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Elsewhere on this page, a letter to the editor is published from a young woman from Japan who is concluding a visit which allowed her to spend the 2008-2009 academic year at Anna-Jonesboro Community High School.
The visit was arranged through the 4-H Japanese Exchange program. The goal of the...
To the editor,
Kon-nichiwa (hello). This is Natsuki Amari. I'm from Tokyo, Japan.
I have been a student at Anna-Jonesboro Community High School for the 2008-2009 school year.
I enjoyed living in Anna, and I also had fun going to other places in Southern Illinois and the United States.
I...
Six-word memoirs and accolades seem to be the “in” thing these days. The idea is to try to sum up an entire lifetime, or, perhaps, some other momentous occasion in just six words.
So, we’ll try one: Cobden High School softball. Repeat champions.
With a magnificent, 19-inning victory over Alexis...
To the editor,
We want to commend the young ladies on the Anna-Jonesboro High School softball team for exercising their right to pray before their games.
We saw the picture of their article of prayer on the SIU Edwardsville campus and we are very encouraged by the caliber of these young ladies...
To the editor,
On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, Children's Advocacy Centers across Illinois received a fax stating that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services was executing on July 1, 2009, a plan to no longer honor or renew contracts with Children's Advocacy Centers.
Difficult...
Hundreds of people from throughout the region took time of their busy schedules Saturday to help with a very worthy cause.
They took part in the 2009 Cross-Walk, an event held to raise funds for the restoration of repair of what is Union County’s most visible man-made landmark.
The landmark is...
To the editor,
With the General Assembly’s latest budget bill passed, early childhood programs are one step closer to facing severe cuts or elimination.
The proposed budget calls for the elimination of all state funded prekindergarten programs. This means that more than 100,000 children will be...
the past week no doubt was rather abrupt, and a bit of a shock to our systems.
Nevertheless, it is summer time in Southern Illinois, and we all know what that means. It’s likely we can look forward to plenty more heat and lots of high humidity, two conditions which make summer in Southern...
To the editor,
Once again we hear the wailing from Springfield for more tax money. I see that we tax payers have been threatened and our political leaders will cut law enforcement, let convicts loose on the streets, cut education funding and medical services if we don’t give in.
First of all I...
To the editor,
I just wanted to acknowledge some of your elected officials as well as volunteers of Union County. The recent storms did extensive damage in Grand Tower. There was very little news coverage of our situation with Murphysboro and Carbondale having to deal with the damage as well....
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