The combination of good pitching, timely hitting and a couple breaks is a standard recipe for winning baseball games. Gillespie followed it to a tee in...
SAFE SITTER® CLASSES TO TRAIN BABYSITTERS Community Memorial Hospital will offer Safe Sitter® classes for girls and boys age 11 to 13 on October 10, 2011...
A crowd of over 100 visitors plus over 750 students were all smiles when school board members and elected officials broke ground on the new 26...
Who? Drew Ford and Gillespie Post Prom are sponsoring the Ford Drive One 4UR School. When? Saturday, September 24. Time? 8a.m. to 3 p.m. Where? The...
George J. “Dugie” Dugan of Mt. Clare, IL died Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 5:35 am at his residence. Dugie was born October 20, 1925, in...
The Middle School Indians head to the semi-finals in their regional after Tuesday nights victory over Madison. The Indians led the game ever since the first...
Hollandy III By: Sarah Aarssen “It’s not all Holland, it’s not all Illinois, it’s just a little Holland-y” This next little ditty about the Dutch culture...
In old business, the City of Benld received a bill from the City of Gillespie for the amount of $1,600 for repair of their street when...
After 90 minutes in executive session, the council returned for open action. With a motion made by the police commissioner, the council voted to hire two...
About the only thing more the Gillespie Miner football team could have wanted out of its game against Staunton was a win. The Miners led the...
Barbara Ann Hedden of Gillespie, IL died Carlinville Area Hospital, Carlinville, IL on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 2:11 am. Barbara was born on September 20,...
BUNKER HILL, IL- Macoupin County Board Chairman Andy Manar today announced his candidacy for State Senate in Illinois’ 48th Legislative District. This morning Manar begins a...
The Macoupin County 9/11 Memorial Service of “One Nation Under God” will take place on Sunday, September 11th at 8:00 a.m. The Macoupin County 9/11 Memorial...
Labor Day Celebration at Zion Lutheran in Staunton On Friday, September 2 the students of Zion Early Childhood Education Center got an early start to Labor Day....
Community Memorial Hospital is hosting “Lunch with the Doc” on Thursday September 22, 2011 beginning at 10:45am. Dr. Tony DeMartini an Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiovascular...
The death of an 81-year-old Mount Clare woman who was found dead Saturday evening in a cornfield near her home is being investigated by Illinois State...
30 members from the 1976 undefeated football team returned. It was the nation’s Bicentennial Year, Jimmy Carter was President and in Gillespie the “Rock-N-Roll” Miners were...
The Gillespie Area Caring Center has received a $291 challenge grant from the Alan Shawn Feinstein Foundation The grant is a result of the Caring CenterÕs...
Eleven runs in the first two innings would make anyone think the game is over, but anyone who stuck around to watch the Indians take on...
Rhymes Times Five Another way to say “Mr. Stiller, Ms. Close confine the number of American League starters” would be “Ben, Glenn pen ten men.” Can...
