Union County
With as many as 200,000 additional people expected to be in Southern Illinois during the solar eclipse weekend, emergency management agencies and local authorities throughout the area have been meeting to insure plans are in place to address any problems that may arise.
Union County Hospital in...
Union County emergency services agencies this week are releasing eclipse safety announcements.
The announcements come as local officials prepare for an Aug. 21 total solar eclipse.
The eclipse is expected to bring thousands of visitors to Southern Illinois, where the period of totality for the...
Union County State’s Attorney Tyler R. Edmonds reported Aug. 4 that James L. Smith, 31, of Jonesboro, has been sentenced to three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Smith was sentenced after admitting to a petition for revocation of conditional discharge for an original offense of...
Members of the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School Marching Wildcats band’s color guard were practicing last week during a band camp at the Union County school.
The camp ran last week and was slated to continue this week.
A Southern Illinois Hummingbird Festival is planned Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Trail of Tears State Forest in Union County. The event is planned from 9 a.m. to noon.
The large pavilion and white barn along the Trail of Tears Road (northwest of Jonesboro) have been reserved for the event.
Organizers...
An annual celebration of the local peach harvest is coming up in Union County.
The 2017 Cobden Peach Festival is planned Friday and Saturday, Aug. 4-5.
Most of the Peach Festival events take place at the Cobden Community Park in Cobden.
The Peach Festival is presented by the Cobden Lions Club, with...
The Southern Seven Health Department reports that on July 17, a mosquito sample from Union County returned a positive test result for the West Nile virus.
The health department reported in a July 26 news release that a positive test result means that one of the mosquitoes tested from the sample was...
A Southern Illinois Hummingbird Festival is planned Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Trail of Tears State Forest in Union County. The event is planned from 9 a.m. to noon.
The large pavilion and white barn along the Trail of Tears Road (northwest of Jonesboro) have been reserved for the event.
Organizers...
The Guardians, a drum and bugle corps from Houston, Texas, stopped in Anna Tuesday and Wednesday, July 25-26.
The corps practiced at Anna-Jonesboro Community High School.
Sessions were held on the parking lot and on the football practice field at the Union County school.
The 150-member band was...
The Union County Museum in Cobden plans to have extended hours during the Cobden Peach Festival.
The museum is scheduled to be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 4-5 – those are dates of the Peach Festival.
The museum is located along South Appleknocker Street in downtown...
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