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Lincoln Daily News.com
601 Keokuk St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
TEL: (217) 732-7443
FAX: (217) 732-9630
Lincoln Daily News publishes daily news about the Lincoln/Logan County area on
the Internet at www.lincolndailynews.com.
(We are not a print publication.) All subscriptions are free!
Content:
The articles published in
Lincoln Daily News are the result of
research, interviews and news releases submitted. Any opinions expressed are those of
the writers.
Our staff:
In the office
Managing editor: Jan Youngquist
ldneditor@lincolndailynews.com
Technician,
writer:
Gina
Sennett
gsldn@lincolndailynews.com
Text processing:
Mary Krallmann
Advertising sales and public relations:
Lucky Eichner:
ads@lincolndailynews.com
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For employment information, contact Lincoln Daily News at their
offices.
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Our mission:
The mission of Lincoln Daily News is to tell the stories of Logan County in a contemporaneous manner, with lively writing and a predilection for simple truth fairly told.
Lincoln Daily News seeks a relationship with the good people of Logan County that is honest,
neighborly and never patronizing.
Lincoln Daily News presents news within a full context that contributes to understanding.
Lincoln Daily News is more interested in the marketplace of ideas than the competition of personalities. Without shrinking from the bold delivery of unvarnished fact,
Lincoln Daily News operates from the premise that God's creatures deserve the presumption of right motive.
Lincoln Daily News eschews malice and cynicism; it approaches every person with dignity and every subject with equanimity. In short,
Lincoln Daily News informs, stimulates and entertains.
Corrections:
Please contact us by phone, fax, mail or e-mail with any
information about mistakes, typos or erroneous information.
If the error is in an item which is still in the paper, we will
correct it online immediately.
Our services:
Lincoln Daily News provides daily news, sports, features and commentary on Lincoln, Logan
County and the surrounding area.
To promote local businesses, we offer display advertisements at very
reasonable rates, and links to business websites. Call (217)
732-7443 or e-mail ads@lincolndailynews.com.
"Happy ads" are a special feature to enable our readers to celebrate birthdays, graduations,
anniversaries and other good news.
Call us for details.
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Letters to the Editor |
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The
Lincoln Daily News publishes letters to the editor as
they are received.
The letters are not edited in content and do not
necessarily reflect
the views of Lincoln Daily News.
Lincoln Daily News requests that writers responding to
controversial issues address the issue and refrain from
personal attacks. Thank you!
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Period-authentic,
re-created music used in video |
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To the
editor:
We would like to take this opportunity
to publicly thank the Main Street Lincoln committee for choosing The
Prairie Aires to represent the traditional music of the 1800s in the
video "From Surveyor to President, A. Lincoln in Logan County." Our
music was also played at the video premiere reception held on
Saturday, Jan. 11, 2003.
The video background music was played
on period instruments, and because we researched the songs,
know much of it would have been recognized by Mr. Lincoln.
We are also looking forward to helping
celebrate the city of Lincoln's 150th anniversary in 2003.
The Prairie Aires’ CDs and cassettes
are available to people who enjoy traditional music of the 1800s, by
calling MeLane Coulter at (217) 445-2571 or visiting the New Salem
Museum Store or The Neverending Story in Havana, Ill.
Sincerely,
The Prairie Aires
Lynette Belcher, MeLane Coulter, Miriam
Greene and Janet Schoonover.
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. Please send your letters by e-mail to ldneditor@lincolndailynews.com
or by U.S. postal mail to:
Letters to the Editor
Lincoln Daily News
601 Keokuk St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
Letters must include the writer’s name,
telephone number, mailing address and/or e-mail address (we will not publish
address or phone number information).
Lincoln Daily News reserves the right to edit letters to reduce their size or to correct obvious errors.
Lincoln Daily News reserves the right to reject any letter for any
reason. Lincoln Daily News will publish as many
acceptable letters as space allows.
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Stolen bike |
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To the editor:
Last Friday, on Jan. 10, 2003, my son
was on his way to work and had planned to ride his bike since his
truck is not running. But when he got out to the garage he noticed
it was gone.
We have yet to report this to the
police as this is the third time it has been taken. The garage is
near an alley behind the house at 1012 Clinton St. This bike is a
Roadmaster with one of the brakes not in working order and the seat
torn.
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If the person who reads this is the
person who took my son's bike, I ask that you return it and the
police will not be called. We will give you two weeks and we forgive
you. By the end of two weeks, if it is not returned, then the police
will be called upon. Of all the things that are in our garage to
take, why my son's bike?
Debbi G. Thompson
Lincoln
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Tobacco sales researched; youth say local businesses show they care |
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To the editor:
On Dec. 10, 2002,
high school students from the REALITY Illinois Teen Coalition of
Logan County participated in a project, Operation Storefront, where
we visited 18 tobacco vendors in Lincoln to learn about tobacco
advertising in Logan County. We would like to thank the stores that
participated and helped us learn about tobacco advertising. Thanks
to Thornton's, Wal-Mart, Eagle Discount Foods, Ayerco, Clark,
Kroger, Discount Tobacco, Qik-n-EZ, Walgreens, Fifth Street Food
Market, Quick Way Foods, Green Oil, Apollo Mart, IGA, CVS, Bruns
Service Center and Casey's General Store.
In the three years that this
project has been done, we have seen less and less tobacco advertising in the
Logan County businesses. We see more and more anti-tobacco warnings in the
stores. Thank you. We are pleased to see that most stores have cigarettes behind
the counter. But how about putting chewing tobacco and cigars behind the counter
also?
[to top of second column in this letter]
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We appreciate all the businesses
that are trying to prevent youth access to tobacco. Tobacco companies are
spending $190 every second to get youth to smoke! Logan County businesses care
about us!
REALITY
Illinois Teen Coalition of Logan County
(Hartsburg-Emden High School,
Lincoln Community High School, Mount Pulaski High School)
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