Visit Springfield, the official tourism and destination marketing organization for the City of Springfield, is launched the Springfield Horseshoe Sandwich Trail on January 11, 2024! This new program aims to heighten the awareness of the awesome food scene in Springfield along with the long-standing tradition of the “shoe” in town.
Another year has come and gone, and it is time to look back at some of the major stories that filled the front pages of the Cass County Star-Gazette. Complete articles and all your local news from the past year can be found anytime on our website www.beardstownnewspapers.com.
This Friday, January 12, 2024, the 1959 Gymnasium at Beardstown High School will be formally dedicated to the Tigers’ former head coach Bob Hembrough. The gym was the site of an era of unmatched success for Beardstown High School basketball under Hembrough. He led the Tiger basketball team from 1973 to 1976,
The Beardstown City Council met for a New Year’s meeting on January 2, 2004 to discuss the new Building and Zoning Ordinance that John Schnepper has been working on for several months now. Schnepper asked the council to really take a good look at it once the city attorney, Jeff Soltermann, returned it to the council. Schnepper said he had made a few minor changes before turning it over to the city attorney for the final draft. He said some badly
The Beardstown Food Pantry will officially mark the end of its first year of operation Sunday, Jan 14, by establishing an unexpected bench mark. In its first year of operation, the local pantry provided needed food assistance to feed more than 10,000 people.
“When we opened our doors last January 15, we had no idea what to expect,” said Joe Engelbrecht, food pantry president. “All we knew when we started, was that there was a need. We had no idea how big that need was.”
The Family Credit Union, is highlighting an employee within their Beardstown branch. Branch manager, Adriana Estrada-Avalos, recently surpassed $5 million in loans. No other lender at their credit union has achieved this milestone. She is bringing in more loans than many other in-town branches.
Carrie Carls has been named chief nursing officer at Jacksonville Memorial Hospital. Carls, who has worked as a nurse at JMH for nearly 29 years, has been serving in the role in an interim capacity since the retirement of Leanna Wynn in July 2023.
In our country today there is a national security and health crisis that hardly anyone knows about. And that crisis is Veteran suicide. More than 65,000 Veterans have committed suicide since 2010. That is more deaths than the Vietnam War and the operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The highest rate being among veteran males between the age of 18 and 34. 69.4 percent of those suicides result from firearm injury. What are we to do about this? This is a complex issue with no one single cause or answer. But there is hope and there is help.
Menard Electric Cooperative is offering three 2024 Scholarships: $2,000 to a 4-year college/university, $1,500 to a 2-year/community college, and $1,500 to a vocational/technical program.
The Cass County Courthouse will be closed Monday, January 15 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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A-C Central Community Unit School District No.262 will hold its regular Board of Education meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 in the Board Conference Room, 501 W. Buchanan Street in Ashland.