Tuesday, September 19

• Lincoln Community High School auditorium stage named for Dan “Mac” McLaughlin

• Illinois EMA Awards $500,000 in Grants to 32 County Emergency Management Agencies
  Logan County EMA awarded $12,050

• Lincoln Police Department monthly report for August, 2017 Pdf

• Military convoy passes through Logan County on Route 66 cross country

• MVPA "racks and stacks" military vehicles at Sunday stop in Atlanta - slideshow

• Visitors enjoy a closer look at MVPS Convoy vehicles - slideshow

• Regional Fresh Food Council to Host Local Food Summit

• 2017 annual Illinois governor’s ride to travel Route 66 from Chicagoland to Springfield on Sept. 23
  Will come through downtown Lincoln with stop planned at the Mill on 66

• Rauner broadens access to child care assistance program

• Grant biographer to speak at ALPLM
  Historian Ronald White visits Lincoln Presidential Library on Sept. 21 to discuss ‘American Ulysses’

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