Anna council disputes sheriff version of city sheriff fight
The Anna City Council released a statement saying allegations by Union County Sheriff Larry Tripp about a September 22 off duty clash with Anna police were unfounded. It said the incident occurred off city limits, involved off duty officers, and did not involve the city of Anna.
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Anna Council
Bonnie Marx
Southern Illinois
Anna Police Department
Union County
Larry Tripp
Anna
Willis Belcher
Tripp
VFW
Rural
Illinois Police Association
Belcher
Bobby Boyd
A. C. Lewis
Mark Chamness
Dennis Ralls
Steve Hartline
Glenn Teller
Chamness
Hartline
Lewis
Robert Ferrell
City At
Torney
John Womick
Rodney Clutts
Clutts
IDCI
Springfield
Marion Idci
Marion
Fairview Heights
Terry Delaney
Nursing home workers push union drive at Styrest
UFCW organizers press for representation at Styrest Nursing Home in Carbondale after July firings and replacement by CETA workers. NLRB secret ballot set for Nov 5 for 18 LPNs and 118 service workers amid claims of understaffing, low wages, and missing benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
CETA
Carbondale
Styrest Nursing Home
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Southern Manor Nursing Home
Styrest
Ufcw International
Robert Walton
National Labor Relations Board
Walton
Lpns
Franklin County weighs courthouse upgrade options
The Franklin County Board accepted a Fischer-Stein Associates report outlining courthouse upgrade options with estimated costs from 6.7 to 7.6 million dollars. Options include remodeling current facilities, remodeling with a new courthouse on the site, purchasing and remodeling a building, or building a new courthouse on a new site with phased additions. No action is planned until a grant is secured.
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O.R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Franklin County
Fischer-Stein Associates
Carbondale
Franklin County Board
Donald Brand
Hearing for Charles E. Clay Rescheduled to Nov 30
The Illinois Human Rights Commission hearing for Charles E. Clay, a 26 year old former Vienna Correctional Center counselor, has been postponed again and will now begin at 9 30 p m on November 30 in Conference Room B at Carbondale City Hall. The proceeding is expected to run through December 1 and 2 as the commission pursues a discrimination claim against the Department of Corrections.
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Styrest
Memorial Hospital
Hogan
Evelyn Stuthers
Human Rights Commission
Charles E. Clay
Clay
Vienna Correctional Center
Illinois Human Rights Commission
Department of Corrections
Carbondale City Hall
Murphysboro City Hall Planting Marks Junior Week Tribute
Catt, president of the Murphysboro Junior Women's Club, helps plant a new tree at Murphysboro City Hall this morning. Andy Robinson of Greenridge Landing and Mayor Sydney Appleton assist as the club donates the tree in honor of the Illinois Federation of Junior Women's Clubs Junior Week observed this week.
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Murphysboro
Fagg
Catt
Murphysboro Junior Women’s Club
Andy Robinson
Greenridge Land
Ing
Sydney Appleton
Junior Mus Club
Illinois Federation of Junior Women’s Clubs
Marion schools finance own vision tests for students
The Marion Unit 2 School District will conduct its own vision and hearing screenings after state cuts. An $835 vision testing machine was approved for annual testing of first fifth and ninth graders. The district will handle hearing tests and report an enrollment of 4 189, down 49 from last year.
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Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
Marion Unit 2
A.C. Storme
Illinois Department of Public Health
Marion
Storme
Lincoln
Creal Springs
McKinley
Southern Illinois Fence Company
Mount Vernon
Terrace Fence Company
Lincoln Elementary
Polish theater scholar Nina speaks on signs and limits
Walentyna Witoszek a Polish theater scholar visits SIUC for a lecture tour. She explains how semiotics reveals Poland life under communism, where art is layered with hidden meanings and political risk. Nina directs an English language theater at Wroclaw University and has staged experimental works.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinois
Poland
Solidarity Union
Communist Party
Pope John Paul II
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Walentyna Witoszek
Wroclaw University
Walentyna
Walentina
Witoszek
Wittosheck
Wroclaw
Vrahslav
Breslau
Nina
Europe
Mad Hatter
Pravda
Alice
Dormouse
Pravda the
United States
Red
Morris Library
SIUC
Mine executive rose from Benton jeweler to coal chief
Evan M. Davis reports on Marion Bowman who, after selling his Benton jewelry business, surged through Inland Steel Coal Co. No. 2 at McLeansboro to mine superintendent in days. Bowman credits hard work and scholarship, having earned a mining technology degree at Bend Lake College and rising from maintenance foreman to superintendent amid labor and roofing bolting dangers. He plans further advancement while serving on Franklin County Board with wife Betty and two children.
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Evan M. Davis
Southern Illinoisan
Marion Bowman
Benton
Inland Steel Coal Co
McLeansboro
Bowman
John Prudent
Freeman
Inland
No. 1
Lesser
Bend Lake College
No. 2
Franklin County Board
Betty
Sherri
Steve
Horatio Alger
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Nursing Home Workers
Betty Vick
Glenn Snider
G.L. Winn
Albert Chiaventone
Terrence Hopkins
David Wright
Greg Drezdzon
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B.G
Benton Jeweler
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