Monday, August 15

• Community comes together to celebrate the reopening of the Mount Pulaski Courthouse

• Mount Pulaski Courthouse Grand reopening - slideshow

• Elkhart dinner series returns for the fall

• Parents encouraged to include emergency preparedness in back-to-school plans
  August is School and Campus Preparedness Month in Illinois

• Upcoming events at Sugar Grove Nature Center

• News from the University of Illinois Prairie Research Institute
  Study Finds Waterfowl Hunters’ Spending Benefits Rural Areas

• Millikin Department of Theatre and Dance becomes School of Theatre and Dance

• Unique Lincoln biography donated to Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
  Three-volume biography given to presidential library by Abraham Lincoln Association

Saturday, August 13

• Student Leadership Program Positioned to Influence the Campus and Community
  “We have been given the tools to unknowingly influence the lives of others”

• HSLC spay/neuter transport secheduled for September 6th

• Williamsville celebrates Route 66 International Traveler
  Multi-Directional Sign Recognizes Top Visiting Countries Along Illinois' Route 66

• Slim Randles' Home Country
  “Sanctimonious siphons, it’s hot!”

• Illinois State Bird included in new Forever Stamp collection

• New memorial to Purple Heart recipients
  Historic Preservation Agency receives memorial in Springfield’s Oak Ridge Cemetery

• Governor Rauner signs bills to address rape kit backlog, strengthen procedures for victims of sexual assault

Friday, August 12

• As Lincoln Balloon Festival approaches, volunteers still needed for a successful event

• Colleen Jodlowski graduates from Northern Illinois University

• Small earthquake hits Southern Illinois Thursday morning

• Lincoln Community High School
  Notice of Public Hearing
  Topic: FY17 Budgets

• Lincoln State School & Colony will be topic at Historic Society August meeting

• Super Snacks for People with Diabetes
  Diabetes support group to meet August 19th

• University of Illinois offers FREE Webinar on economic development strategies in Illinois

• Illinois American Water announces 2016 Firefighter Grant Program
  Program offered to fire departments in communities served by Illinois American Water

Thursday, August 11

• Finance committee begins reviewing budget and employee raises for 2016/2017 Fiscal Year

• Logan County Board to hear and be asked to support a local 'break poverty' program

• Lincoln woman dies in Thursday afternoon crash

• County highway closures near New Holland

• 46th Annual Abraham Lincoln National Railsplitting Festival in Lincoln, September 17-18, 2016

  • New Motorcycle Show at The Mill on 66 Sept. 17th
    10th Annual Antique Auto Cruise-In Oct. 8th

• Column
  Fall Defoliators and Fall Gardening
  By John Fulton

• 2016 Logan County Fair Online Magazine

• Today's Fair coverage

  • 2016 Logan County Horse Show draws large interest

  • Open Horse Show - slideshow