Monday, September 18

• A beautiful weekend for family entertainment at the Annual Abraham Lincoln National Railsplitting Festival

  • Festival offers a step back in time to the 1860's lifestyle - slideshow

  • Festival includes 1860's crafts - slideshow

  • Trick riding returns to the festival - slideshow

  • Special attractions at Postville Park, VFW, and The Mill on 66 - slideshow

  • Saturday faces at the festival - slideshow

• Railsplitting Festival ends with National Splitting Contest and traditions

  • Water Boiling Contest - slideshow

  • Junior Rail Splitting Contest - slideshow

  • Re-christening of the city of Lincoln
    A moment of silence for Charlie Ott - slideshow

  • National Rail Splitting Competition - slideshow

  • Sunday faces at the festival - slideshow

• Mount Pulaski Fall Festival rich with memories

  • Friday evening features food and pageantry - slideshow

  • New royalty crowned on Friday night - slideshow

  • Saturday parade remembers two young lives - slideshow

  • Saturday parade begins with patriotism and royalty - slideshow

  • Parade includes political candidates - slideshow

  • Parade - cars, trucks, tractors and more - slideshow

  • Schools well represented in Saturday parade - slideshow

  • Disney fun reflected in parade - slideshow

  • Parade ends, but the fun doesn't stop - slideshow

Saturday, September 16

• Two Lincoln artifacts return to the soil at the Lincoln Depot

• Atlanta Ag 4-H "Planted in 4-H" and "Planted in the community" - Album

• Humane Society to provide transport to spay/neuter clinic on October 2nd

• Memorial Health System earns Quality Excellence Award from Illinois Hospital Association

• New Holland-Middletown School participates in 2017 Solar Tour
  Over 130 homes and businesses will be showing off their solar on the Illinois Solar Tour

• Rauner will begin search for new poet laureate

• Slim Randles' Home Country
  'Honorably mentioned' ain't bad a-tall

• Successfully Transition Houseplants Indoors for Winter
  By Melinda Myers

Friday, September 15

• Logan County Finance Committee proposes near balanced 2018 FY Budget to full board

• Lincoln City Council
  Agenda Packet for Monday, September 18th voting session Pdf

• Funding for Tropics sign continues to grow with donation from local McDonald's

• Lincoln Woman’s Club collecting items for “Operation Santa” for our troops

• Lincoln Church of the Nazarene adopts a new name

• Water Survey researchers tracked weather changes during the eclipse

• Millikin students, faculty to host Public Observation Nights at Requarth Observatory starting Sept. 15

• HRSA Awards $7,252,595 to Illinois Health Centers to Tackle Mental Health and Fight the Opioid Overdose Crisis

Thursday, September 14

• Hurricane Irma refugees take shelter in Lincoln

• ‘Free Hugs Guy’ to visit Lincoln College campus
  Ken E. Nwadike, Jr., Will be Excellence in Leadership Speaker September 19th

• Abe’s Million is back!
  Renovation plans of the Mount Pulaski Courthouse are underway

• Lincoln Land Concert Association opens season with David Osborne Trio

• Fundraiser for Tad Johnson to be held Saturday in Waynesville

• Memorial to Hold Free Webinar on Chemotherapy and the Brain

• New state law allows all hunters in Illinois to use crossbows during archery seasons