Thursday headlines:

• Council OKs animal-control contract with county

• Sixth-graders learn what it’s like to grow old

• Is it Illinois FIRST or friends of the governor first?
  By Mike Fak

• LCHS seniors receive awards

• At LCCS
  Special honors for baccalaureate grads

• Memorial observance planned for Sunday at New Holland

• High school baseball:
  Lincoln varsity baseball vs. East Peoria

Other LDN headlines from the past week:

• Main Street receives awards:
  Lincoln, a community that’s improving and celebrating it

• Scully Park restoration

• Sew Many Friends

• Grapes and Grounds

• Lincoln Junior High graduates 117

• New business brings life to downtown and cutting-edge technology to Lincoln

• Lincoln statue proposal brings crowd to council meeting

• At first meeting, Logan County Arts Association refines constitution

• What impact will the new Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield have on Lincoln?

• ‘Crown jewel’ found in Lincoln — Lincoln’s well at Postville

• Logan County historical landmarks

• Senate Week in Review