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Christmas holiday season events are planned at the Cross of Peace at Bald Knob Mountain near Alto Pass.
“Christmas at the Cross” is planned on four consecutive Saturdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
On Nov. 26, Dec. 3, Dec. 10 and Dec. 17, Christmas and gospel music are planned each...
The PAST organization of Union County announces a special exhibition of unique quilted wall hangings during the Christmas Luncheons at Heritage House in Jonesboro.
The collection is inspired by “Christmas Carols” and sets the theme for the annual PAST sponsored luncheons to benefit the Heritage...
Boots and flannel shirts were a common sight at Lick Creek School Nov. 14-15.
The students presented a program called “Thank God for our Country Life” for their annual Grandparents’ Day.
The program is a longstanding tradition which is held each year during the Thanksgiving season at the Union...
A holiday season tradition continues this year at a Union County landmark.
The PAST organization of Union County is planning to host the annual Carols at Candlelight from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, at the historic St. Anne’s Church in Anna.
The church is located along South Main Street in...
Thanksgiving Day high temperatures in the area generally are in the 40s, 50s or 60s, according to statistics recorded by the National Weather Service office in Paducah.
The normal high temperature is in the range of 52 to 55 degrees.
Climate records have been kept since December of 1937 in the...
A Union County school was part of a recent worldwide reading event.
On Thursday, Oct. 27, children and adults joined for the world’s largest shared reading experience, known as Jumpstart’s Read for the Record.
Since 2006, the 24-hour celebration has mobilized more than 17 million children and...
With a new season set to tip off, the Cobden High School boys’ basketball team has two full-time starters and a part-time starter returning from last year’s 12-16 squad.
The two full-time starters are 5-11 guard Austin Lewey and 5-10 point guard John Russell. The part-time starter is 6-3 forward...
Union County state’s attorney Tyler R. Edmonds announced Nov. 23 that Thomas Keith Gowin of Olive Branch has been sentenced in the Circuit Court of Union County to 20 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to one count of child pornography, a class x felony.
Gowin...
The Illinois State Police District 22 is investigating a single vehicle fatality crash on Creal Springs Rd. at Parker City Rd. in Johnson County that occured Tuesday, Nov. 22 at approximately 6:40 p.m.
Preliminary investigation into the crash suggests the vehicle, a 2001 Ford Explorer, ran off the...
The 2017 Illinois First Detector Workshop on invasive plants, diseases and insects is scheduled to be offered at eight sites throughout the state beginning in January.
One of the workshops is planned on Jan. 26 in Makanda. Information is available by contacting Maggie Rose at 618-687-1727.
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