Tropical Sno opens today at 6 p.m., April 15, to start their 14th season under the ownership of Margaret and Charlie Wayman. After the area has...
The Village of Wilsonville voted last Monday, April 6, during their April business meeting to host a community clean-up day on Saturday, May 9 despite objection...
Payton Anderson was named Player of the Week last week for the American Midwest Conference after totaling three doubles and two home runs. Anderson is a...
Gas service is currently being reconnected to all occupied Benld homes affected by last Wednesday’s mine subsidence incident after some residents have been without gas for...
PV1 Shon Calvert enlisted into the Illinois Army National Guard as a Power-Generation Equipment Repairer and will be leaving for basic training in August at Ft...
Wrapping up the week in the BenGil area with pictures! Week of April 5 Do you have a picture for the Week in Pictures? Email the...
Incumbent Annetta Veres was elected as Village President of Wilsonville on Tuesday, April 7, in the 2015 Consolidated Election knocking off former president Harold Besserman Jr....
[slideshow_deploy id=’19440′] UPDATE April 10, 10:20am: Currently only three homes are without power and gas service is expected to be restored early next week. Food services will be...
Gillespie Middle School announced their leader of the month award winners for the month of March. Award winners for the month of March were Rachel Young,...
[slideshow_deploy id=’19408′] UPDATE April 9, 7:56am: Benld is providing donuts, coffee and water to area residents without power and any emergency personnel in the area around 9...
Gillespie Middle School student Kylee Hardt is this week’s Leader of the Week after being nominated for the award by social studies instructor Ms. Willmann because...
Check back throughout the evening for updated election results The BenGil unofficial results for this election are displayed below. Results will be certified at the canvass up to...
Three Gillespie Middle School students were invited to participate in the Society for Science and the Public competition after presenting their science fair project at the...
[slideshow_deploy id=’19323′] The Gillespie High School girls’ soccer team is off to a bumpy start and coach Robin Niemeyer says the weather is partially to blame...
Eighth Grade Mason Barber, Rhoni Bernhardt, Kennen Bertolis, Samuel Boedecker, Megan Bray, Jerod Brown, Lexie Bussmann, Emilie Campbell, Mason Campbell, Joey Carter, Colin Caveny, Jimmie Champman,...
Shelby Watson and Porsha Duvall, both of Gillespie, recently finished trimester III at Tri-County Beauty Academy in Litchfield and were both named to the honor roll....
Wrapping up the week in the BenGil area with pictures! Week of March 29 Do you have a picture for the Week in Pictures? Email the...
GILLESPIE – At its infancy less than three years ago in July of 2012, the owner of Fight the Fight was selling the company’s product out...
[slideshow_deploy id=’19334′] Last season, the Gillespie High School baseball team finished as regional champions. The team has the same goal this season. The Miners (4-1) have...
Throughout the month of March, the Gillespie Middle School Student Council sold paper shamrocks and raised $250 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The money raised will...
