May 29

• Ethan Graue heads to New York City to intern with Time Magazine

• ME Realty celebrates the opening of their newly remolded offices

  • Album 1 | Album 2 | Album 3
    Album 4

• Tourism awards $10,000 to Art & Balloon Festival and Up in Smoke BBQ competition

• Frontier Mutual Insurance Company recognized as Grinnell Mutual top mutual company

• Logan County Relay for Life announces schedule of events

• Pistol Prep holds first class at new Atlanta shooting range

• ALMH Offers Diabetic Class

• Zion Lutheran School Eighth-grade graduation photos and awards

• Illini Central High School Senior pictures

  • Album 1 | Album 2 | Album 3
    Album 4

  • Album 5 | Album 6 | Album 7
    Album 8

• Column
  Leaf problems
  By John Fulton

• How to avoid fumbling the football in the red zone of retirement
  The 6 documents you need for your estate plan playbook

May 28

• Monday night fire destroys local business

• Mount Pulaski celebrates Memorial Day with two special events

• Album 1 | Album 2 | Album 3

• Album 4 | Album 5 | Album 6

• Stacy's customers enjoy 'Appreciation Day' - album

• Lincoln Mission Mart Opens New Location and Launches New Programs

• Czech’s to Film Rt. 66 Apple Pie Eating Contest

• Fruitful Container Gardens
  By Melinda Myers

• Rocket Girls Camp Ready to Launch at Heartland Community College

• IDNR: Stay safe by leaving baby birds and other wildlife alone
  It is against the law to keep wildlife as pets

May 27

• Lincoln Southern Baptist Church "Boat Float" honors fallen soldiers

  • Lincoln Southern Baptist Church "Boat Float" honors fallen soldiers - album

• Mount Pulaski honors fallen soldiers through flag displays

  • Mount Pulaski honors fallen soldiers through flag displays - album

• Memorial Day in Atlanta, a great day of remembrance

  • Atlanta Methodist Men host Memorial Day Breakfast - album

  • Community honors it's hero's with flag displays - album

  • Community remembers fallen soldiers and honors its Veterans

    • Album 1 | Album 2  |  Album 3 | Album 4

  • Community children place flowers on the graves of soldiers -- album

  • Atlanta holds re-dedication for its historic library

    • Album 1 | Album 2

• First ‘Certificate of Appropriateness’ for building modification issued by LHPC
  Tartar to install fan for Vintage Fare

• From the office of the Logan County Clerk
  Notice of Special Search Committee meeting

• West Lincoln-Broadwell Elementary School 8th Grade Graduation Awards

• Lincoln College to host girls basketball camp

• Scam Alert!
  Medical Alert scam returns, Government imposter scam threatens arrest

• Austin-Healeys take center stage at car show
  David Davis Mansion hosts 23rd British Car Festival on June 1

May 26 - Memorial Day Holiday
 

May 24

• SPECIAL FEATURE
  A Memorial Day memory of American soldiers’ kindness to a little girl
  By Dr. Mark DePue, Director of Oral History
  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

• Fly the United States Flag at half-staff on Monday from Sunrise Until Noon for Memorial Day

• Logan County Board sets elected salaries, approves Deer Creek bridge replacement, and recognizes Railer Basketball Team

• County announces funding award for Deer Creek Bridge

• Phase one of downtown Lincoln streetscape to begin

• Memorial Home Services Hospice seeks volunteers

• IDOA meat and poultry inspectors discover unsanitary conditions in Illinois food plant
  Findings result in revocation of the company’s license

• Red Cross Provides Tips for a Safe Memorial Day

• Drone manufacturers and UAV authorities are scheduled at the Precision Aerial Ag Show

• David Davis Mansion hosts 18th Garden Festival tour of Bloomington-Normal gardens June 20-21

• Governor Quinn announces free admission for troops and their families at Lincoln Presidential Museum this summer
  Museum taking part in Blue Star Museums Program Memorial Day through Labor Day

• Outdoors with Babe Winkelman
  The best turkey decoy is a turkey

May 23

• County: More consultant work needed before it approves Unified Organization

• County fills vacant board seat
  David Blankenship approved for Logan County District 1 representation

• National EMS Week observed
  Logan County's Paramedic Association recognized

  • ACEP celebrates 40 years of National EMS Week May 18-24 with the theme "EMS: Dedicated. For Life."

• Village of Atlanta Memorial Day observance schedule

• Zion Lutheran School welcomes two new teachers starting this fall

• Lincoln High School Building and Trades to host open house May 29
  This year's project, a remodeled home in Mayfair

• Logan County Board Minutes

• Board of the Whole (Workshop) session

  • Adjourned (Regular) Board

  • Logan County Joint Solid Waste Agency

  • Otter pups on exhibit at Miller Park Zoo

• Increase in soil moisture due to recent rains

• IDOT, ISP, Local Law Enforcement encourage all motorists to “Click It or Ticket” to help avoid fatal vehicle crashes
  Memorial Day enforcement effort to crack down on unbuckled and drunk drivers

• IDOT suspends non-emergency road construction to improve traffic flow during Memorial Day Weekend
  Agency details lane closures to aid motorists’ travel plans – includes information for LOGAN Co.

May 22

• Lincoln Theater 4 announces expansion project

• Lanterman announces expansion of theater - album

• Madigan launches multi-county crackdown on home repair scams
  Pending lawsuits include one Logan County business

• Sablotny receives Chuck Laughery Music Camp Scholarship

• 2014 Hartsburg-Emden student awards and scholarships

• Sanders Named ALMH Employee of the Month

• Hampton Inn and Holiday Inn Express of Lincoln both awarded 2014 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
  Recognized as Top Performing hotels as reviewed by Traveller’s on the world’s largest travel site

• Lincoln Railer Kids Soccer program to hold two camps this summer

• Logan County Board Minutes

  • Animal Control

  • Finance

  • Insurance and Legislative

• COLUMN
  Ticks return for a new feeding season
  By John Fulton

• The Civil War ends, but life isn’t easy for soldiers
  Final stage of Lincoln Presidential Library’s ‘Boys in Blue’ exhibit opens May 23, looks at soldiers’ lives after the war