Finally...after all of the build up and excitement...I heard my first cicadas last Sunday evening while sitting out on the front porch.
The 2024 Cobden Peach Festival is planned Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-10.
The festival is presented each year by the Cobden Lions Club.
Kathy Lohrum Cotton of Anna received nine poetry awards at the 2024 hybrid convention of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, NFSPS, hosted in Georgia.
The Illinois Department of Public Health, IDPH, reminds the public that along with the start of summer, mosquito season is underway in the state.
The farm market Rendleman Orchards in Alto Pass is scheduled to officially open for the season on Saturday and Sunday, June 29-30.
Arcadia Publishing in Charleston, S.C., announces the publication of “Union Soldiers of Southwestern Illinois,” a new history of the area by author John J. Dunphy.
The Vienna School District was made aware of a threatening social media post Sunday morning, June 23.
Sharon Henderson Ivy, 70, of Mounds, died Saturday, June 15, 2024, at her home.
She was born on April 16, 1954, in Thebes, the daughter of Melvin and Nellie Bailey Henderson.
Gary Boyd Langston, 85, of Jefferson City, Mo., died Wednesday, June 12, 2024.
He was born on Aug. 8, 1938, in St. Louis, Mo., the son of Arthur and Bernetta Boyd Langston.
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