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CatholicCharities Celebrates a Century of Compassion

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is celebrating one hundred years of providing services to people of all faiths throughout the 28-county Springfield Diocese in Central Illinois. On March 1,1925, Bishop James A. ...

Election Judge training

Cass County Clerk Shelly Wessel announced that the election judge training will be held on Thursday, March 20. The first training session ...

Hear and act

1 In Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Cohort, as it was called. 2 He was a devout man who feared God with all his household; he gave alms generously to the people and prayed constantly to God. ..

Council approves agreement with CDS

In a quick meeting of the Beardstown City Council held Tuesday, March 4, the council vot- ed for Mary Davis as temporary chair in the absence of Mayor Tim Harris...

Fire destroys garage

n February 28 at ap- proximately 5:46 p.m. the Beardstown Fire Department was dispatched to a rural address on Redwood Lane for a grass fire...

Arenzville Cub Scout Pack 137 Pinewood Derby top three. Pictured left Leo Perry, Second Place; middle, Beau Turner, Third Place; and Gavin Gerof First Place. Rounding out the top five in Fourth place were Mac Perry and, Fifth Place Hunter Hill. Pack 137 is led by Ray Geroff.

Pinewood Derby in Cass County

Cub Scout Pack 127 held their Pinewood Derby on February 16 in Beardstown during the VFW Chilli Cook-Off in Beardstown. The Scouts held an exhibition ...

Let Daylight Savings Time begin

Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday, March 9, 2025, by turning or “springing” our clocks forward one hour. But has it always been this way? Have we...

A-C Central School Board

A-C/PORTA co-op likely finished

The athletic co-op between A-C Central and PORTA School Districts will likely come to an end with the expiration of its current term in June. Long-running negotiations have failed to produce an agreement and a meeting between the two districts last month produced little progress.

Lincoln Land Community College Springfield Campus

LLCC to host Engineer in the Classroom for fifth graders

“Outlandish machines” designed by area fifth graders will be on display as Lincoln Land Community College hosts the 18th annual Springfield Area Engineer in the Classroom, a Rube Goldberg Showcase, on Saturday, March 1. The event will take place from 8:30 a.m.