Saturday, June 22

• Two tornados impact Central Illinois Saturday, June 15th - link

• Country Financial® supports Lincoln Rural Fire Protection District with equipment funding through Operation Helping Heroes Donation

• Free Healthy Food distribution goes lickety split

• HSLC receives donation of a new parking lot - Album

• Lincoln College Radio Team Adds Another Award
  Students Nik Jackson and Adam Hoffman Compete Head On with Commercial Broadcasters

• Shelter Insurance Foundation and Corey Leonard announce recipients of local high school scholarships

• Flooding often means more mosquitoes
  Floodwater mosquitoes typically do not carry disease

• Slim Randles' Home Country
  Sometimes heaven comes in small doses

• Flower bed maintenance keeps gardens looking their best all summer long
  By Melinda Myers

• Workplace fatigue Is nothing to yawn at

Friday, June 21

• June Logan County Briefs: Preparing alternative court site; Mental Health Advisory Committee setting structure; road projects

• Counselors roll in to Lincoln College
  ‘Bike O’Fun Tour’ combines bicycling with campus visits

• Kamryn Aylesworth earns FFA American Degree

• Soils are cooler and wetter in mid-June

• Mason City fireworks rescheduled for July 13th
  June 15th plans were dashed due to weather

• Ducks Unlimited, numerous agencies launch major conservation effort in Illinois River Valley
  Ducks Unlimited to lead 13,000-acre program

• Lincoln’s Bible – ‘the best gift’
  Family gives Lincoln Presidential Library a Bible that once belonged to the 16th president

• Pritzker Signs Executive Order Cementing Illinois’ Compressive 2020 Census Effort
  New Census Office Will Distribute Record $29 Million Investment, Ensure Accurate Count in All Communities
  Bipartisan, Bicameral Advisory Panel Will Help Guide Efforts

Thursday, June 20

• Massachusetts veteran walking from east coast to west pays a visit to Lincoln

• Visit the world in a room full of International Flavors: Lincoln Art Institute - Album

• International Flavor defies walls as music fills the streets on Thursday night - Album

• Mount Pulaski Hilltop Club offers FREE electronics recycling this Saturday

• Cornland Illinois celebrates Zip Code Day- 6-25-19

• Illinois Farm Service Agency June Newsletter

• Pritzker takes additional steps to assist farmers hurt by record rainfall and flooding
  Funding for covercrops may be available to qualified farms

Wednesday, June 19

• Mount Pulaski opens 1912 time capsule
  Among the treasures found, a New York Herald newspaper dated April 15, 1865, which featured the news of President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

• Time Capsule Contents - Part 1 - Album

• Time Capsule Contents - Part 2 - Album

• Tourism Open House enjoys a large turnout

• Free summer youth program kicks off with character lessons from Scott Brown

• Local athletes participate in the State Special Olympics Summer Games

• Hartsburg-Emden FFA honored at state convention

• Swim lessons being offered at the Mount Pulaski Pool

• Producers are Encouraged to Report Prevented Planting

• Dana-Thomas House in Springfield Celebrating Champions of Suffrage
  Tours planned for June focus on suffrage supporters

• Illinois Department of Public Health Expands Newborn Screening
  Adrenoleukodystrophy added as the 48th disorder

Tuesday, June 18

• Logan County Board considers intervening in Property Tax Appeals Board case

• Mount Pulaski opens 1912 time capsule
  Among the treasures found, a New York Herald newspaper dated April 15, 1865, which featured the news of President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Time Capsule Contents - Part 1 - Album

  • Time Capsule Contents - Part 2 - Album

• Pink Shutters wins May Window Contest

• The Hanson Family kicks off a great summer of fun and reading for the Lincoln Public Library

  • Hanson Family entertains and delights their young audience- Album

• Skylar Hayes shines in the IBCA All-Star Game

• Chester-East Lincoln School District 51
  Tuesday, June 18, 2019 meeting agenda - Pdf

• LCHS Class of 1984 reunion this weekend

• University of Illinois
  Summer watering tips for the vegetable garden

• Aprons Away: Women's work on the Mother road comes to The Pontiac Eagle this weekend
  Reservations required for this FREE event