Long-serving Gillespie city alderman Jim Alderson submitted his resignation at the conclusion of a contentious city council meeting Monday night during which city officials fielded complaints about the policy regarding tent camping on residential lots at Gillespie Lake. In other action, the council approved a grant of up to $2,500 from the city’s Tax Increment […]

Members of the Wilsonville Board of Trustees on Monday night accepted Village Treasurer Gina Frensko’s recommendation to purchase a new software system for processing water bills, briefly sparred with a resident who filed a complaint about a neighbor’s noisy muffler, and accepted a bid to replace a section of sidewalk removed more than a month […]

Several residents of a neighborhood on the northeast side of Benld told the Benld City Council on Monday night that they feel threatened by alleged drug activity in the neighborhood and they asked the city to cooperate with them on strategies to address the problem. Speaking for the group, Brandi Olroyd reported a recent incident […]

With minimal discussion, the Gillespie City Council on Monday night approved a $15 million appropriation ordinance to govern municipal spending for the current fiscal year, which began May 1. Like the previous year’s ordinance, the new appropriation includes the authority to spend up to $10 million for water infrastructure improvements. Those improvements will be funded […]

The Benld City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to adopt an appropriation ordinance limiting expenditures to slightly more than $1 million for the fiscal year began May 1. In addition, city officials heard complaints from two city residents regarding a property they say is strewn with derelict lawn equipment and scrap wood in violation […]

Wilsonville village officials are planning a public meeting to gauge citizen interest in becoming a part of the Illinois Alluvial Regional Water Co., a cooperative under development to supply water to several rural communities in Macoupin and Jersey counties. The decision to seek public input followed a brief presentation by Dorchester Village Trustees Susie Campbell […]

The Benld City Council last Monday night ratified Mayor Jim Kelly’s appointment of nine-person committee comprised of city aldermen and members of the public to make recommendations to the council regarding the development of the former site of the Benld Elementary School as a public park. Community Unit School District 7 transferred the approximately 10-acre […]