Tuesday, May 15, 2012

• Today's Top Stories

Top Stories from the past week

May 14

• Logan County Board debates elected officials' salaries and raises

• Katherine Lewis wins title of best speller in District 27

• 2nd payment of Logan County sales tax received for school facilities

• Citywide sales draw large crowds

  • Scenes from the VFW flea market

    • Album 1     |     Album 2

  • HSLC profits from community generosity

    • Album 1     |     Album 2

• Tourism bureau introduces geocaching to Logan County

• Glass recycling returns to Logan County

• Chamber to host golf outing

• Community Action collects almost 3,000 diapers

• Julie Cross is May Employee of Month at ALMH

• USDA seeks applications for grants to improve the quality of rural housing

May 12

• WLB PTO recognizes outstanding teachers

• Woods Foundation awards $360,000 to Logan County schools

• Apartment building sustains structural damage when hit by car Friday afternoon

• Reminder: Route 121 to be closed next week

• Lincoln College hires Pat Lepper as new men's basketball coach

• Lincoln College's Sally Pyne honored by Leadership McLean County

• Miller Park Zoo offers free admission to moms

• Help mom save $4,000 a year

• Illinois Farm Bureau files motion to intervene in Mississippi River Basin lawsuit

• Old State Capitol mustering in participants for Civil War Medical Encampment Education Day June 8

• Illinois State Genealogical Society conference scheduled for Oct. 19-20 in Rockford

• This day in history

May 11

• Garage sale by HSLC starts TODAY!

• 1st FAA-approved unmanned flight in civilian airspace set for Havana

  • October 2011 1st attempt at unmanned flight -- album

• Mount Pulaski High School Honors Night

  • Album 1  |  Album 2
    Album 3  |  Album 4

  • Mount Pulaski High School Honors Night recipients

  • Audrey Maske named 2012 Senior-of-the-Year

• LCHS Foundation names this year's scholarship recipients

• LCHS public hearing to discuss holiday waiver

• Community Action celebrates Senior Corps Week

• Suspect arrested in Logan County Animal Control burglary

• Notice of smoke testing

• Thrivent Financial to offer free drive-thru breakfast

• New scholarship named for Memorial employee

• Diamond Pet Foods expands recall

• Is that you, Mr. Lincoln?

• Battle of Shiloh's Benjamin Prentiss is 'General of the Month' at Old State Capitol

• This day in history

May 10

• Bike trail committee seeks public support in the form of letters

• Logan County EMA conducts reunification drill at Jefferson School

• LCHS awards assembly and commencement dates announced

• Notice of smoke testing

• Inflatable pool slides sold at Wal-Mart and Toys R Us recalled after 1 death

• Benefit in Mason City for Carlin family

• Dealing with immediate uncertainty:
  When a nursing home is the right option

• Relay for Life breakfast May 20

• LCHS' Matthew Barker to join Kentucky Christian University Marching Knights

• Whitbeck recognized at Indiana Rotary conference

• Emiquon lecture on prairie restoration

• IDOT, law enforcement and safety advocates launch 'Start Seeing Motorcycles' campaign statewide

• FSA allocates an additional 400,000 acres for SAFE

• This day in history

May 9

• By default, city prohibits video gambling

• Aaron Schock to be keynote speaker at development partnership luncheon

• Late-night crash results in 2 fatalities

• Lincoln student wins statewide award at annual Illinois History Expo

• 7 Zion Lutheran students excel at state history fair

• Chip off the ol' block? Historian Paul Beaver's granddaughter excels in history

  • Chip off the ol' block -- album

• Free movie in the park on Saturday

• Native plant sale at Sugar Grove Nature Center

• May is Asthma Awareness Month

• Guns, guts and germs: 'To Kill and to Heal: Weapons and Medicine of the Civil War' opens Friday at Lincoln Presidential Museum

• This day in history

May 8

• Vehicle for Lincoln fire chief hangs in limbo

• Local DCFS office gets a helping hand from Jefferson Street Church

• MS Walk brings in good crowd in spite of the heat

  • Album 1  |  Album 2  |  Album 3

• Recycling notices:

  • Monthly electronics recycling collection

  • Glass recycling collection returns

• Logan County Department of Public Health food inspection scores

• Elkhart Historical Society presents …
  'From Lincoln's Tomb to Arlington and Back'

• Zonta Club of Lincoln announces Young Women in Public Affairs scholarship recipient

• 'Life and Limb' Civil War exhibit at Old State Capitol May 14-June 23

• This day in history

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