Friday, July 25

• Tourism Bureau announces exciting changes for the 2015 event line-up

• Don't lose your marbles, they might be valuable

  • Album

• Chamber members enjoy Business After Hours at By the Bean

  • Album 1 | Album 2

• Mount Pulaski CUD Parent Information Night schedule announced

• St. John’s Lutheran to install Pastor Goodwin

• Relay for Life of Logan County

  • “Cookin’ Up A Cure For Cancer” schedule for July 25 and 26

  • Relay for Life co-chairs Nicole Bottrell and Nancy Reese
    Getting by with a little help from friends and family

  • Local teens helping others
    Crawford leads peers into Relay for Life

• Eye-opening facts about aging eyes and vision problems

• IDNR announces changes for 2014-2015 deer hunting seasons
  Twenty additional counties removed from late-winter season: permits reduced for some counties

• FSA News Bulletin
  USDA Disaster Assistance for 2012 Frost or Freeze Fruit Crop Losses Announced

Thursday, July 24

• Tourism Update: A new board president, a new interim director, a new board member, a new logo, a commitment to UOC

• Geriets says his “good-byes” to the city of Lincoln

• Mount Pulaski Honors One of Its Long-time Volunteer Citizens

  • Album 1 | Album 2

• Local students take on another project at the Lincoln Depot - album

• Illinois American Water Sponsors Facebook Photo Contest
  Lincoln Community Gardens needs your votes to win!

• Chamber hosts downtown luncheon to give Festival details

• School baseball tryouts and practices begin August 4

  • CCS/NHM/ZLS/ZionMP

  • West Lincoln-Broadwell

• Column
  Sweat Bees and Syrphid Flies, Rust on Hollyhocks, and That sticky mess under trees
  By John Fulton

Wednesday, July 23

• UOC vote passes in city, but not unanimously

• Patriot Guard escort veteran McCray home

  • Album

• City of Lincoln

  • Building and Safety Department Development Activity report as of June 30, 2014

  • Building and Safety Department fiscal 2013-14 report

• Chamber to host volunteer recruitment party Saturday

• Zion Luther to host Community Open House August 5
  Last days for school registration Aug. 6 & 7

• Free Concussion Baseline Testing ends July 31

• Governor Quinn acts to block disposal of PCB waste at Clinton Landfill
  Directs IEPA to protect drinking water for 15 county area

• Soil Moisture High in Northern and East-Central Illinois

Tuesday, July 22

• City hears update from Marketing Strategies

• County welcomes Judge Bill Workman
  Safety Complex to get new roof, HVAC, and some lighting

• Cow in the Corn comes to Lincoln

  • Slideshow part one

  • Slideshow part two

  • Slideshow part three

• Hundreds flock to this year's Family Fun Day - slideshow

• Christian Village residents have onsite option for wound care

• Mount Pulaski Community Band to perform Wednesday evening

• Boom! Volcano and Illinois statehood
  Author to describe amazing impact of Tambora eruption July 23 at Old State Capitol

Monday, July 21

• Lebegue and Miller review proposed changes to city code
  Realtors continue to express concerns

• Main Street Lincoln executive director resigns

• Manufacturing Training Available to Help Fill Local Job Openings

• UOC nominating committee begins work

• Atlanta Library to Host Rt. 66 Authors

• Logan County Fair - July 27 - August 3

  • 2014 Little Miss and Miss Logan County Fair contestants

• This teachers rocks!
  LCHS teacher Sally Aukamp attends Illinois Teachers Workshop

• July School Tax report

Saturday, July 19

• CONSUMER ALERT - local recall
  Peoria company recalls uninspected food product

• ICOPS make pit stop in Lincoln

  • Slideshow

• Kids meet the strangest creatures at the Lincoln Public Library
  Paws to Read program brings live wonders

  • Album 1 | Album 2

• Chamber and Lincoln Elk’s Veterans Committee Partner to offer Logan County Veterans Free Balloon Rides and Festival Admission Passes

• Logan County Animal Control offers reduced fees for the adoption of cats through August 30

• The Cellular Connection in Lincoln to host second annual backpack giveaway

• Heartland to host International Culture Night July 24

• Slim Randles' Home Country
  Retirement isn’t for sissies

Friday, July 18

• County votes not to support Unified Organizations
  Weighted voting stumbling block

• City of Lincoln prepares to vote on UOC participation

• Unified Organization Committee presentation (Pdf)

• Chamber Launches 7th Leadership Academy

• ALMH receives national recognition for its support of Perioperative Nursing Certification

• GRAINLAND Cooperative and Minier Cooperative Grain Company
  Merges grain elevators in Armington, Emden, El Paso, Eureka, Minier, and Secor

• U of I News:
  Extension offers Master Naturalists volunteer training

• Logan County Board Minutes

  • Minutes for May Workshop

  • May Regular (adjourned voting) Session Workshop

• Powerful musical, tragic war
  Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum presents ‘Civil War’ in Union Square Park July 24-27