Sept. 1

• (Labor Day holiday)

Aug. 30

• 'Can you hear me now?'
  County officials and employees struggle with new Verizon phone system full of glitches

• Bomke: Governor's changes to ethics reform bill could mean no changes at all

• Lincoln College theater instructor plays the graveyard shift

• Governor chastised for funding cuts to DCFS, tourism

Aug. 29

• Lincoln Montessori House teaching more than students
  Two new teachers set for certification

• State opens construction zones for Labor Day motorists

• Fun at Zion Lutheran School, work to be done at The Mill headline Close Up
  By Mike Fak

Aug. 28

• WANTED: Retired business executives in Logan County

• No-sue sewers, no sewers cleaned

• Commission launches bicentennial envelope design contest

• State cracking down on illegal diesel fuel users

Aug. 27

• City briefs: Festival, Lincoln rally, signs and sewers

• Free transit rides for disabled becomes law

• Statewide preparedness exercises for pandemic influenza planned
  Logan County exercise Sept. 17

• Smoking laws restricting minors expanded

Aug. 26

• Hard work behind 'noteworthy' performances
  LCHS band

• LCHS band prepares for the season
  (pictorial)

• Road closure -- now open

• Reminder: Lincoln blood drive Thursday

• Governor names new state agency directors

• Events this week and events just ahead make the Close Up
  By Mike Fak

Aug. 25

• Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival:

  • Artist's passion chisels out a winner

  • Lincoln Art Fair winners

  • A look back on the Art & Balloon Festival and Postville weekend in pictures

  • A stroll through the Art Fair -- pictures

  • Saturday afternoon's balloon launch -- pictures

  • Saturday night's balloon glow -- pictures

  • Sponsors
    (Updated list)

• Illinois National Guard units begin overseas deployment

• Road closure -- now open

• Stiffer sentences for illegal gun trafficking

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