Curly, the Lincoln Bonanza mascot, isn't lying down on the job. The high winds knocked him over, but staff members have strapped him to the pole to make sure he doesn't become a flying mascot. The high winds the last two days had everyone "beefing" about the weather.

Picture by Karen Hargis

• Community Action names Employee of the Quarter

• Scully Building interior work progressing -- in pictures

• Zonta Club of Lincoln announces 3 scholarship winners

• Lincoln writer attends conference, notes county's literary legacy -- in Community

• Lawmakers look to slots at tracks to fund road plan

• Bomke legislation transfers burden of inmate medical expenses

• FOIA exemption for public employee evaluations heads to gov

• This day in history
  

Yesterday's Top Stories

• ICC cuts $157 million from Ameren rate request
  Local electricity up slightly, natural gas to go down

• Severe weather threat Friday afternoon and evening
  Tornado watch until 10 p.m.

• Monthlong all-county food drive begins Monday

• 2010 census takers begin door-to-door data collection in Illinois

• Brady goes on offense against Quinn

• House votes down redistricting legislation, nixing reform for this year

• Lawmakers fear deja vu with budget

• Quinn: Not interested in tax amnesty, hoping for federal money

• This day in history

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Judith Cook of Lincoln College is in seventh heaven putting the finishing touches on one of the many flower beds around campus. "The grounds crew needed help and I love doing this," she said.

Picture by Karen Hargis (Click on picture for larger image.)

• Personality of the Week
  Graue legacy continues to grow

• Lincoln writer attends conference, notes county's literary legacy

• Monthlong all-county food drive begins May 1

• YMCA notes

• Park district notes 

• Library notes 

• Chamber Monday Morning memo

• School menus

• Illini Central activities  (PDF) 

• Community Calendar of Events

  • Submit entry for LDN Calendar of Events

• Friends and Family in the Military 
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  Sponsors of the Veterans Honor Roll bricks

• Community News & Events
   

Bill Heck, left, and Maggie Lacey are shown in a scene from the Signature Theatre Company production of Horton Foote's "The Orphans' Home Cycle,"  playing off-Broadway at the Signature's Peter Norton Space in New York.

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