Jan. 7

• Community Action Cheeseburger in Paradise is back on March 31

• LCHS winter play Jan. 12, 14, 15

• ALMH welcomes 1st baby of 2012

• Railers begin new year with conference win

• State puts self at front of payment line

• Moody's lowers Illinois credit rating, which now ranks worst in nation

• Panel: Illinois school mergers could cost billions

• Illinois Lottery bounces $159,000 worth of checks to 85 winners

• This day in history

Jan. 4

• City Briefs: New clerk, water shut-offs and more

• Mount Pulaski ends 175th year with New Year's Eve gathering

• Girl Scouts kick off cookie drive Jan. 13

• Election notice for elderly and people with disabilities

• Little surprise: December comes in at 9th-mildest ever

• Ameren files rate-hike plan with ICC

• Quinn makes gloomy forecast for budget

• This day in history

• Mount Pulaski Rotary, Land of Lincoln Honor Flight, blood drives, Logan County Democrats, Humane Society make Close Up

Jan. 3

• ALMH to offer interactive diabetes classes in 2012

• Storyteller invites Olympia students to imagine

• Storyteller invites Olympia students to imagine -- album

• The art of Michelle Schneider at Lincoln College

• David Upchurch joins LCU advancement team

• State budget improved in 2011, little else changed

• This day in history

Dec. 30

• New: Ruben new president of Hartsburg State Bank

• New: Railers split pair to end holiday classic

• Mild weather a boon for Ill. city budgets

• Multiple locations now accept unused medications

• Railers bounce back against Dunlap

• Sears lists 79 store closings: none in Illinois

• 2011 pictures of the year -- Album 3

• 2011 pictures of the year -- Album 4

• The 2011 stories of the year: the fight to save Logan Correctional

• Quinn: Cutting 1,900 jobs; Logan Correctional among 7 state institutions named

• Quinn's $376 million budget veto likely to be spent elsewhere
  7 proposed facility closures including Logan hang in the balance

• 'Save Logan Correctional Center' march Oct. 13

• Sea of red marches for Logan Correctional

• Sea of red marches for Logan Correctional:
            Album 1  |  Album 2

• Local leaders disappointed with governor's no-show at meeting

• Legislators grill DOC officials; closing Logan makes no sense

• Local leaders, community members, tell COGFA panel why Logan is important

• Commission to vote on Logan Correctional tomorrow morning

• COGFA votes to keep Logan Correctional open

• House, Senate vote: Logan and other facilities to stay open

• Saved! Budget deal will keep Logan open

• This day in history

• Historical society, Bennett calendars, Mount Pulaski Rotary, blood drive, Kristin Allen, Matthew Southerlan and Mount Pulaski State Scholars make Close Up

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