Recent features

• Winter play, 'The Boys Next Door,' at Lincoln Community High School

• Lincoln Community Theatre gearing up for summer productions

• Artists sought for Arts-in-Education Residency Program (Jan. 18 application deadline)

• Reconstruction of Lincoln's New Salem and construction of U of I Memorial Stadium featured in history journal

Out and About articles

• Illinois Nature Preserves Commission approves nature preserve, land and water reserve designations

• Southern Illinois hosts indoor auto races

• Mountain lions and trumpeter swans are topics of two seminars at Bald Eagle Appreciation Days

• Woodcarving show

• Feathered escapees back in protective custody
  Pheasant hunting levels restored

• Bald eagles soar friendly skies of Illinois
  Birds already spotted, will remain in area through February

• Keokuk Bald Eagle Appreciation Days

• Herb Day 2005 scheduled for Jan. 29