of a controlled substance, Michael Kaufmann 18 of McClure with cannabis delivery, and Alan Ponder 28 of McClure with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Bonds ranged from 2,500 to 4,000 with Hubbs in jail on 2,500 bond. Juveniles were given notices to appear. The arrests follow a May 18 press conference about a three‑month probe that implicated about 20 high school students in Union and Jackson counties. More arrests may follow within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurie Rawls
McClure
Steve Hente
Mark Puffer
Jonesboro
Deliv
Mark Hubbs
Michael Kaufmann
Alan Ponder
Miss Rawls
Hente
Puffer
Kaufmann
Ponder
Tripp
Hubbs
Union
Jackson
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ED Greer
Tony and
Perry Group
Ben Gelman
Michelle Ann Cox
Rin High School
Cox
She
Leslie
Jerry Lower
Pisoni
Oks
Siuc Coal Technology Laboratories and Coal Research Board
Kentucky
Ohio
SIU
Johns
Illinois Commerce Commission
The
Commerce Commission
Central Illinois
Public Service Co
Jasper County
John W. Maitland Jr
Maitland
James Gitz
D-Freeport
Gitz
Union County
Larry Tripp
Southern Illinois Enforcement Group
Richard Pariser
Local Law En
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