Daily headlines

January 2009

 

Saturday, Jan. 31:

  • Rare opportunity: Three key Lincoln documents to be displayed at presidential museum
    Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery

  • IDOT asks president to bump up Amtrak money in stimulus plan
    Requests $1.1 billion be increased to $5 billion

  • Heartland Community College to host free financial aid workshops Feb. 21

  • $8 million in suspended MAP grants released to college students

  • Local health officials assist with radon awareness and testing

  • New governor's 1st action
    Declares state disaster areas for 7 downstate counties

  • VA technology enhancements to benefit Illinois'  Post-9/11 GI Bill aid recipients

  • Railers lose (OT) contest to Southeast 63-60

  • Marriages

  • YMCA notes

  • Laura on Life: My bathrobe, my friend

  • Home Country (column)

  • Railers lose (OT) contest to Southeast 63-60

  • Benjamin questions decorum of referees

  • Lynx vs. Shawnee game postponed

  • AP news

Friday, Jan. 30:

  • Blagojevich ousted as Ill. gov.; Quinn sworn in

  • Commemorative painting unveiled at Lincoln College (article and pictorial)

  • Christian Village resident sends poem to President Obama

  • Rep. Mitchell backs concealed-carry rights for gun owners

  • Abe's 200th birthday American flag will be given to random recipient

  • Unemployment numbers statewide still growing

  • Safe Ride program for Super Bowl Sunday includes residences

  • St. John United Church of Christ, Holy Family Church, Lincoln College alumni, Lucky Six winners, Montessori Children's House, and Pride and Progress awards make Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Letter: Sen. Bill Brady comments on the governor's impeachment and the tasks ahead for state legislators

  • Police reports

  • Silence

  • AP news

Thursday, Jan. 29:

  • Gone! Illinois Senate votes 59-0 to impeach Blagojevich (5:01 p.m. update)

  • Quinn sworn in by Illinois Supreme Court justice

  • Blagojevich pleads his case to impeachment trial (12:45 p.m. update)

  • Carroll Catholic 'Celebrate Service' week (pictorial)

  • State Board of Ed. asks for $173 million increase

  • Blagojevich to speak at impeachment trial

  • Eaton names 3 vice chairmen, reorganizes businesses into electrical and industrial sectors
    Company will report 6 financial segments

  • ALMH receives state approval for replacement hospital

  • IDOT, state police join in warning to Super Bowl partyers

  • Police report

  • Mount Pulaski community calendar for February

  • Red, White & True Mysteries: Helen Keller's life changed forever when she met this inventor

  • Logan Lanes: Logan Lassies

  • Lynx edge Lewis and Clark 77-74

  • AP news

Wednesday, Jan. 28:

  • 2-vehicle crash with fatality in Logan County

  • ALMH receives state approval for replacement hospital

  • FBI tapes played at governor's impeachment trial

  • City asks for cooperation with snow removal

  • City briefs: City adds new firehouse to economic stimulus funding request; Fifth Street Road remains top priority
    Lincoln police to go heavy on the streets Super Bowl Sunday; and other discussions

  • Police chief: Increased patrols for Super Bowl evening

  • Lincoln/Logan County Chamber of Commerce offering ag scholarships

  • ALMH to offer interactive diabetes classes

  • Police reports

  • Support group explores divorce-related topics
    First session next week

  • Oasis notes

  • Letters:

    • New ministry offering services to the community

    • Support license to carry

  • S.O.S. club

  • Book Look: 'I Love Dirt!'

  • IDPH warns of listeriosis

  • Logan Lanes: Tuesday Super Trios

  • Lynx wrestlers take 2 at dual meet

  • AP news

Tuesday, Jan. 27:

  • Travel alert: Winter storm making travel hazardous in southern Illinois

  • Lincoln Daily News in 10th year of publishing in Lincoln and Logan County
    Starting our 10th year, we remember our legacy from those before us

  • Local February events scheduled for Lincoln birthday

  • Local counselor opens new business

  • Local real estate office not renewing franchise

  • Special Lincoln events hosted by presidential library and museum

  • Habitat for Humanity, Main Street Lincoln, Zion Lutheran School, Sgt. Jared Johnson, Lincoln Park District and Park Meadows Baptist Church make Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Letter: City treasurer endorses Keith Snyder for mayor

  • Police reports

  • Weekly Outlook: Corn, soybean exports

  • This week's 'Viewpoint' guest

  • Park district notes

  • Laura on Life: Baby-Making 101

  • Logan Lanes:

    • American Bowling League

    • Split 'n' Gutter League

  • Mayfield's Mutterings: Illini progress report
    By Jeff Mayfield

  • AP news

Monday, Jan. 26:

  • New winter storm to make travel most hazardous to the south

  • Personality of the Week
    Shirley Bartelmay and volunteers save Postville Courthouse -- twice

  • Brauer, Poe & AFSCME: Logan Correctional Center a catastrophe waiting to happen

  • 'Lincoln in Lincoln' painting unveiling scheduled Thursday at Lincoln College

  • Senate week in review: Impeachment, moment of silence top the news

  • Editorial: As times get hard, what will we do?

  • Recall information

  • Police reports

  • Park district notes

  • Love your enemies

  • Railers take Meijer Winter Classic with pair of wins, move to 19-2

  • Lynx wrestlers 3-1 in dual meet competition

  • Lincoln College Lynx 87, John Wood 61

  • AP news

Saturday, Jan. 24:

  • Simonson family rebuilding with the help of faith and community

  • VFW supports Community Action Head Start

  • Eaton job cutbacks include 60 at local plant

  • Lincoln mayoral candidates tell how they'd run the city
    Listening key to audio

    • Mayoral candidate forum (audio replay)

  • National economic recession triggers further job losses in Illinois

  • Court reports

  • (No marriage licenses)

  • Dissolutions

  • YMCA notes

  • Home Country (column)

  • Railers whirl past Tornadoes 57-23

  • AP news

Friday, Jan. 23:

  • Lincoln mayoral candidates tell how they’d run the city
    Listening key to audio

    • Mayoral candidate forum (audio replay)

  • Humane Society holds annual meeting; new board elected, accomplishments cited
    Members look to even better 2009

  • The Woods Foundation helps Community Action go green

  • Famed baseball scout 'Brownie' passes away

  • Rep. Mitchell calls for citizen response: 'Say no to state gas tax increase'

  • The United Way, Junior Achievement, Sheldon Tibbs, Olympia FFA Alumni, Railsplitting Association and Heartland Community College all in Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Police report

  • IPT Bull Sale catalog on Web

  • AP news

Thursday, Jan. 22:

  • Police chief: Vigilant neighbors thwart home burglary

  • State gives grants to 51 local emergency operations centers
    Logan County to receive $14,842

  • City: Treasurer's analysis of revenues to date; obsolete firehouse spurs outreach for funds; Dick Logan to join Lincoln Planning Commission; and more
    (Revenue chart added)

  • Authors to present special programs leading up to Lincoln's 200th birthday

  • Letter: Children's response to the president's inauguration

  • Police reports

  • Beef cattle seminars set

  • Red, White & True Mysteries: Inventor Stanley Weston created the world's 1st doll for boys

  • Lincoln 57, Highland 41

  • AP news

Wednesday, Jan. 21:

  • City: Treasurer's analysis of revenues to date; obsolete firehouse spurs outreach for funds; Dick Logan to join Lincoln Planning Commission; and more

  • Comcast among cable companies fined by FCC
    Companies under scrutiny for changing channel lineups, offering fewer channels, less service at greater costs

  • With inauguration over, state and country turn toward Lincoln Bicentennial

  • District 9 traffic fatalities down significantly in 2008

  • Letter: Children's response to the president's inauguration

  • Police reports

  • Support group explores divorce-related topics

  • Oasis notes

  • Logan Lanes:

    • Logan Lassies

    • Tuesday Super Trios

  • AP news

Tuesday, Jan. 20:

  • Obama takes office, saying choose 'hope over fear'

  • Remember when... President Obama's visit to Lincoln College as a senator (2005)

  • Crowds pack frigid Mall for Obama's inauguration

  • County to seek health insurance proposals
    And other committee reports

  • Hundman Lumber and Dana Bell, the YMCA, Humane Society, United Cerebral Palsy, and Wood Chopper's Ball in Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Weekly Outlook: Corn and soybean acreage

  • This week's 'Viewpoint' guest

  • Laura on Life: Well days

  • Logan Lanes:

    • American Bowling League

    • Split 'n' Gutter League

  • Lincoln College wrestling

  • AP news

Monday, Jan. 19:

  • Personality of the Week
    A leader in everything he does: Don Peasley

  • Lincoln community holds Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast (pictures)

  • Remembering Martin Luther King's last struggle: the Memphis sanitation workers strike

  • Lincoln College students will celebrate inaugural event

  • Recall information

  • Support group explores divorce-related topics

  • Railers 62, LaSalle-Peru 40

  • Hobler excels at AAU event

  • AP news

Saturday, Jan. 17:

  • State Bank of Lincoln receives top USDA award

  • Academic honors earned at Lincoln College

  • County could start charging per-call fee to communities without animal control contract

  • Editor's note: Liquidators send out Goody's closing update

  • Marriages

  • Dissolutions

  • YMCA notes

  • Home Country (column)

  • Lincoln 55, Lanphier 48

  • AP news

Friday, Jan. 16:

  • Bitter cold shuts down schools, day cares, events. Check before leaving home!

  • County could start charging per-call fee to communities without animal control contract

  • Sen. Brady: Priority for new General Assembly: impeachment trial

  • Burris takes his place as Obama's Senate successor

  • Melanie Riggs, Alexander I. Custodio III, Jason Sheley and Alice Turner make Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Editor's note: Liquidators send out Goody's closing update

  • Police reports

  • Rejoice

  • H.O.P.E. and weather

  • AP news

Thursday, Jan. 15:

  • Bitter cold cancels schools, day cares, events
    Please call before traveling

  • Two-vehicle fatal crash in Mount Pulaski

  • ALHF Healthcare Careers Scholarship applications now available

  • State announces early application date for IL Cares Rx and Circuit Breaker

  • Police reports

  • Red, White & True Mysteries: Road-building industry has interesting origin

  • Logan Lanes: Logan Lassies

  • AP news

Wednesday, Jan. 14:

  • Thursday morning: Schools in Logan County are closed due to frigid weather

  • Morning crash in Mount Pulaski claims life of young Mount Zion woman
    2nd weather-related crash fatality in Logan County in a week

  • City approached with request that could add new facility in business district

  • Arctic blast arrives this afternoon

  • Information on cold weather driving and survival

  • Coroner warns of snow shoveling risks

  • LCC student tells of internship at White House

  • Police reports

  • Humane Society of Logan County chili this Saturday

  • DivorceCare moves to Tuesday evenings

  • Oasis update

  • Letter: In praise of Paul Beaver as Citizen of the Year for 2008

  • H.O.P.E. Mobile on the move in Latham

  • Logan Lanes: Tuesday Super Trios

  • AP news

Tuesday, Jan. 13:

  • Young Lincolnite 'powers up' a new business

  • The Burris saga takes new turns

    • Senate Democrats expect to seat Burris

    • Legislation for emergency election for Obama replacement proposed by Democrat

  • Farm Credit announces agriculture scholarship program

  • Christian Village, New Holland-Middletown District 88, Mary Todd Lincoln luncheon, Humane Society, YMCA and New Holland firemen all in Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Police reports

  • This week's 'Viewpoint' guest

  • DivorceCare moves to Tuesday evenings

  • Letter: Response to editorial about the old soldier monument

  • December food inspection scores

  • Logan Lanes:

    • American Bowling League

    • Split 'n' Gutter League

  • AP news

Monday, Jan. 12:

  • Main Street Lincoln honors contributors (pictorial)

  • Personality of the Week
    Community leader, Kroger employee respected in multiple roles: Kathy Horn

  • Smithsonian exhibit Jan. 16-March 22 features Lincoln memorabilia

  • Recall information

  • Police reports

  • Enough!

  • LCHS' competitive cheerleaders take 1st place at Riverton invitational

  • Lincoln Youth Wrestling results

  • AP news

Saturday, Jan. 10:

  • Slumping economy hits locally: Goody's files for bankruptcy
    Local store to close Jan. 22

  • Car chase ends in Lincoln with arrest

  • Community Action cheeseburgers back on March 21

  • 2nd-wettest year on record for Illinois

  • Marriages

  • Park district notes

  • YMCA notes

  • Laura on Life: 'Golden Eating Rule'

  • Home Country (column)

  • Railers roll over SHG 60-42

  • AP news

Friday, Jan. 9:

  • ALMH health care heroines

  • Illinois House on verge of impeaching Blagojevich

  • Governor claims no due process in hearings

  • Upcoming seasonal weight limits on county highways

  • Lincoln's legal papers now available online

  • Christian Child Care, park district writing course, Humane Society Tree of Hope, Jaycees, Austyn Wayne Huskins first baby of the year in Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Police reports

  • Beef cattle seminar set

  • January Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

  • AP news

Thursday, Jan. 8:

  • New Logan County Board getting its footing
    District 6 seat remains vacant
    (Part 1)

  • Health department's home health agency receives recognition

  • 2-vehicle fatal crash on Route 136 near Logan County 1475 Ave.

  • Memorable former teacher turns 100 years old

  • Ill. panel to grill Burris on Senate appointment

  • Lincoln Police Dept. holiday patrol results

  • Editorial: We need to restore the old soldier monument

  • Police reports

  • H.O.P.E. Mobile on the move in Latham

  • Health department offers free prostate and oral cancer screenings

  • Red, White & True Mysteries: Was real-life doctor's resemblance to fictional doctor just a coincidence?

  • Logan Lanes: Logan Lassies

  • AP news

Wednesday, Jan. 7:

  • Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks

  • Health department offers free prostate and oral cancer screenings

  • Utility pole on Union Street damaged by vehicle (pictorial)

  • LCHS presents play this weekend

  • Snyder's plan to energize economic development

  • Police reports

  • Railers hold on for 34-32 win over Springfield

  • Logan Lanes: Split 'n' Gutter League

  • AP news

Tuesday, Jan. 6:

  • Suspect shot dead after high-speed chase in Ill.

  • Burris determined to take his Senate seat today

  • ISAC salutes late Sen. Claiborne Pell

  • AMVETS, Main Street, Habitat for Humanity, Zonta, Humane Society, Homework Helper and YMCA all in Close Up
    By Mike Fak

  • Police reports

  • Illinois EPA to recognize work on environmental and conservation projects with Green Youth Awards

  • Weekly Outlook: Hog profits

  • This week's 'Viewpoint' guest

  • Logan Lanes: American Bowling League

  • AP news

Monday, Jan. 5:

  • Chamber Gov/Ed Committee and Lincoln College Student Senate co-host mayoral forum

  • Personality of the Week
    Melody Shew: A 27-year commitment to downtown Lincoln as good as gold

  • Partnership allows affordable reconnections for those without utility service

  • 1860s ball on Lincoln's Birthday open to public

  • Recall information

  • Police reports

  • Youth wrestling results

  • AP news

Friday-Saturday, Jan. 2-3:
(Holiday weekend edition)

  • Trees that beautify Lincoln all part of a plan
    Tree farm saves taxpayers money and earns 'Tree City USA' designation

  • Lincoln's tree culture, a century old and still growing (pictorial)

  • Democrats plan cool reception for Senate appointee Burris

  • New public safety laws effective Jan. 1

  • New law cracking down on drunk drivers in effect

  • Police reports

  • Dissolutions

  • January library notes

  • YMCA motto for 2009: 'We are Raising the Bar'

  • Home Country (column)

  • Red, White & True Mysteries: 'It was a dark and stormy night' for the inventor

  • AP news

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