• Don Green appointed LCU transitional president

• Zion Lutheran School students' history projects center of interesting open house

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• Limited space available for Russel Allen Garden Day

• City of Mount Pulaski announces pickup dates for landscape waste

• ALMH urges Logan County residents to be screened for colorectal cancer in March

• Memorial Medical Center accepting applications for free nursing camp for students

• Library notes

• City updates ongoing projects:
  Fifth Street Road, city street projects and the APEX

• Now is the time to be ready for severe weather
  Weather service testing tornado warning system Tuesday at 10 a.m.

• Wolverines take championship at WLB round robin

• Toppers take regional for the first time since 1999

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• Habitat for Humanity to host at Culver's tonight

• Lincoln/Logan County Development Partnership board changes

• New Holland-Middletown goes Chrome!

• Oasis Lunch & Learn March 18
  Area Agency on Aging for Lincolnland announces program for family caregivers

• Attorney Jim Grimaldi to hold free Q&A session at Pistol Prep Academy
  Will answer questions on new Illinois concealed carry law

• Illinois State Police prepare to issue first round of approved concealed carry licenses

• Snow expected overnight Saturday into Sunday afternoon; Storm to bring icier conditions to the south  

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• Weekend forecast opens Logan County Emergency Operations Center

• IDOT Weather Crews Prepared Statewide to Deploy for Winter Storm Titan
  Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain to Create Slick Roads and Bridges Starting Saturday Night

• “Well, I sure didn’t see that coming.  I’m willing to bet, neither did Springfield Lanphier."
  Railers knock out Lanphier 57-34
  By Jeff Benjamin

  • Album 1  |  Album 2
    By Debbie Olden

• Hilltoppers - 2014 Boys Regional Champions in a "Barnburner", 73-65

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• World's Largest Covered Wagon soon to be repaired

• Jared Coers retires from the U. S. Navy

• Home Sweet Home Ministries Partners with Annual $1 Million Giveaway To Fight Hunger

• LCU Women Earn Regional Basketball Honors

• Slim Randles' Home Country
  A dog's day out 

• Largest winter storm of the season expected to begin Saturday night

  • Warned area graph

  • Graphs of times and areas

• Tougher Tourism Bureau seeks stronger identity
  Two fund requests denied

• George and Abe are special guests at Chamber Business After Hours -- album

• Heartland Community College appoints Becky Ropp as newest trustee

• Mayfield's Mutterings
  Illini Follow the Script
  By Jeff Mayfield

• Competition offers aid to Illinois history scholars
  Deadline to apply for prestigious King V. Hostick scholarship is March 15

• Scam alert: Fake funeral notice can be deadly — for your computer

• Lincoln Park District Notes

• U of I News
  Extension website offers help as ACA deadline approaches

Feb. 27

• New county FOP contract passes with ease

• City hears report on Unified Organizations Committee

• Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital Lifting Visitor Flu Restrictions

• Five Lincoln High School athletes announce their college choices

• Lincoln College Jazz Band performs Saturday ahead of Walt Disney World trip

• Another winter storm with all the fixings anticipated Sunday

• Brittany Merold joins Hometown Realty

• Cory Hull is the Illini Central Student of the Month

• Will your Social Security check be in the mail come 2015?

• From the Better Business Bureau
  Military Personnel Need to Beware of Fraudulent Website

• Scam alert: Random text message? No real prize is waiting for you

• March events at Sugar Grove Nature Center

Feb. 26

• Are you smarter than a 4-H'er? Trivia day offers some big challenges at the Extension office

  • Album 1  |  Album 2

• A perfect winter's evening: pizza and beer, and fellowship with a good cause

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• Voter registration and grace period registration and voting for the March 18 general election

• Zion Lutheran School to host open house Thursday evening

• LCHS offers official information on Friday night Railer tickets

• Mardi Gras Chocolate Fiesta at St. John United Church on Tuesday

• Scam alert: 'One-ring' cellphone scam can ding your wallet

• Millions of MSNs are undeliverable: Are you getting yours?

• Memorial Medical Center Foundation awards more than $435,000 in health grants

• IEMA announces UIUC first Illinois university to attain 'Ready to Respond Campus' designation