The Gillespie City Council on Monday night approved $455,291 property tax levy for 2025 taxes payable in 2026 but, following a 30-minute executive session, took no...
Members of the Macoupin County Board, meeting in Carlinville Tuesday night, accepted a $6 million property tax levy, approved a spending plan for proceeds of a...
Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education on Monday night voted to approve a property tax levy request totaling $3,920,295 for 2025...
The Benld City Council has accepted the resignation of veteran City Treasurer Cindy Crites, effective Dec. 5. The action came during the council’s regular monthly meeting...
After 14 months of negotiations, the Macoupin County Board approved a new contract Thursday night with the Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)...
Members of the Gillespie City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to approve a proclamation recognizing Wade Hendricks, who recently retired from the Gillespie Police Department...
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...
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....
Getting election information in Macoupin County just got a whole lot easier. County Clerk Pete Duncan announced today that voters can now access key election updates,...
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...
