Harvesting fan Mya Grim at Fall Festival in Pinckneyville
A local report from Pinckneyville covers Mya Grim admiring toys at the American Thresherman Association Fall Festival. Additional items note: Thomas Odle appeals to Prisoner Review Board for life, Herrin receives a $43,000 FEMA grant for fire department, West Frankfort considers a water rate hike, and a high court tosses a DUI conviction tied to a roadblock. Also weather notes for today through Sunday.
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Mya
American Thresherman Association
Pinckneyville
Herrin
Fire Department
FEMA
Forest Service sued over Shawnee report access
Heartwood, a Bloomington Indiana group, filed a federal suit in Washington seeking release of December 2000 academic health reports on Shawnee and Hoosier national forests. The suit claims the Forest Service illegally withholds the studies and demands the documents within 30 days.
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Forest Service
Carbondale
Hoosier National Forests
Agency
U.S. District Court
Washington
Illinois
Indiana
Heartwood
Bloomington
Ind
Matt Kenna
Haunted hayride spooks Southern Illinois kids in Carterville
Members of the Southern Illinois Big Brothers Big Sisters program took a haunted hayride through Hurricane Creek woods in Carterville Friday night. Children, including 10 year old Kenyada Jordan, reacted with fear as actors in masks and chainsaws performed.
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Menace
Kenyada Jordan
Hurricane Creek
Carterville
Southern Illinois
Big Brothers
West author Brady Udall speaks at Laura Bush event in D C
Brady Udall, Arizona native and SIU Carbondale assistant professor of creative writing, traveled to Washington D C in September to join Laura Bush’s Salute to American Authors Series. He discussed the Western myth, his Arizona upbringing, and how local literature shapes identity. His debut novel The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint centers on a half Apache orphan who survives a head injury.
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Carbondale
Brady Udall
Arizona
Udall
Southern Illinois University
Washington, D.C
First Lady
Laura Bush
West
John Wayne
Utah
Edgar Mint
Mark Twain
Volunteers start blitz build of 13th Habitat home
About 40 volunteers from Catholic Fraternal Life began a three day blitz build for Jackson Union County Habitat for Humanity at 1147 E Rendleman St Carbondale behind University Mall. The dedication at noon Sunday includes a $5 000 donation and will name Queeny Clark and family as new homeowners. homes are sold at cost with no interest after required sweat equity and monthly payments.
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Carbondale
Belleville
Jackson Union County
Habitat For Humanity
University Mall
E. Rendleman St
Jackson-Union County
John R. Annable
Queeny Clark
Annable
Clark
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Springfield
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West Frankfort
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Florida
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Thesouthern.com
the Southern Illinoisan
Metro Armstrong
Caleb.hale
Thesouthern
13Th Habitat
Osamu Tsukimor
Law Any Ourimalenbergi
Roger Hoffmann
Habitat House
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