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Union County Hospital Auxiliary invites the community to attend a luau. The celebration is planned from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, in the fellowship room at the United Methodist Church in Anna. The church is located along West Monroe Street. Auxiliary volunteers who have reached...
Wolf Lake farmer David McMahan has directed $2,500 to Wolf Lake Community Center/Park through America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Bayer Fund. Center/park treasurer Abbie Stegle said the funds will be used to improve facilities. Photo provided.
Each year, the America’s Farmers Grow Communities program partners with local farmers to provide grants to local nonprofits. Sponsored by the Bayer Fund, the program provides farmers the opportunity to support and give back to nonprofit organizations they care about in their local communities by...
The 2019 Miss Illinois and Miss Illinois’ Outstanding Teen competitions were held Wednesday through Saturday, June 12-15, at the Marion Cultural and Civic Center. Clare Bunyan of Cobden was among the participants in the Miss Illinois competition. Clare advanced to the finals of the competition and...
Crews worked to remove a passenger car from a creek bed on Monday morning at the Trail of Tears State Forest in Union County.
Torrential rainfall and flooding led to a fatal incident last Sunday evening in Union County. A woman who had been in a passenger car was reported to have lost her life after the vehicle was swept down a creek at the state forest.  The woman was reported to have been one of two persons in the car....
Shawnee Community College has recently reopened a veterans resource room on the college’s main campus near Ullin.  The resource room was recently renovated using funds provided by a grant made available through the Illinois Lottery.  Shawnee Community College has a long history of supporting...
Students from Union County are among the recipients of scholarships awarded by Rural Health Inc., RHI. RHI, recently honored eight scholarship recipients for 2019.  RHI has clinical facilities in Union, Johnson and Massac counties.  Each year, RHI presents one graduating senior from each high...
The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced a major road closing in the area that can affect Union County residents. Illinois Rt. 3 and Illinois Rt. 146 will be closed near McClure Starting at 7 p.m. this evening, June 21 as the result of recent flooding. The roads will remain closed...
Residents of the Southern District of Illinois returned over three tons of prescription drugs for destruction on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, reported. DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day was...
A new Property Fraud Alert program is being offered by the Union County clerk’s office. Union County Clerk/Recorder Lance Meisenheimer said that Property Fraud Alert is an online subscription service offered to the public that allows them to have their name monitored within the recorder’s office in...
June 2019 marks 45 years of Family Counseling Center Inc. providing services in Southern Illinois.   From its beginnings serving in Hardin, Johnson and Pope counties in 1974, to providing services throughout the southern seven counties today, Family Counseling Center Inc. has continued its mission...

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