Daily headlines

March 2005

Thursday, March 31:

• Warmer temps trigger wild weather

• City reopens brownfields remediation opportunity

• Highway construction season initiates new measures to protect workers

• Lincoln alderman candidate introductions

  • Larry Harl, Ward 2, four-year term

  • Kathy Horn, Ward 2, four-year term

  • Wanda Lee Rohlfs, Ward 4, Republican candidate

• Invention Mysteries: Check out these bizarre inventions

• Mushrooms springing up in Illinois
  No license required to collect morels

• Thanksgiving basketball tournament sponsor sought

• LC baseball vs. Webster College

• LC softball vs. Parkland

• Illinois State soccer hosts developmental clinic on Sunday

Wednesday, March 30:

• Possible severe weather in forecast

• Children's Health Fair promotes play and learning

• Fair connects adults with health information and local services
  Offers free and low-cost tests

• 2005 Illinois State Fair searching for talent to entertain fairgoers

• State promotes prescription savings program

• Letter: Mayoral candidate misses forum
  Candidates given equal opportunity to participate

• Oasis update

• Book Look: Gus and Grandpa with Epossumondas

• Illinois Final Four notes

• Final Four events slated for Champaign-Urbana

• Illinois is Round 4 winner in Pontiac competition

Tuesday, March 29:

• Spring weather not all pleasant sunshine
  Storm awareness begins

• Statewide program will use outreach and advocacy to educate the elderly about risks of financial exploitation
  State police elder abuse squad

• Hinsdale incinerator shutting down
  Governor calls on remaining four hospitals to cease incineration operations

• Letter: Questions raised about ethanol plant

• Research aimed at licking food poisoning

• Production tips for vegetable gardens

• Round 4: Pontiac Game Changing Performance nominee

Monday, March 28:

• Final Four bound
  Comeback is one for the ages as Illini 'March to the Arch!'
  By Greg Taylor

• Lincoln Christian College and Seminary energy conservation measures save on operation costs

• Spring planting prime time for spotting ancient artifacts
  Department of Natural Resources offers guidelines

• Parole compliance check operations ensure parolees in Illinois are accountable

• Voluntary tax compliance yields $135 million from tax evaders

• Federal law does not allow for closure of Guard bases

• Weekly update
  Military household pressures relieved; lost and found; free credit checks

• Nuisance controls
  By John Fulton

• Salvation Army dedication scheduled

• Pulitzer Prize poet appearance postponed

• Landfill hours

• Illini Mutterings: Angels in the arena?
  By Jeff Mayfield

• Lynx place fifth in nation

  • LC vs. Rhode Island Community College

  • LC vs. Gogebic Community College

Friday, March 25:

• Illinois runs to the Elite Eight
  Brown and Williams lead the way
  By Greg Taylor

• The Midwest's most potentially dangerous weather season is here
  Where to turn for weather and safety information

• 2004 Illinois county crime trend profiles released

• Letter: Ethanol plant inconsistencies?

• Celebrating Ag Week
  Beason families join Centennial Farm list

• Marriages and dissolutions

• Court news

• Lincoln Christian College slashes costs of education by 30%

• 'Ideas for Raising Successful Children'
  Mom struggles with monitoring homework

• Roots count when buying plants

• Mutterings: Illini cast Pearl to the swine
  Illinois thumps Wisconsin-Milwaukee 77-63
  By Jeff Mayfield

• LC vs. top-ranked Brown Mackie

Thursday, March 24:

• County shows support for commerce park development
• Ag audience gets ethanol plant update
• Governor applauds addition of ethanol futures to Chicago Board of Trade
  AgriFIRST grants to promote ethanol and biodiesel
• Gov. Blagojevich urges Judge Murphy to allow Baby Tamia to return to Illinois
• Poison Prevention Week
• School music festival awards
• ZLS February Student of the Month
• Invention Mysteries: Millions of Americans are grateful for Ruth's invention
• West Lincoln-Broadwell School pancake and sausage breakfast
• Parks host sunrise services

Wednesday, March 23:

• City sweetens development offer
  Industry-specific enticements added to incentive package

• City briefs

• Lincoln and Middletown among 176 Illinois communities to receive Tree City USA designation

• IDOT gives holiday travelers a break, suspends road projects for Easter weekend

• Agriculture: It's more than cows and plows

• Lincoln College organizes Greek Mythology Club

• Jessie Baugher benefit

• LCCS 5K run/walk

• Oasis update

• Good Shepherd Lutheran Church holds Holy Week services

• Soccer clinic

• Basketball Times honors Bogut, Weber

Tuesday, March 22:

• Get the facts on public safety tax before you go to the polls

• Logan County farmer on list as Illinois' finest
  Prairie Farmer names 2005 Master Farmers

• Richard Martin: Farming on more than a wing and a prayer

• 4-H Legislative Connection

• Spring tour of homes
• Zion Holy Week services
• DNR news bits
  Art exhibits, turkey shoots, free fishing, teacher field trip grants and much more

• Mutterings: Railers' magic carpet ride times out; Illini 'bigs' come up huge
  By Jeff Mayfield

  • Mutterings' sports pictures

• Illinois moves into the Sweet 16
  Illini roll Nevada thanks to Augie and Ingram
  By Greg Taylor

• Illinois NCAA regional notes

• LC softball vs. Kankakee

• LC baseball team concludes spring trip

Monday, March 21:

• Water authority formation question on April 5 ballot
  Public meetings

• National Flood Safety Awareness Week

• Governor launches nation's first state-sponsored, multiagency attack on trafficking of human sex and labor

• Can an ethanol plant be a good neighbor?

• Senate week in review: March 14-18

• Drama team competes at state

• Class 8A state tournament volleyball

Friday, March 18:

• Potential uses for Lincoln Estates culled from crowd

• Logan County citizens continue opposition to ethanol plant location

• Coal processing discovery has environmental benefits for nation, economic benefits to the state

• Ask any fourth-grader

• Landmark video game legislation passes House, heads for Senate

• Senate Executive Committee supports Illinois military bases

• Division of Insurance refuses to release information; Brady to appeal

• Illinois starts NCAA run
  Illini struggle but put away Knights
  By Greg Taylor

Thursday, March 17:

• Deputies under new contract

• Community invited to Lincoln Estates development brainstorming session tonight

• Citizens against the ethanol plant location to meet

• Illinois exhibitors at ag trade show in Mexico

• Invention Mysteries: Chewing gum inventor's boss was a historical figure

• Hey, guys, they're not girlie-man portions, they're healthy portions

• Amazing Railers punch ticket to state!
  By Jeff Mayfield

• LC softball team concludes Florida trip

Wednesday, March 16:

• Wal-Mart engages city with new building plans

• Main Street Lincoln announces new program manager

• EPA funding to help 45 community groups clean banks of Illinois streams and lakes

• Ask any fourth-grader
  Agriculture: reasons to celebrate

  • Pictures from Ag Day 2005

• New Holland-Middletown honor rolls

• Oasis update

• Railers head for Peoria

• Class 8A volleyball state tournament

• LC softball vs. Blackhawk

• LC baseball splits doubleheader with Jefferson State

• Illinois basketball notes: NCAA 1st-2nd round

Tuesday, March 15:

• LCHS student efforts provide police dog with protective vest

• Multistate collaboration to halt guns used in Illinois crimes

• Illinois study shows two of every five were crime victims in 2002

• Farmers' Almanac humor to be featured at ag breakfast

• Logan County fourth-graders celebrate Ag Day

• Mount Pulaski and Elkhart advance to quarterfinals in 7A volleyball

• Carroll Catholic advances to state in 8A volleyball

Monday, March 14:

• Illinois wins Big Ten tourney
  By Greg Taylor

  • Pictures from the game

• New statewide partnership in expanded I-SaveRx outreach campaign

• 44th District update

• Governor signs firefighters' benefits bill

• Spring grass seeding
  By John Fulton
• LCHS casts advance to state

• Lincoln Junior Woman's Club spring craft sale

• Genealogical and historical society to meet

• Mutterings: Illini, Railers lock down titles
  By Jeff Mayfield

• Illinois gets desired path to St. Louis
  By Greg Taylor

• Fighting Illini heading to Indy to start the Big Dance
  NCAA tickets and hotel rooms available

• Illinois' Weber is 2005 Henry Iba Award winner

• LCHS ticket sales

• LC baseball and softball

• Former LC player is finalist for comeback award

Saturday, March 12:

• GIS progressing
  New aerial digital photograph maps completed
  Economic development ball rolling

• Applications now being accepted for Governor's Pollution Prevention Awards

• Surplus property sale

• Marriages and dissolutions

• Court news

• House advances bill to help disabled farmers

• Illinois state parks welcome you

• Ethanol production: good for the community and the farmers?

• CJ&D applauds new study finding no medical malpractice litigation 'crisis'

• Railers beat Normal 34-28: pictures and scores from game

• Illinois defends No. 1 in win
  By Greg Taylor

• What I've learned...
  Big Ten Mutterings
  By Jeff Mayfield

Friday, March 11:

• Board opens floor
  Concerned citizens address location of proposed ethanol plant

• Gov. Blagojevich encourages Minnesota to join I-SaveRx program

• Letter: Jane Poertner is missed

• IESA strategic planning OK'd

• Daniel Logan Memorial Scholarship available

• Helping children develop memory skills

• Coffeehouse at Dickson Mounds features Lil Rev

• Big Ten Tournament 2005
  Day one report
  By Greg Taylor

• Brown and Head earn USBWA All-America honors

• LC splits doubleheader with Lindenwood

Thursday, March 10:

• Elkhart bridge named to list of 'Ten Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois'

• Unclaimed assets owners sought

• New proposed legislation provides income tax option for unemployed taxpayers

• Antique car club to host summer nights out on downtown Lincoln square

• Soybean rust alarms sounding
  Understanding terminology remains key for using soybean rust forecasts

• Agriculture Department outlines pesticide application regulations as farmers prepare for soybean rust

• Invention Mysteries: Celebrate March with this short invention quiz

• Class 8A Hartsburg Regional volleyball results
  Carroll Catholic outlasts West Lincoln for regional title
  By Rick Hobler

• Two unbeaten teams top Class 7AA volleyball tournament field

• Class 7AA volleyball pairings

• Summer basketball tryouts

• Two from LC women's basketball program among conference honorees

Wednesday, March 9:

• City briefs

• Experts strategize to reduce highway fatalities

• Illinois teen births hit record low in 2003
  Numbers down for ninth consecutive year

• Illinois Biodiversity Field Trip Grant program awards funds to 44 schools
  New applications open

• Oasis update

• Reconstruction of Lincoln's New Salem, biographies by Edgar Lee Masters, street fairs in Mattoon are featured

• 8th-grade regional volleyball action
  West Lincoln-Broadwell upsets top-seeded Hartem
  Carroll Catholic topples Chester-East

• Class 7A state volleyball tournament begins Saturday with Mount Pulaski and Elkhart teams in first round

• Class 7A volleyball pairings

• Wrestling: local elementary school sectional results

• Illinois' Dee Brown named Big Ten Player of the Year by coaches and media

• Illinois men's basketball Big Ten tournament notes

Tuesday, March 8:

• Residents say, 'Not in our backyard'

• Unemployed Myers workers receive fund-raiser checks

• Washington-Monroe School traffic issues addressed

• Governor signs bills affecting strikers and tourism

• Scholastic Bowl team wins regional

• Blood drive in Emden

• Mount Pulaski Fire Department breakfast

• Lynx advance to national tournament

• Lincoln College baseball preview

• John R. Wooden Award announces 2005 national ballot

Monday, March 7:

• National Weather Service severe hazardous weather predictions result in measurable impact saving lives
• Illinois Geological Survey discovery leads to new industry breakthrough
• Court news
• Senate week in review
  Feb. 28-March 4
• Local school celebrates National Lutheran Schools Week

• Mutterings: Railers shock Mount Zion
  Illini loss not the end of the world
  By Jeff Mayfield

• Illini fall short of regular-season perfection
  By Greg Taylor

• Big Ten tournament schedule

• Railer sectional ticket purchases

• LC swimmer brings home national title
  Men finish second, women take third

• LC all-conference honorees

• LC opens softball season

• Scoring droughts sink 'Birds in Valley quarterfinal

• Plank named Prairie Farms Student-Athlete of the Year

Saturday, March 5:

• 7th wettest, 15th warmest climatological winter on record

• Continuing in the series for Illinois Severe Weather Preparedness Week:

• A violent tornado 'success' story

• Brady announces exploratory committee for governor, proposes new ethics legislation for no-bid contracts

• Marriages and dissolutions

• Meritorious Service Medal awarded to Lincolnite

• Citizens organize meeting opposing proposed ethanol plant location

• Managing conflict can be a key part of retirement planning

• Salvation Army opens Tuesday Bible studies

• Letter of faith in God as healer

• Railers won the regional title: pictures and scores

• More captioned pictures from Illini victory

• Former Illinois State defensive tackle in AFL action this Sunday on NBC

Friday, March 4:

• Striking Myers workers' labor assists local charities

• School board candidates to square off

• State to focus on comprehensive highway plan that reduces loss of life

• Legislation prohibits no-bid contracts to contributors

• Bomke sparks up debate on flavored tobacco

• Office hours for Rep. Bill Mitchell

• Area blood drives need support

• Setting TV limits for your family

• Perfect home finale for perfect Illini
  By Greg Taylor

• I don't like senior nights
  The Illini giveth, the Illini taketh away, 84-50 over Purdue
  By Jeff Mayfield

Thursday, March 3:

• City briefs

• Brainstorm session planned for uses of former LDC, now Lincoln Estates

• Illinois Severe Weather Preparedness Week

  • Tornadoes

• Fairgrounds opened to Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum visitors

• Invention Mysteries: Some inventors don't need a last name

• Railers prevail against Decatur MacArthur: pictures from game

• Illinois State's State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament notes

• Plank academic all-American, Valley Scholar-Athlete

Wednesday, March 2:

• Community to gather in honor of fallen Lincoln soldier

• Auto business petitions for annexation
  Traffic light to be added at Arthur Park subdivision entry on Route 10-Woodlawn Road

• Severe Weather Preparedness Week

  • Flooding

• Sen. Brady addresses landfill problems like those in Pekin

• St. Ambrose University inducts students to Alpha Chi honor society

• Illinois Chamber Orchestra -- 'Mozart meets Beethoven'

• Illinois Symphony Orchestra children's concert -- 'Aesop's Fables'

• Book Look: 'Busted!'

• Letter: Salvation Army thanks Logan County residents

• Area blood drives need support
  Flu hurts blood supplies

• Oasis update

• Brian Eichhorn earns all-UAA track honors

• Iowa State rounds out 2005 gridiron slate

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