Two weeks ago, I arrived home from attending the dedication of the new Beardstown Swimming Pool and enjoyed a nice dinner with our son Don, daughter Ann, and Christine, my wife.
Train issues have been brought to the Bluffs Village board.
The Chandlerville village board voted last Wednesday to hire a temporary employee whose duties would be mowing and weeding in the village cemetery.
The Bluffs School board met in regular session last week, approved were the tentative budget for the upcoming school year and a host of new hires.
West-central Illinois area based southern gos-pel trio, Two By Two, will appear in concert Sunday, Aug. 27 at 3 p.m. at the Beardstown Church of the Nazarene, 919 Jackson St., Beardstown.
CrimeStoppers of Mor-gan & Scott County are re-questing information to as-sist the Jacksonville Police Department in their inves-tigation of a recent theft. Sometime between 4 p.m. on Aug.
On Aug. 21, a total so-lar eclipse will be visible across portions of South-ern Illinois, and a partial eclipse will be visible across the entire state.
The Beardstown Sani-tary District has obtained a second set of bids for plant improvements, but is cur-rently awaiting approval from the U.S.
Beekeeping has become a popular hobby for many people. People become involved in beekeeping for a variety of different reasons.
New trash totes for Beardstown residents are expected within a couple weeks, according to Mayor Leslie Harris.
The 37th Annual Christmas in Greenview event will be held on Sat-urday, Nov., 18, 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The Beardstown Main Street is preparing to host the Annual Taste of Beardstown and Art in the Park. The event will be on Saturday, Aug. 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
At Dickson Mounds Museum on Thursday, Sept.
The dark day is nearly here… are you ready to capture it? For the first time in 38 years, a total solar eclipse will occur in the contiguous United States on Aug.
Residents of Chapin will soon receive free curbside pickup of yard waste. Village trustees adopted an ordinance at their August meeting to soon announce a regular pickup schedule.
A total solar eclipse will be visible from southern Illinois on Monday, Aug. 21. While the eclipse will still be visible from the Springfield area, it will not quite be total.
At Dickson Mounds Museum on Saturday, Sept. 2, from 7-10 p.m.
Isaias Torres of Beard-stown tested for his third red belt. He had to perform his forms, self-defense techniques, breaking tech-niques, and free fighting.
Slowly and step by step, efforts are proceeding to provide Beardstown with access to the Illinois River.
The Fall series of Uni-versity of Illinois Exten-sion’s Four Seasons Gar-dening program, which focuses on environmental stewardship, home gar-dening, and backyard food production, gets underway thi
