The 4H 4×4 Club toured the Illinois Coal Museum on Thursday, March 5 learning how coal mining has played a role in our communities. The children...
Contributed content. At the Macoupin County Board’s General Administrative Committee meeting, Macoupin ambulance providers, Gillespie-Benld Area Ambulance Service, Inc. and Prairieland Ambulance Service, proposed a county-wide...
Approximately 100 students and parents attended Gillespie Middle School’s 5th annual trivia night on Friday, February 28. Principal Jill Rosentreter called the event a “huge success”....
Knights of Columbus members Terry Crites and Bill Tallman visited Gillespie Middle School on Monday, March 2 and presented the life skills class and teacher, Mrs....
Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education voted Monday night to seek bids for nearly $500,000 in improvements to the high school...
UPDATE: The Heritage Food Festival has been postponed to Saturday, June 27 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Grow Gillespie, an organization comprised of local volunteers, will...
Contributed content. LLCC to accept 90 additional nursing students per year; renovate building for new nursing center SPRINGFIELD – Officials of Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC)...
Members of the Benld City Council on Monday night amended the city’s nuisance property ordinance to strengthen enforcement provisions, approved $4,470 in repairs to a city...
The Coal Country Chamber of Commerce welcomed the new owners of FEMA’s in downtown Benld with a Ribbon Cutting. Pictured from left to right are: Ron...
The HSHS St. Francis Hospital Auxiliary offers three scholarship awards to students whose principal residences are in Montgomery or Macoupin counties. The scholarships are awarded to...
A Bunker Hill woman died on Sunday after she struck a skid steer head-on on Illinois Route 159 south of Bunker Hill, according to Illinois State...
SPRINGFIELD – Lincoln Land Community College is seeking 20 additional students for its Open Door Workforce Equity Initiative program, which provides free career training in highly...
Members of the Gillespie City Council on Monday night heard concerns from residents about the possibility of a half-way house opening within a residential neighborhood but...
Sophia Claire Reinhardt was welcomed into the world on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, at 10:46 p.m. by her parents, Mike and Kelcie Reinhardt, and big sister, Delanie...
The Highball Chapter of Ducks Unlimited is gearing up for its annual dinner auction on March 14 at the Crystal Ballroom in Staunton, Illinois. Numerous local...
The winners at the “For the Love of Education” trivia night on February 1 were friends and family of long-time Partnership supporters, Ken and Judy Cordum....
The Macoupin County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the Kern County California District Attorney’s Office on Thursday, February 6 around 7:15 p.m. in reference to a...
A two-vehicle accident that happened around 3:25 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4 claimed the life a 19-year-old Jerseyville teen, Illinois State Police District 18 announced late...
LICHFIELD – February is National Heart Month and HSHS St. Francis Hospital and the Prairie Heart Institute of Illinois will co-host a special heart month program on...
Jameson David Griffel was welcomed with love by proud parents Jonathan and Kristin (Davidson) Griffel. He arrived at 2:48 a.m. on Monday, December 30, 2019, at...
