April 12

• City briefs
  Sewer and tap fees and new commercial property development addressed

• Weather highlights from the first week of April

• IDOT gives motorists a break during Easter weekend, offers motorists tips to conserve fuel

April 11

April 8

• Motorists urged to use caution as highway construction season kicks off
  6,700 work-zone crashes a year
  Photo enforcement vans to hit the highways soon

• First lady Patti Blagojevich celebrates grand opening of first Y-ME Illinois Wig and Prosthesis Salon to serve breast cancer patients in downstate Illinois
  Salon to offer wigs, hats, scarves, breast prosthetics and prosthetic bras at no cost to patients with limited resources

April 7

• Community leaders to attend GIS informational meeting

• Tornado watch: The National Weather Service in Lincoln has issued a tornado watch for Logan County till 8 p.m. Other counties under the watch are Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Maucoupin, Menard, Morgan, and Sangamon.

• Salvation Army at Lincoln readying to offer temporary shelter
  Volunteers needed to assist operation

• Gov. Blagojevich urges Republican lawmakers to put politics aside and support jobs program that would put 230,000 people to work
  Jobs bill will build better roads, improve mass transit and ease school overcrowding throughout Illinois

• Illinois Senior Hall of Fame candidates sought

April 6

• County zooming in on zoning and ordinance issues

• Geographic information system parcel mapping presentation set

• Mount Pulaski sets 15 landscape waste pickups

• Gov. Blagojevich declares 18 counties state disaster areas after latest round of severe storms
  Declaration enables state to assist hard-hit communities with their extraordinary storm-related costs

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