Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education on Monday night voted unanimously to accept the district’s annual financial report, chose an insurance...
Members of the Benld City Council on Monday night accepted an annual audit completed by Scheffel-Boyle Certified Public Accountants, Alton, approved a new building permit form...
Macoupin County Board members on Tuesday night agreed to enter into a $190,000 contract with Hampton, Lenzini & Renwick, Inc. Springfield, to engineer and design Phase...
Blacksmiths from throughout Illinois will gather at the Macoupin County Historical Society’s blacksmith shop from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Nov. 1, for the Illinois Valley...
Members of the Gillespie City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to implement a one percent Public Safety sales tax on retail goods sold in Gillespie....
Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education on Monday night voted to approve an $19 million budget for fiscal 2026, agreed to...
Members of the Benld City Council voted on Monday night to approve more than $15,000 of work the Italian Club of Benld plans to do at Benld’s...
A month after approving an austere budget for fiscal 2026, the focus remained on government finances during the Macoupin County Board’s regular monthly meeting Tuesday night....
Gillespie aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to make a first payment of $362,817.33 to Stutz Excavating, Alton, for the recently started Steetscape project. Stutz is the...
Once infamous for bootlegging during Prohibition, the City of Benld will soon have a legal whisky distilling operation. City Council members voted unanimously last Monday night...
Three Macoupin County law enforcement officers have been charged with aggravated battery in a public place after allegedly beating a Staunton resident over the weekend at...
Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education approved on second reading a policy to govern parent-funded sports protocols. In other action Monday...
Members of the Macoupin County Board on Tuesday night voted unanimously to approve a county budget for fiscal 2025-26 authorizing expenditures of $28.2 million. The budget...
With school resuming this week, the Gillespie City Council on Monday night narrowly approved an ordinance to restrict parking on the west side of LJ Avenue,...
Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to collaborate with the City of Gillespie in filing an application...
The Benld City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to approve an appropriations ordinance governing municipal spending for the current fiscal year, approved the sale of...
The Gillespie City Council voted Monday night to approve a new ordinance to govern the burning of yard waste, and inked a long-awaited agreement to continue...
A public comment from the CEO of the Gillespie-Benld Area Ambulance Service led to a larger discussion during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Macoupin County Board...
The Public Access of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office has determined the Macoupin County Board technically violated the state’s Open Meetings Act on March 26 when...
Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education on Monday night voted to adopt an amended budget for the fiscal year that ended...
