Daily headlines

March 2011

 

Thursday, March 31:

  • City budget straw vote: Final numbers for community partners come in at $57,500

  • Ag Education Day -- album

  • Temporary closing of Keokuk at railroad crossing announced

  • Reminder: Community Health Fair Saturday

  • Lincoln College students steal the show

  • House lawmakers plan less funding for elementary and high schools

  • Community college cash crunch expected to continue

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Lynx win in lopsided fashion at Illinois College

  • AP news

Wednesday, March 30:

  • City budget: Some community partners looking at cuts

  • City Briefs: Electricity, land, early retirement and more

  • Mayor meets with Comcast and Lincoln College

  • LCDPH cuts the ribbon on new dental clinic

  • Lincoln Theater improving interior -- album

  • Tax hike small part of Illinois' business climate

  • Precautions to prevent anhydrous ammonia accidents

  • Spring gardening
    By John Fulton

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Book Look: Philosophy, microbiotics, crime

  • Laura on Life: Hawaiian days

  • LC baseball

  • LC softball

  • Red Lions baseball

  • Logan Lanes: Tuesday Super Trios

  • AP news

Tuesday, March 29:

  • 2011-12 budget-building, phase 2
    City looks at revenues for the coming year

  • LCHS teacher charged with 7 counts

  • Free drinking water nitrate screening at health fair

  • Exhibit on Illinois Civil War soldiers opens April 12 at presidential library

  • Illinois delays college construction projects

  • Mount Pulaski history books, Junior Lynx basketball tournament, Honor Flight, Olympia High School FFA, Lincoln wrestlers and local blood drives make Close Up

  • Letters:

    • Former school superintendent supports 1-cent sales tax for school buildings

    • County school facility tax would help schools with aging buildings, relieving property owners now and in the future -- Mount Pulaski Community Unit District

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Lynx take pair from conference foe Lewis & Clark

  • Logan Lanes:

    • American Bowling League

    • Split N Gutter League

  • AP news

Monday, March 28:

  • B*SAFE: Bankers and Seniors against Financial Exploitation offers training to local bank tellers

  • Social networking webinar explains possibilities using modern technology

  • New Springfield Clinic Lincoln opens its doors today

  • County Briefs: Health insurance increase to be shared; other reports

  • Logan County Ag Education Day Wednesday

  • Van Hook and Denlinger win regional debate

  • Public notices not yet online-ready

  • Letter: 1-cent sales tax to support Chester-East Lincoln CCSD 61

  • Recalls announced

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Lincoln Youth Wrestling awards

  • LC baseball results

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Rollin 66ers

    • Sunday Night Mixed

  • AP news

Saturday, March 26:

  • Civil War statue committee prepared for April 9 dedication

  • Gas thieves living dangerously

  • Hog Wild Happenings ends -- Album 1

  • Hog Wild Happenings ends -- Album 2

  • Hog Wild Happenings ends -- Album 3

  • State holds Medicaid program steady in face of cuts nationwide

  • Tax income drops off for Illinois in 2010

  • Local real estate agents recognized

  • HOPE Mobile schedule for April

  • Marriages

  • Home Country: Stop for the professional whistle-blower

  • Colclasure signs with Lincoln Christian

  • AP news

Friday, March 25:

  • Move complete: New ALMH facility is open

  • The new ALMH is open -- album

  • Ag Scholarship Breakfast -- Album 1

  • Ag Scholarship Breakfast -- Album 2

  • County supports high-speed rail committee recommendations

  • Petting zoo comes to Chester-East Lincoln -- album

  • Local school officials: Cuts will cost state in long run

  • Federal budget cuts endanger workforce training centers

  • Lincoln Youth Football, Knights of Columbus, Gov. Oglesby exhibit, dental clinic, Kailey Wilmarth benefit, Savanna Freehill benefit and Mount Pulaski waste pickup make Close Up

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Bumpers

    • Junior-Senior

    • Logan Lassies

    • Preps

  • AP news

Thursday, March 24:

  • Chamber's 12th annual Ag Scholarship Breakfast gives out $9,000 in scholarships

  • Firehouse news with Chief Mark Miller

  • Burleigh Willard devoted his life to others

  • Hog Wild Happenings at Chester-East Lincoln continue -- album

  • Tuition going up 6.9% at U of I

  • Quinn asks to borrow, again, but in a smaller amount

  • Opponents attack federal health care reform law on its anniversary

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Jay Bird League

    • Tuesday Super Trios

  • AP news

Wednesday, March 23:

  • Quinn lays tracks for high-speed rail

  • Hog Wild Happenings at C-EL continue -- album

  • Illinois state universities may charge students more

  • Emails to Wis. gov initially favored union rights

  • Letter: 1 cent makes sense for Logan County

  • Weeds and fairy rings
    By John Fulton

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Laura on Life: The apology

  • Red Lions drop 2 to Eureka

  • AP news

Tuesday, March 22:

  • City Briefs: Speedway gets unanimous green flag; 2010 Officer of the Year; treasurer's report for February

  • Governor's proposed state budget cut threatens local school support system

  • Anna Simpson celebrates 100 years of blessings

  • Motorists: New traffic signals on Lincoln Parkway

  • Health department recommends home radon testing

  • Risk of large hail and damaging winds for central Illinois after midnight

  • This day in history

  • Crafts guild, LCU's Rich Knopp and Team Warrior Concepts in Close Up

  • Park district notes

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • LCU baseball

  • Logan Lanes:

    • American Bowling League

    • Split N Gutter League

  • AP news

Monday, March 21:

  • Looking for Lincoln partnership event Album 1

  • Looking for Lincoln partnership event Album 2

  • Looking for Lincoln partnership event Album 3

  • Boy Scout Troop 1102's luncheon sells almost 1,000 tickets -- album

  • Habitat dedicates 15th home -- album

  • Hog Wild Happenings at Chester-East Lincoln School -- album

  • Today is the last day to RSVP for the chamber's Ag Scholarship Breakfast

  • LAMS prepares for spring concert April 2-3

    • The Lincoln Area Music Society Orchestra album

    • The Lincoln Area Music Society Chorale album

  • 2011 Polar Plunge brings in $45,682

    • Album 1   Album 2   Album 3   Album 4

  • Probation officers hit by statewide budget cuts

  • Recalls announced

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Lynx national champs again

  • Lynx bring home national championship -- album

  • LC softball results

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Rollin 66ers

    • Sunday Night Mixed

  • AP news

Saturday, March 19:

  • 2011-12 budget-building begins
    Part 6: Development partnership, chamber, Main Street Lincoln and others submit requests for funding

  • Healthy Aging and Nutrition Seminar at Christian Village on Tuesday

  • Harris brothers' hearings continue
    Forensic testing to be completed in June

  • Lynx back in national championship game

  • Sins of past governors prompt legislation

  • State school board reports 2,000 teacher layoffs in 2010

  • Dissolutions

  • Home Country: Earrings with a catch

  • Lynx back in national championship game

  • AP news

Friday, March 18:

  • 2011-12 budget-building begins
    Part 5: Sewage treatment, city clerk and mayor

  • Logan County could apply for federal disaster funds
    Snowstorm of Jan. 31-Feb. 3 eligible for federal disaster aid

  • Blades hosts Chamber After Hours -- album

  • LCU Bookstore hosts local author for book signing Tuesday

  • February unemployment rate falls to 8.9 percent

  • GOP to Quinn: Cut $5 billion from budget

  • Lawmakers look to save Illinois' gambling industry

  • Business, labor hash out payment of Ill.'s multibillion-dollar unemployment debt

  • Humane Society, 4-H'er Todd Irwin, Faith Smith and genealogical society make Close Up

  • Letter: Congratulations, Lincoln, on new Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital and Springfield Clinic

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Lynx head to NJCAA Final Four for 3rd year in a row

  • Lincoln College baseball splits with Kaskaskia

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Bumpers

    • Jay Bird League

    • Junior-Senior

    • Logan Lassies

    • Preps

  • AP news

Thursday, March 17:

  • 2011-12 budget-building begins
    Part 4: Jackson and Mathon: streets, alleys, sidewalks, forestry, lighting and road rehab

  • City Briefs: Lawnmower Run, enterprise zone, property decisions and more

  • Annual Children's Health Fair planned for April 1

  • Annual Community Health Fair at park district April 2

  • Bomke: Cigarette tax not needed for capital project

  • Board of Education, gov's office clash over funding

  • Illinois Senate sets its own budget numbers

  • Letter: 1% occupational sales tax increase a positive for community

  • Spring lawn seedings
    By John Fulton

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Logan Lanes: Tuesday Super Trios

  • AP news

Wednesday, March 16:

  • City Briefs: NASCAR coming to Lincoln Speedway
    City and speedway owner reach new level of cooperation

  • 2011-12 budget-building begins
    Part 3: Miller and Lebegue present budgets for the coming year

  • Bee's Floral and Landscaping/RJD Hobbies and Raceway says 'thank you' for 25 years

  • LJHS hosts District 27 technology awards -- album

    • District 27 technology awards winners

  • Coldwell Banker Cornerstone affiliates with Coldwell Banker Corp.

  • Lincoln Jaycees hosting lawnmower clinic March 26

  • Challenges levied at open government

  • Cullerton eyes cigarette tax hike, GOP backs away

  • April writers club meeting

  • Births:

    • Riley Dawn Marie Featherstone

    • Jasmine Lee Hulvey

    • Lilyana Cecilia Rives-Monroe

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Laura on Life: A cave-inn

  • Lynx win 1st tournament game

  • AP news

Tuesday, March 15:

  • 2011-12 budget-building begins
    Part 2: Chief Greenslate asks for another officer: 'We can drive around in junk, but we need help.'

  • Some tickets still available for Looking for Lincoln, Main Street partnership event Sunday
  • The mysterious cost of Medicaid reform

  • Serious jail time for recording cops

  • Schools or jails: Ill. law enforcement asks state to make good on classroom programs

  • This day in history

  • Blood drives, 'Permission to Speak Freely' at First Presbyterian Church, Draw 4 Carroll, San Jose United Methodist Church fish fry and Nathan J. Graham make Close Up

  • Some tickets still available for Looking for Lincoln, Main Street partnership event Sunday
  • The mysterious cost of Medicaid reform

  • Serious jail time for recording cops

  • Schools or jails: Ill. law enforcement asks state to make good on classroom programs

  • Letter: Thanks to Atlanta Fire Dept.

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Logan Lanes:

    • American Bowling League

    • Split N Gutter

  • AP news

Monday, March 14:

  • 2011-12 budget-building begins
    Part 1: Snyder: 'We need a city manager'; council agrees

  • Vandal(s) being sought by authorities

  • Logan County tentative multiplier announced

  • State reminds consumers to check flood insurance before heavy spring rains

  • IDOT partners with state and local law enforcement to boost safety for St. Patrick's Day
    Efforts include saturation patrols, roadside safety checks and enforcement zones

  • Report: Internet usage transforming news industry

  • AG Madigan: Sunshine laws shining light on Illinois government

  • Recalls announced

  • Marriages

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Seniors struggle to finish Illinois career well
    By Greg Taylor

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Rollin 66ers

    • Sunday Night Mixed

  • AP news

Saturday, March 12:

  • Plans for community garden growing

  • Political cartoons at Lincoln College exhibit shed light on Lincoln's popularity during his life

  • Zion Lutheran students win honors

  • Illinois' Circuit Breaker program could be switched off

  • Quinn finally sets DHS cut at $57 million

  • How to support Japan earthquake relief efforts

  • Home Country: Sally says spring

  • AP news

Friday, March 11:

  • From first shovel to fruition, ALMH readies to serve community

    • Groundbreaking for new hospital -- a look back  (June 2009)

    • Cornerstone unveiling at new ALMH -- a look back  (December 2010)

    • New ALMH is dedicated

    • Ribbon-cuts and link with past at ALMH

    • A tour of the new ALMH -- Album 1

    • A tour of the new ALMH -- Album 2

    • A tour of the new ALMH -- Album 3

  • Beth Fleshman named Illinois Head Start Administrator of the Year

  • Turbine damages rail track, then leaves

  • Wanted: Polar Plungers to jump into Lincoln Lakes on March 19

  • Spring wildflowers of Elkhart Hill -- dinner-lecture on April 15

  • Local unemployment rates fall again throughout state
    Unemployment drops in every county for 2nd consecutive month

  • State could get billion-dollar boost

  • GOP budget: Up to $6 billion in cuts now will ease pain later

  • Sen. Bomke co-sponsors bill protecting privacy of gun owners

  • Concealed-carry law may need supermajority

  • Thousands of gun owners rally at the Capitol

  • Quinn OKs online tax

  • This day in history

  • Mount Pulaski American Legion Stag, Draw 4 Carroll, Lincoln Church of the Nazarene breakfast, Lincoln Woman's Club prayer breakfast and Zumba lessons make Close Up

  • Birth: Lea Kathleen Boyd

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Mayfield's Mutterings: Greetings, basketball fans, from the Big Ten tournament
    By Jeff Mayfield

  • AP news

Thursday, March 10:

  • Illinois abolishes death penalty, commutes sentences of all remaining death row inmates

  • Habitat for Humanity house blessing March 20

  • Brown, Mitchell comment on concealed-carry law passing House committee

  • Protesters flood Wis. Capitol over anti-union vote
    GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining

  • Illinois universities: Half is not enough

  • Stationary state police possible

  • Police reports

  • LC baseball results

  • LC softball results

  • LC women's basketball postseason honors

  • Logan Lanes: Jay Bird League

  • AP news

Wednesday, March 9:

  • City Briefs: High-speed rail, development partnership update and more

  • Lesleigh Bennett sings at Chad's Blind April 14

  • Higher electricity rates could be coming

  • Ready to pack a concealed handgun? Not so fast

  • New lawmakers thrust into guns debate

  • Flu facts

  • Home fruit spray schedules
    By John Fulton

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Laura on Life: Mucus mayhem

  • Logan Lanes:

    • American Bowling League

    • Tuesday Super Trios

  • AP news

Tuesday, March 8:

  • Comcast says service to city is 'state of the art' but city council not satisfied

  • High-speed rail meeting answers concerns for Logan County leaders
    Part 2

  • Fulscher to receive another honor -- in his wrestling career

  • National Groundwater Awareness Week March 6-12

  • Middle Eastern turmoil causes spike in gas prices; spike in gas tax for state?

  • 10th-wettest February on record for Illinois

  • Illinois preparing to comply with national health care reform

  • Skippy peanut butter recall

  • HSLC rummage sale, Hartsburg-Emden FFA, community garden, Warren and Jean Peters, Lincoln Heritage Museum and school referendum meeting at Oasis make Close Up

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • LC swimming & diving teams finish 3rd at nationals

  • LC baseball in Florida

  • Logan Lanes: Split N Gutter League

  • AP news

Monday, March 7:

  • High-speed rail meeting answers concerns for Logan County leaders

  • Mt. Pulaski celebrates Casimir Pulaski -- Album 1

  • Mt. Pulaski celebrates Casimir Pulaski -- Album 2

  • Ill. could remove public notices from newspapers

  • Ill. leads nation in single-school districts

  • Recalls announced

  • Births:

    • Kimber Elizabeth Crosier-Kenwood

    • Dominic Allen Leon

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Mayfield's Mutterings: Illini dismantle the Hoosiers
    By Jeff Mayfield

  • Lincoln College men's basketball wins regional championship 62-61 over Danville

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Rollin 66ers

    • Sunday Night Mixed

  • AP news

Saturday, March 5:

  • Looking for Lincoln, Main Street partnership event scheduled for March 20

  • Chamber hosts sales tax referendum meeting

  • Students initiated into Phi Theta Kappa at Lincoln College

  • Lawmakers looking into reforming pension system -- again

  • Auditor: State's pension hole grew in 2010

  • Tax error will cost U of I grad students

  • Dissolutions

  • Home Country: 'Seven Dog Slim' remembers

  • AP news

Friday, March 4:

  • Expectant families invited to event at new hospital and medical office building

  • Layman Art Gallery exhibit features Drew Tucker's 'Lincoln is Bigger Than Me'

  • Zion Lutheran headed to state finals -- album

  • Authorities nab 2 in local drug bust

  • U of I ag economists predict corn consumption and prices for 2011

  • January unemployment rate falls to 9.0

  • Illinois budget: $33.2 billion, or not

  • Abolish all Illinois public school districts? Not yet

  • Lawmakers to DHS: Provide better services with less money

  • Letter: Vote 'no' for higher permanent local school taxes

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • LC swimming has another great day at nationals

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Bumpers

    • Junior-Senior

    • Logan Lassies

    • Preps

  • AP news

Thursday, March 3:

  • City Briefs: Accrued overtime, safety complex, city farm and more

  • Concealed-carry proposals still alive in House

  • Driver's ed costs once again issue at Statehouse

  • State economic development director announces $3.2 million available for recycling programs

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Lincoln Youth Wrestling regional results

  • Lincoln College swim team breaks records 1st day at NJCAA nationals

  • Lincoln College women's cross country team earns academic award

  • WLNX to air regional tournament

  • AP news

Wednesday, March 2:

  • Mayor tells Comcast to cover meetings, provide public access channel

  • Dr. Mary Ahillen discusses poverty and Title I in District 27 schools
    Part 2

  • Chamber hosts forum for school funding

  • Farm Credit offering $250 community improvement grants to 4-H and FFA

  • Schools ask for more money from state

  • Finding true budget number challenging

  • Monken finally confirmed -- as new Emergency Management Agency director

  • Pruning tips and nuisance pests
    By John Fulton

  • Births:

    • Faith LeAnn Sue Martinie

    • Juliet Divine Sisk

    • Bentley Eugene Wilkerson

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Laura on Life: 'Amazing Miles'

  • It's over. Railers' season ends in first-round loss

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Jay Bird League

    • Tuesday Super Trios

  • AP news

Tuesday, March 1:

  • Dr. Mary Ahillen discusses poverty and Title I in District 27 schools
    Part 1

  • Absentee voting begins

  • Legislature facing tough budget choices

  • New lawmakers not shy about ideas, topics

  • Chamber Buck raffle, First Cumberland Presbyterian, Lincoln Youth Wrestling, Erich Maxheimer, tree sale and chamber ag scholarships make the Close Up

  • Police reports

  • Fire and rescue reports

  • Logan Lanes: Split N Gutter League

  • AP news

 

 

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