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Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
The west-side Wal-Mart could soon sell alcohol for three extra hours.
Aldermen gave initial approval Tuesday to a new liquor license for the Walmart, 3401 Freedom Drive, that would allow the store to sell liquor in the original package from 7 a.m. until 1...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
Applications to join Rochester’s Community Emergency Response Team are now available on the Rochester Police Department’s website.
The CERT program prepares residents to respond to hazards and disasters that could occur in their home or workpl...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
Glenwood Elementary School, Jason Johnson/The State Journal-RegisterThe Apple Barn in Chatham is donating more than $6,700 in plants and shrubs to landscape the new Glenwood Elementary School.
The $17.9 million school at 1401 E. Plummer Boulevard opened A...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
Glenwood High School’s recent graduating class scored the highest composite score to date on the ACT, the Ball-Chatham School Board learned Monday night.
The class of 2011 scored an average 23.6. The previous record was set in 2009 when graduating s...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
The Chatham Police Department Tuesday night showed off a new sport utility vehicle donated to the department’s canine unit.
The 2005 GMC Envoy has enough space to transport Bella, the department’s 2-1/2-year-old German shepherd, as well as a p...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
A copy of the latest agenda for Chatham Village Board meetings now has a more prominent spot on the village website.A new “Village Board Agenda & Meeting Minutes” tab has been added to the upper right corner of the screen. Clicking on the ...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
Springfield aldermen won’t meet as usual next week.
August is a five-Tuesday month, which means they get a week off.
Aldermen will meet again as a committee of the whole August 30.
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
Discussion about a possible appointment to Chatham’s new parks and recreation volunteer board became heated during Tuesday night’s village board committee meeting when one trustee questioned the transparency of the process.
Trustees talked abo...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
Tonight’s regular Sherman Village Board meeting has been rescheduled to avoid potential conflicts with the Illinois State Fair, a notice on the village website says.
The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. Aug. 23 at the village hall, 401 St. John Dri...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
A Rochester Village Board committee is meeting at 6:30 p.m. today to review a request to serve beer and wine at this year’s Olde Towne Fall Festival.The meeting will take place at the village hall/library complex at 1 Community Drive.
Michelle Babicky, ...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
A small group of residents attended Monday night’s Rochester Village Board meeting to protest a rate increase for reserving space at the village hall/library complex for their weekly Zumba classes.
Resident Stacy Austin currently holds Zumba classes...
Posted by First Reading 5 months ago.
A small group of residents attended Monday night’s Rochester Village Board meeting to protest a rate increase for reserving space at the village hall/library complex for their weekly Zumba classes.
Resident Stacy Austin currently holds Zumba classes...
Posted by First Reading 6 months ago.
The Chatham Railroad Museum saw a slight drop in visitors over the last year, according to Bill Shannon, president of the Chicago and Illinois Midland chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
CIM/NRHS runs the railroad museum at 100 N. State St...
Posted by First Reading 6 months ago.
CHATHAM – Applications are now available for Chatham’s new park and recreation volunteer board.Trustee Joe Schatteman, who heads the village board’s parks and public properties committee, proposed forming the group to guide the village board on poli...
Posted by First Reading 6 months ago.
Jerry Robertson, Rochester’s 2011 Citizen of the Year, was honored during Monday’s village board meeting with a proclamation and key to the village.
Robertson has lived in the village nearly 35 years and served two terms as a village trustee a...
Posted by First Reading 6 months ago.
Amanda Oller is Sherman’s new village clerk.
Village President Trevor Clatfelter appointed Oller to replace Karen Franklin, who stepped down after 27 years with the village.
Oller previously worked for the Menard County Treasurer’s Office.
The She...
Posted by First Reading 7 months ago.
Chatham Village President Tom Gray announced his appointments to the village board’s three committees Tuesday night.
They are as follows:
Administrative Committee
Chair: Tom Kavanagh
Members: Ken Boyle, Chuck Herr and Dan Holden
Jurisdiction: Busine...
Posted by First Reading 7 months ago.
Trustee Chuck Herr will be absent during tonight’s Chatham Village Board committee meetings due to his annual mission trip.The chair of the public works commitee last week notified his fellow board members that he is taking a group of high school st...
Posted by First Reading 7 months ago.
A resident’s question during the Chatham Village Board’s discussion about the newly implemented cleanup fee Tuesday night prompted a reprimand from Village President Tom Gray.
The board was discussing the $1-per-month cleanup fee before taking...
Posted by First Reading 7 months ago.
The Sherman Village Board this week approved a liquor license for the village’s first Walgreens store.
The business is slated to open during the first half of July, a company spokesman said.
An opening date should be announced soon.
Village Presiden...
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