Jacksonville Memorial Hospital and Simmons Cancer Institute will offer a free community skin cancer screening event from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 26, at Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, 1600 W. Walnut St.
Monday - Hot turkey sandwich on bread with
Ashland First Baptist Church will be hosting an evening with Danny Funderburk and Anticipation Ministries at 7 p.m. August 22. The church is located at 221 Washington Street in Ashland.
This year’s Beardstown Grand Opera House summer musical is a spellbinding production of “Into the Woods.” The musical is set for July 18, 19 and 20th at the Beardstown High School Auditorium.
Mosquitoes are winged pests no one wants to have around, except for bats and other animals that eat them for dinner. The World Mosquito Program says mosquitoes can spread a number of nasty diseases, including malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika.
The Alzheimer’s Support group will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 13 Beardstown Health and Rehab (old hospital), 8306 St. Lukes Drive, Beardstown. Please enter through the front door.
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Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) hosted a free, five-day Career Quest Camp, “RoboQuest,” June 23-27 at Beardstown Junior High School. Thirteen incoming eighth grade students participated in the camp, which focused on robotics.
Summer is marked by hot and humid conditions. After all, the band The Lovin' Spoonful didn't sing, "Hot town, summer in the city.
After a colder than average winter that brought deep freezes to much of Illinois, local gardeners might be in for a surprisingly productive summer. While residents may have dealt with an unusually brisk winter, those frosty days were quietly working behind the scenes, especially for fruit trees, leafy greens, and hardy herbs.