Union County
Illinois State Police District 22 interim commander Lt. Michael Alvey has announced activity and enforcement figures for calendar year 2016.
Troopers in District 22, which includes Union, Pulaski, Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin counties in Southern Illinois, recorded 16,624 incidents...
The Southern Illinois area experienced icy conditions when freezing rain fell on Thursday night and Friday, Jan. 12-13. The icy precipitation coated the landscape, including the area around Alto Pass in Union County.
This image along Illinois Route 127 was seen in Alto Pass.
The image was created...
Students from a Union County school have received honors at the 43rd installment of The Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition, which is on display through Feb. 5 at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mt. Vernon.
Cedarhurst is the Southern Illinois affiliate of The Scholastic Art Awards, which is a juried...
A merger agreement involving two regional financial institutions has been announced.
The Southeast Missourian and Daily American Republican newspapers reported the merger.
An article in the Sunday, Jan. 15, issue of the Southeast Missourian reported that “Southern Missouri Bancorp Inc., parent...
Good writers are supposed to avoid the use of cliches. I suppose the key words in that observation would be "good" and "supposed."
You've probably noticed that this writer uses the cliche that "a picture is worth a thousand words" fairly often. More often than ought to be done, quite honestly....
Tree branches coated in heavy ice fell close to the street in Alto Pass. The picture was taken last Saturday morning.
Freezing rain fell throughout the area on Friday. Heavy ice was more prevalent in the Alto Pass area than it was in some other parts of the Union County area.
Even a small amount of snowfall can transform the world around us into a winter wonderland. Sorry about the cliche...
Union County land experienced a bit of a visit from Old Man Winter during the past week. Based on weather forecasts, Mr. Winter's visit with us was going to be interrupted by some...
Illinois State Police District 22 has announced the results of nighttime enforcement patrols which were conducted during December in Union County.
The results were announced by the district’s interim commander, Lt. Michael Alvey.
Alvey said in a news release that the patrols allowed the state...
The Union County Board of Commissioners decided this week to continue to have regular meetings on Friday mornings.
The commissioners had been considering the possibility of moving their regular meetings to Mondays.
For a number of years, regular board meetings have been scheduled at 8:30 a.m. on...
The American Red Cross reports that it has a severe winter blood shortage and is issuing an emergency call for blood and platelet donors to make a donation appointment now and help save patient lives.
Area residents can be donors at an American Red Cross blood drive which is planned next week at a...
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