And the nominees are. These ladies were the nominees for the Office Professional of the Year award at yesterday's chamber of commerce luncheon. Amy Gallagher won the award with help from a glowing letter from her boss: Dr. John Hutchinson of Lincoln College. Congratulations to all these ladies on making a difference in their workplaces.

There were plenty of laughs with guest speaker Sam Glenn and a great meal prepared by Central Illinois Event Catering.

More pictures in today's Top Stories and Community section.

Front row: Amy Gallagher, Kate Willis, Christine Logeman, Marli Kretkowski, Vicki Harmon, Monica Ritchhart
Back row: Stephanie Hodam, Angela Ford, Gaynor Goodman, Susan Gehlbach
 

Picture by Mike Fak (Click on picture for larger image.)   

• City trims expenses, looks to employees to resolve final $83,000 deficit

• Office Professionals Luncheon -- Album 1

• Office Professionals Luncheon -- Album 2

• Office Professionals Luncheon -- Album 3

• L.E.A.F club hosts Earth Day at St. John United Church of Christ -- in pictures

• FFA plant sale continues Sunday -- in pictures

• Lincoln College unveils bronze sculpture of young Abraham Lincoln today at 4 p.m.

• Reminder: Nate Stuckey benefit Saturday at LCHS

• A record-breaking 'Run for Your Life' at LCU

• Job loss begins to moderate across state but still higher year to year

• State fire marshal announces small-equipment grants for Lincoln and Middletown fire depts.

• Educators, unions follow up rally with more pleas

• GOP senators: Quinn budget cuts only $200 million

• This day in history
  

Yesterday's Top Stories

• Development partnership hosts 1st Logan County manufacturing council at Sysco Foods

• No surprise, economic pinch seen in county audit
  County switches health insurer

• Logan County final multiplier announced

• Thousands rally at Illinois Capitol, push for tax hike

• Advocate, union Capitol rally pressures lawmakers

• 'Tree City' plants a red maple for Arbor Day

• LJHS Jazz Band performs at Washington-Monroe School -- in pictures

• This day in history

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It was a packed house at the Lincoln American Legion yesterday for the Lincoln/Logan County Chamber of Commerce's annual Office Professionals Luncheon. More pictures in today's Top Stories.

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• Personality of the Week
  A century is not enough
  101-year-old Katie Dobey continues lifelong   passion for Cubs

• Katie's poem

• Park district notes 

• YMCA notes

• Library notes 

• Chamber Monday Morning memo

• School menus

• Illini Central activities  (PDF) 

• VFW Post 1756 April calendar

• Community Calendar of Events

  • Submit entry for LDN Calendar of Events

• Friends and Family in the Military 
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• Community News & Events
   

Photos of body scans of King Tut are reflected on the display case bearing the "Replica of Tutankhamun's Body," part of the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit in New York on Wednesday. Recent CAT scans and DNA tests revealed that Tut fractured a leg shortly before he died.

AP photo/Richard Drew

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