Mattoon and Charleston News from JG-TC | Serving Mattoon and Charleston, Illinois
Journal Gazette/Times-Courier: Local news, sports and information from Mattoon, Charleston and central Illinois.
Mattoon and Charleston News from JG-TC | Serving Mattoon and Charleston, Illinois
Journal Gazette/Times-Courier: Local news, sports and information from Mattoon, Charleston and central Illinois.
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Type(s) | Quotidien |
Langue(s) | Anglais |
Pays et région | Illinois (IL) / États-Unis |
Villes(s) | Mattoon |
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CHARLESTON (JG-TC) -- Police are investigating a report of a robbery that took place at approximately 2:35 p.m. today at Prairie State Bank and Trust, 1820 18th St near Casey's General Store, according to the Charleston Police Department.
CHARLESTON -- Trick-or-treating children were not the only ones who were out and about in costume on Saturday for Halloween.
MATTOON -- With about $12,000 in donations from friends, family and the area community, a local band was able to produce its first album in Nashville.
For most of us who were born and raised in Illinois, it's common knowledge that one of the most likely places to see American Bald Eagles is along the Mississippi River in the Alton, Ill., area.
MATTOON -- A black carriage driven by a skeleton, a monstrous tree laden with jack-o-lanterns, and a horde of other creatures are awaiting trick-or-treaters at Stinson Avenue and 14th Street.
MATTOON -- Both of the city's elementary schools have received grants to aid them in their new program to help students manage their emotions and let off some steam.
CHARLESTON -- A group of people in the Charleston community have banded together in hopes of saving the Will Rogers Theatre.
MATTOON -- The city Planning Commission voted 6-0, with one abstention, Tuesday evening to deny Mattoon Area PADS' requested special use permit for relocating its homeless shelter to 2417-2421 Marshall Ave.
CHARLESTON -- The Charleston Area Dog Club is hosting a costume parade for dog owners and their dogs as part of "Barktoberfest," a fundraising event for the club.
CHARLESTON -- Traffic lights will be implemented next year at the intersection of Illinois Route 16 and Loxa Road.
BLOOMINGTON — While watching her six-month-old son one afternoon more than three years ago, the owner of a two-story house on Lee Street in Bloomington noticed that something — or someone — had caught his attention.
MATTOON -- The trails of Douglas-Hart Nature Center were different Friday and Saturday evenings.
CHARLESTON -- Kyle Keefer, fighter paramedic for the city Fire Department, received the Charleston Exchange Club Firefighter of the Year award Oct. 13.
CHARLESTON -- Eastern Illinois University students are taking part in a seven-week program where they teach Jefferson Elementary School fourth-graders a different language.
MATTOON -- Petitions are being circulated to gather community support both for and against the Mattoon Area PADS homeless shelter's proposed move to the 2400 block of Marshall Avenue.
MATTOON -- Runners and walkers were doused in pink powder Saturday morning at various points along the route for Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center’s Paint the Town Pink 5K Color Run/Walk.
CHARLESTON -- Apple grower Aaron Hacker enjoys sharing information about his favorite fruit, and he had no shortage of audience members at the Five Mile House Fall Festival on Sunday.
MATTOON -- The city has been sprucing up the exterior of the 62-year-old Burgess-Osborne Memorial Auditorium.
CHARLESTON -- Leaders at Eastern Illinois University unveiled a new Panther logo Wednesday for the university to modernize the Eastern athletics brand.
CHARLESTON -- A local food pantry will benefit from two upcoming performances of a play that shows the perspective of some of the women characters in the literary classic "Spoon River Anthology."
SULLIVAN -- The Mattoon Home Depot store helped the Sullivan American Legion get the money it needed for improvements to its legion hall, then store workers pitched in to help with the work itself.
MATTOON -- Despite the bitter cold wind that swept through the area, roughly 20 to 30 people sought to gain more insight into the rich history and heritage that rests at Dodge Grove Cemetery during a cemetery walk Saturday.
CHARLESTON -- In the last scheduled public tours of the Coles County Courthouse for the year, area residents received insight Saturday on the complicated creation, or remodel, of the courthouse.
CHARLESTON -- Even with lingering problems such as the state budget impasse affecting Eastern Illinois University as well as other schools, the university president maintained an air of optimism as he pushed for a focus on admissions and marketing.
CHARLESTON -- More than a week of dry weather that ended with Tuesday's rain helped area farmers make good progress toward bringing in this year's crops.
MATTOON -- There was a rainbow of reasons why people attended Mattoon's first-ever "Walk to End Alzheimer's" event Saturday morning.
CHARLESTON -- Erik Eckberg said he and some of his fellow Eastern Illinois University students were happy to be covered in blood and try to catch kids who ran to get away from them.
MATTOON -- For Stanford Sharp, war and combat were not new when he arrived in Vietnam.
CHARLESTON -- Ralph Kerans was drafted into the Army in 1965, and he was then shipped off to Vietnam, serving two years on the Ton Son Nhut Air Force Base.
MATTOON -- Gerry Myers first got involved with the Special Olympics Family Festival when his employer, Consolidated Communications, founded this event in 1984, and he has been volunteering ever since, even after recently retiring.
MATTOON -- Traffic on Ninth Street in front of Mattoon Middle School slowed down noticeably at midday Thursday as drivers passed by an illuminated sign that flashed the speed at which their vehicles were going and, if needed, a message…
MATTOON -- Thomas "Mike" Rice, a 1965 graduate of Charleston High School and a 1969 graduate of the Grand Rapids School of the Bible and Music, was drafted by lottery into the Army on May 14, 1970.
CHARLESTON -- The Eastern Illinois University Autism Center steps up to offer an autism mentoring program, the only one of its kind in much of the Midwest.
CHARLESTON -- Early in the morning Saturday, with dew still settled on the grass, drivers put their helmets prepping for a race of heart and will.
ARCOLA -- Before growing to what it has become with the inclusion of concerts, vendors and carnivals rides, the Arcola Broom Corn festival focused on celebrating the heritage of broom making and its support of the community.
SHELBYVILLE -- Mark Ramsey has never had more fun coaching. He's also never coached a team quite like this one.
MATTOON -- The nickname "Doc" has stuck with Joel DuFrain ever since he served in Vietnam as a medic alongside his fellow soldiers in Delta Company of the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, known as "The Wolfhounds."
MATTOON (JG-TC) -- Electricity was out for thousands of Ameren Illinois customers for at least half an hour Tuesday morning, and the cause is under investigation.
ARTHUR -- Brian Cordes has built a cheese-eating dynasty.
MATTOON -- Ed Johnson was deployed with the 1st Infantry Division when the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army launched their large-scale Tet Offensive in January 1968.
DECATUR -- Where there is dirt in agriculture, there is money, but you've got to know how to read the signs.
DECATUR — Productivity for farmers goes right down to the tires being used on their equipment. Major agricultural tire makers at the Farm Progress Show on Wednesday were showing the latest advances in tire technology to provide a boost to…
MATTOON -- Edward Neal has long been proud of his service in Vietnam with the pharmacy and as an orderly for the 24th Evacuation Hospital, which received a Meritorious Unit Commendation.
CHAMPAIGN – The players and remaining coaches have been polite and patient and they’ve tried to say all the right things.
MATTOON -- Construction of phase two of the Mattoon Civil War Memorial Ellipse began on Monday and funds are being raised for the "Last Sentry" sculpture that will eventually be the centerpiece.
DECATUR — Jim and Joan Mahon were back in Decatur on Tuesday marveling at what they saw during the first day of the Farm Progress Show.
DECATUR — Jim and Joan Mahon were back in Decatur on Tuesday marveling at what they saw during the first day of the Farm Progress Show.
CHAMPAIGN – Illinois’ new head football coach showed up Monday with a sport coat, a bundle of passion, a promise for the fans and a tear in his eye.
CHARLESTON -- When Lester Burton took a “sabbatical” from teaching, he wound up in a war zone on the other side of the world.
CHARLESTON -- Sunnie Butler gained a new home and an expanded circle of friends this year through her work with Coles County Habitat for Humanity.