JASPER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING RECAP (04/16/2024)

(NEWTON) The Jasper County School Board of Education met last night for its regular monthly meeting in April in Newton. The Board : approved the payment of March bills as […]
ILLINOIS STATE NEWS BRIEF (04/16/2024)
(SPRINGFIELD) The State Senate has approved a measure to enable the Illinois Emergency Management Agency to do “all things necessary, incidental, or appropriate for the implementation” of the IEMA Act. […]
TUESDAY WEATHER DISCUSSION (04/16/2024)

(OLNEY/NEWTON) We’ll have another warm and windy day on tap for this Tuesday with the chances increasing later today through tonight for some shower and thunderstorm activity throughout our downstate […]
IN BOYS HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL FROM THE WEEKEND (04/15/2024)

(OLNEY) In High School Varsity Baseball from Friday – Although the Tigers were outhit by the host team, 7 to 3 The 7-6 Tigers are scheduled to play at Casey-Westfield […]
IN MEETINGS TONIGHT (04/15/2024)

(NEWTON) In local and area meetings coming up this week : All meetings are open to the public, with the exception of any executive sessions.
IFB EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL INSTOPPING STATE SENATE VOTE
(BLOOMINGTON) Efforts made by Illinois Farm Bureau members and coalition partners were successful in stopping the State Senate’s vote on proposed wetland legislation, at least for now. It was Wednesday […]
ILLINOIS STATE NEWS BRIEF (04/15/2024)
(SPRINGFIELD) The Illinois Department of Revenue is reminding taxpayers that today is the deadline to file those 2023 state and federal individual income tax returns. All filing must be done […]
MONDAY WEATHER DISCUSSION (04/15/2024)

(OLNEY/NEWTON) The above normal warm weather conditions continue today through midweek as a south/southwesterly wind flow re-develops by tomorrow, however the warm air from the southwest will bring us our […]
IN LOCAL AND AREA EVENTS THIS WEEKEND (04/12/2024)
(OLNEY) There’s a winner every weekend at the Olney VFW with its next Queen of Hearts drawing, all open to the public, at 4:00 this Sunday afternoon. Following a $20 […]
RICHLAND COUNTY BOARD MEETING RECAP (04/12/2024)
(OLNEY) The Richland County Board met for its regular monthly meeting for April last night in Olney. The Board : approved the payments of all county claims for March – […]