June Queen A funeral service for Katherine “June” Queen, 91, of Washington, Ill. was held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Deiters Funeral Home and Crematory in Washington with Pastor Roberta Shultz officiating. Interment was in Hillcrest Memory Gardens in Morton. She died at 9:58 a.m. Saturday Aug. 9, 2014 in Rosewood Care Center in East Peoria. … Read More
Jean Lorenson Mass of Christian Burial for D. Jean Lorenson, 89, of Sullivan was celebrated at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday) in St. Columcille Catholic Church in Sullivan. Burial was in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. She passed away at 6 a.m. Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 in Sullivan Rehabilitation & Health Care in Sullivan. … Read More
Norma Harris Mass of Christian Burial for Norma L. Harris, 76, of Tuscola was held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Forty Martyrs Catholic Church in Tuscola with Father Delix Michel as celebrant. Burial was in Tuscola Township Cemetery in Tuscola. Hilligoss Shrader Funeral Home in Tuscola handled arrangements. She passed away suddenly at 12:47 p.m. Thursday, August 14, 2014 in Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Norma was born February 22, 1938 in Champaign, the daughter of Ivan and Emma Pankau Black. She married Joe H. Harris August 17, 1957 in Corinth, Miss., and he survives. … Read More
Services for Forest Wayne Clark, 98, of Decatur were held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Moundford Free Methodist Church. Burial was in Graceland-Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur. Brintlinger & Earl Funeral Home in Decatur handled arrangements. He died Wednesday August 13, 2014 in Decatur Memorial Hospital. … Read More
August 20, 2014 Current and former union members and their families in the area covered by the Mideastern Illinois Labor Council are invited to attend the 37th annual Labor Picnic from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday Aug. 23 at Fox Ridge State Park seven miles south of Charleston on Illinois Route 130. … Read More
August 20, 2014 Soil moisture levels in southern Illinois increased over the weekend as the region saw more than three inches of rain in some locations, according to Jennie Atkins, Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring (WARM) Program Manager at the Illinois State Water Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois. … Read More
August 20, 2014 The Shelby County Office of Tourism and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announceed that voting for the 10th annual Lake Shelbyville Digital Photography Contest is now underway. The categories for this contest include faces at places, parks & recreation, scenic, and wildlife. … Read More
August 20, 2014 C.E.F.S. Economic Opportunity Corporation, Board of Directors held their 49th annual board meeting in Effingham August 7 with more than 200 people in attendance to recall the corporations’ annual accomplishments in helping people and changing lives. … Read More
August 20, 2014 New law inspired by local community colleges A new law spearheaded by State Senator Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) to create a two-year pilot program to help transition laid-off workers back to work has recently been signed into law by the governor. “I want to extend a debt of gratitude to our local community college presidents for bringing this idea to me during a meeting at Richland Community College in Decatur. The new law will get people back to work,” Rose said. … Read More
August 20, 2014 Moultrie Independent Telephone Company recently awarded Aaron Fleming, a junior at Millikin University and a 2012 graduate of Lovington High School, a $1,500 academic scholarship funded by the Fund for Rural Education and Development, or FRED, which is a national charitable foundation located in Washington, D.C. To receive a FRED scholarship, an applicant must be a graduating high school senior or undergraduate student with at least a 3.3 GPA and be nominated by a FRED member telecommunications company. The FRED organization seeks to reward academic achievement and leadership in school and community activities in young people across … Read More