The annual candy sale fundraiser that benefits Ben-Gil Elementary is slated to begin on Wednesday, January 21 with students in kindergarten through fifth grade selling assorted...
Gwaine Crawford, owner of Aunt Phyllis Scamps & Champs, is being sued after a Mastiff weighing over 100 pounds leaned on a customer back in October...
Wrapping up the week in the BenGil area with pictures! Week of January 11 Do you have a picture for the Week in Pictures? Email the...
Gillespie Mayor John Hicks told the city council that the City of Gillespie are the new owners of the old United Community Bank (UCB) building that...
Students, parents, and teachers weigh in on school climate and learning conditions CUSD #7 will join the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) in the third...
Outcome: Gillespie 71, Litchfield 46
Council discusses increases in lot rentals Frank Barrett, chairman of Gillespie Lake, proposed to create 45 new lake lots at Gillespie Lake during the city’s regular...
The Macoupin County Sheriff’s Office investigations is seeking information to help solve the homicide that occurred in Woodburn on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2015. The...
The HSHS St. Francis Hospital Auxiliary volunteers held their general meeting in December and enjoyed lunch served by the Hospital’s Food and Nutrition Department. The Back...
The Mt. Olive Wrestling Wildcats finished in second place with 178 team points behind Whtifield with 239.5 in Mt. Olive’s 40th Wrestling Invitational Tournament. Mt. Olive...
Authorities say the suspected child abuse investigation is going very well after Ryder Vercoglio, a 3-year-old of Gillespie, suffered deadly injuries from alleged child abuse on...
The Gillespie girls’ basketball team started 2015 with rough start as the Lady Miners dropped two games last week and another on Monday to kick off...
More than 200 new laws rolled out on January 1, 2015, like adding cyber-bullying to the school code and mandating electronic cigarettes to be sold behind...
Wrapping up the week in the BenGil area with pictures! Week of January 4 Do you have a picture for the Week in Pictures? Email the...
The 40th scheduled Mt. Olive Invitational Wrestling Tournament will be held on Saturday, January 10, 2015 with wrestling scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. This year’s...
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Illinois State Police District 18 alerts motorists and citizens to be aware of the winter weather advisory looming ahead. Although a large amount of snow may...
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The Gillespie girls’ basketball team snagged fourth place in the Carlinville Holiday Tournament last week after falling to the Nokomis Redskins in the fourth and final...
The 3-year-old Gillespie child that was critically injured in Saturday’s possible child abuse situation has passed. Family members of Ryder reported that he died early Monday...
