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NOKOMIS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Nokomis will host a community blood drive on July 27 from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm at the Nokomis Memorial Park House located at 118 Memorial Park Drive. Donors will receive a $10 gift card of their choice and be entered into a drawing for a $2,500 vacation package. Donors must be at least 17 years old (or 16 with parental permission form), weigh more than 110 pounds, gave blood on or before April 25 and […]
ARLINGTON, Va. (Heartland Newsfeed via Morning Consult) -- Illinois trailed most states financially long before this year’s dramatic budget impasse, according to an annual report published Tuesday by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Illinois, which last week narrowly passed its first budget in three years, ranked 49th in the libertarian-leaning think tank’s 2017 state-by-state fiscal solvency report. New Jersey ranked 50th. The rankings are based on data from the 2015-16 fiscal year, before Illinois’ almost $15 billion in unpaid bills prompted the […]
HILLSBORO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The Olde Tyme Tractor Show will be held this weekend, July 15 and 16 at Lake Glenn Shoals Park. The show, celebrating 22 years in operation, is sponsored by the Montgomery County Farm Bureau. Registration will begins each day at 9 AM, with no entry fee and exhibitors will receive a show button. Antique tractors and equipment manufactured in prior to and including 1982, restored or unrestored are welcome. Any farm-related items such as stationary engines, […]
A common chorus of if/then statements dominates most contemporary discussions of education reform: If schools had more money, then they would do better at educating kids. If teachers were paid more money, then they would do better at educating kids. If there were more taxpayer support for traditional public schools, then we would have better education outcomes. But is more money really the answer? Or is the problem with the structure of forced schooling itself? An article last week in […]
NOKOMIS (Heartland Newsfeed/Free Press-Progress/Morrisonville Times) -- At approximately 11 PM Monday night, a severe storm impacted the Nokomis area, hitting residents with high winds. The National Weather Service reported that the storm that impacted the area contained severe straight line winds. Initial calls to the Montgomery County 911 indicated that many tree limbs and power lines were down. A report of a partial collapse of a residence due to a tree impacting the area in the 900 block of E. […]
PANA (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Pana Medical Group, a division of Pana Community Hospital, re-opened their office following renovations that lasted a little over a month. Completed renovations included a new front entrance, new windows at the front of the building, improved lighting in the waiting room, the addition of a flat screen HDTV in the waiting room and fresh paint in the waiting room, reception area and all patient rooms. Pana Medical Group and Pana Community Hospital hopes their clinic […]
MT. VERNON (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Affordable Gas + Electric (AGE) announced the addition of Bob Kelsheimer as Sr. Energy Strategist Monday. Bob brings over 26 years of electric and gas utility experience to AGE’s management team having worked for Illinois Power and later Dynegy. Bob served as Senior Regional Manager and chief media spokesman for the metro-east Illinois service area and as account manager of the region’s top 50 customers. Additionally, Bob is a DOE Certified Energy Auditor, having received […]
MARSHALL (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Terry Stepp was never asked to print 55,000 pages of data to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and Gary Strohm, publisher of the Marshall Advocate, should refrain from printing such false accusations, the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) contended recently. Stepp, the former Clark County Park District commissioner, allegedly told Strohm that the district had received FOIA requests that would have cost more than $ 40,000 to satisfy, amounting to 55,000 pages. “Both of […]
EFFINGHAM (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Despite being directed by a court to employ an assistant state’s attorney for legal issues regarding Altamont Ambulance, Effingham County never technically employed Chris Koester, who nevertheless received at least $62,000 in compensation, according to the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW). “Does anyone see a problem when an Assistant State’s Attorney, who by law is an employee, can bill for conversations with his boss, the State’s Attorney?” ECW co-founder Kirk Allen wrote. “The whole purpose of setting […]
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