Saturday, August 27

• 2016 Lincoln Balloon Festival

  • Woman on the ground, Angela Reiners, asks festival goers:
    What is great about the Lincoln Balloon Fest?

    • What makes the Balloon Festival great - slideshow

  • Gap in weather lets balloonists “Glow” Friday night

    • Food and Fun at the Festival - slideshow

    • Waiting to Glow! - slideshow

    • And the Glow is a GO! - slideshow

• Memorial to Hold 12th Annual 5K Run/Walk to Benefit Kidney, Pancreas Transplant Patients

• University of Illinois Master Gardeners offer "Programs in the Garden"

• Local Athletes participate in Special Olympics Bowling tournament

• August-September Illinois FSA Newsletter

• Slim Randles' Home Country
  Useful trivia in the check-out line

Friday, August 26

• 2016 Lincoln Balloon Festival

  • Balloons once again grace the skies over Lincoln

    • Media Night - Reiners takes flight - slideshow

  • Balloonfest Community Kick-off returns to Symphony of Lincoln - slideshow

• Illinois American Water’s Lincoln District to invest approximately $500,000 for Water Main Installation
  Work to begin next week

• Senator Kirk Announces Staff Mobile Office Hours in Lincoln

• Governor Rauner signs bill to give former offenders a brighter future

• Illinois Supreme Court says "no" to redistricting referendum
  Rauner reaction

Thursday, August 25

• Bridge Repair Project on County Highway 9
  Primm Road south of Lincoln to be closed through November

• Memorial Home Services Hospice Seeks Volunteers
  Volunteers needed throughout area including Logan County

• Illinois Department of Insurance Releases Health Care Rate Filings for 2017
  Constraints of the Affordable Care Act force families to pay more as insurance companies raise rates

• Column
  More biting insects, apple development and charcoal-like fungus on apples
  By John Fulton

• Logan County FSA Updates
  The perfect time to make changes

Wednesday, August 24

• Students summer Shakespeare performance in Atlanta notable

  • 2016 Shakespeare Company performance - Album

• Volunteers Make ALMH Market a Success This Summer

• Kelly Miller Circus comes to Lincoln
  Tickets go on sale September 9th

• Rauner signs Firearms Trafficking Bill to help protect communities from gun violence

• ALPLM acquires papers of ‘Spoon River’ poet
  Lincoln Presidential Library expands collection related to Illinois poets with papers of Edgar Lee Masters