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 […]