WATER SERVICE TO BE SHUT OFF IN NEWTON
(NEWTON) The City of Newton Water Department will be replacing a fire hydrant on Scott Avenue this coming Monday morning, September 29th. With the water to be turned off at […]
FALL FISH SALE CONTINUES ANOTHER WEEK
(OLNEY) The Richland County Soil & Water Conservation District ia still taking orders for their fall fish sales. Although the deadline to order grass carp was yesterday, all other species […]
LOCAL LIHEAP SIGNUP STARTS NEXT WEEK
(OLNEY/NEWTON) The Embarras River Basin Agency, as administrator of the LIHEAP Energy Assistance Program for the local/area counties of Richland, Jasper, Lawrence, Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Coles, Edgar, and Douglas, is […]
IT’S A BUSY FEW DAYS COMING UP
(OLNEY) The Richland County Homemakers Education Association is having a bus trip two weeks from tomorrow, on Wednesday, October 8th, with two stops included. It includes lunch at Moonshine and […]
NOTICE FOR WORK ALONG NORTH ROUTE 130
(OLNEY) The Illinois Department of Transportation and the Richland County Highway Department is announcing that while the road improvement work along Illinois Route 130 at the Mt. Gilead Lane intersection […]
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
(OLNEY) The Richland County School Board met for its regular monthly meeting last night in Olney. The Board : after a public hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2026 District […]
REGIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
(OLNEY/NEWTON) It will be another day with warmer-than-normal temperatures, but plenty of cloud cover on this Friday as an upper level low pressure system moves across the Midwest this weekend. […]
BOIL WATER IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
BOIL ORDERVILLAGE OF CLAY CITY SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 -ISSUED AT 1:30 PM AND IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE WATER CUSTOMERS ON SPECIFIC STREETS ONLY. READ CAREFULLY!! – THE WHOLE TOWN […]
NEWS FROM AROUND ILLINOIS
(CHICAGO) The Cook County Department of Public Health has confirmed the first human West Nile virus-related death in Illinois this year. Officials say the laboratory testing has confirmed that West […]
AREA/REGIONAL BLOOD DRIVES THIS WEEK
(OLNEY/NEWTON) The American Red Cross is asking area blood donors to get out and give blood at their next earliest opportunity : Monday (9//15/25) at the Laborers Local 1197 in […]