The Gillespie High School volleyball team added two more wins and one loss to their record this season last week after defeating Litchfield and Cahokia in...
A house trailer that caught on fire last Friday in Wilsonville suffered heavy damage after firefighters from both Benld and Gillespie responded. Two stations and nearly...
The Gillespie High School football team drops to 2-1 on the season after a 12-35 loss on the road last Friday evening in Pana. Sloppy field...
Nearly two dozen former Gillespie/Mt. Olive soccer players faced off in a friendly scrimmage this past weekend during the annual alumni soccer game held at Gillespie’s...
Liberty King was chosen as Gillespie Middle School’s leader of the week for the week of September 8 after her language arts teacher complimented her on...
Over 20,000 people are expected to attend the Macoupin County Historical Society’s Fall Festival that will be held 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Saturday...
Wrapping up the week in the BenGil area with pictures! Week of September 6 Do you have a picture for the Week in Pictures? Email the photo...
One person was arrested on Thursday, September 3 after the Illinois State Police drug task force and the Gillespie Police Department received information that meth manufacturing...
The Gillespie High School football team traveled to Litchfield High School last week after a solid week one performance over Vandalia. Despite being tied after three...
Dr. D. Ross and Mrs. Rosemary Billiter have presented a second gift of $25,000 to The Partnership for Educational Excellence. This time the funds are to...
A male bicyclist was taken to Memorial Medical Center in Springfield by Hillsboro Ambulance after he rode into the path of a tractor trailer on Illinois...
A 52-year-old man from Moro, Illinois has been arrested and charged for home invasion and theft after he broke into a Bunker Hill residence on Wednesday,...
Preston Kaylor was announced as Gillespie Middle School’s leader of the week for last week, the first leader of the week for the 2015-2016 school year....
It is rare for a first-time author to have a manuscript chosen by the first publisher he contacts. Macoupin County novelist Ed Traylor accomplished both, and...
Wrapping up the week in the BenGil area with pictures! Week of August 30 Do you have a picture for the Week in Pictures? Email the photo...
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) High School Mentoring program kicks off the school year. BBBS would like to welcome Jami Koniak back to another great year....
[slideshow_deploy id=’21258′] The Gillespie High School football team opened the 2015 season seeking their first victory since beating Carmi in November of 2013 in the second...
A female of Gillespie and a male of Royal Lakes were both transported to area hospitals last Friday evening around 6 p.m. after a car crash...
The St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Benld will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in April 2016. Though an exact date for commemorating this milestone has not...
Shelby Watson and Tabitha Pratt, both of Gillespie, recently finished trimester II at Tri-County Beauty Academy in Litchfield and were both named to the honor roll....
