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The CEO program of Union County is accepting online applications for 2020-2021 high school juniors and seniors of Union County who are interested in participating in next year’s CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) program.
The CEO program is a two-credit hour high school class that meets...
Southern Seven Health Department issued more than 77,000 WIC program food instruments during 2019. More than 6,400 WIC clinic visits were reported.
Last year, the health department also gave more than 4,000 child and adult immunizations.
The health department also tested more than 7,000 mosquitoes...
A 2020 legislative survey has been released by State Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Metropolis.
Windhorst said the survey gives constituents an opportunity to provide the 118th District state representative with their thoughts on some of the most pressing issues facing the State of Illinois.
Part of...
A Union County landmark is featured in an annual publication which is distributed nationwide.
The Snake Road, located near Wolf Lake, is highlighted in an article which appears in the 2020 edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
The article, with a headline reading “Where Glaciers Stopped...and...
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Department of Population Science and Policy, PSP, and the University of Chicago have been awarded a three-year, $5.1 million federal grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, NIH.
The grant will fund a...
The Illinois State Board of Elections, ISBE, reported that ballot order has been determined for presidential candidates who filed nominating petitions for the upcoming March primary election.
lSBE conducted a lottery on Jan. 13 to determine the ballot order for presidential candidates who filed...
Illinois State Police Division of Internal Investigation agents reported Jan. 17 that three former employees of the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna face official misconduct and other charges.
The Illinois State Police reported in a news release that they had arrived at Choate...
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, IDFPR, on Jan. 13 announced that statewide adult-use cannabis sales from Wednesday, Jan. 1, through Sunday, Jan. 12, totaled $19,709,345.10.
Dispensaries across the state rendered 495,385 transactions over the 12-day period. One of...
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School students have received recognition in art competitions and at an FBLA conference.
The honors were noted at a regular meeting of the A-JCHS District 81 Board of Education which was held Jan. 13.
A-JCHS students had art which they had created admitted into the...
Earth’s warming trend continued in 2019, making it the second-hottest year in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s, NOAA, 140-year climate record – just behind 2016.
The world’s five warmest years have all occurred since 2015 with nine of the 10 warmest years occurring since 2005...
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