HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg City Council voted to annex three lots into the city after hearing from four residents, two of whom supported annexation and two of whom did not. One of the lots is near Wal-Mart at the northeast corner of state Route 34/145 and U.S. Route 45 and two are residential areas near the cemetery on portions of Ogara Street.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg city workers, Man-Tra-Con temporary workers and Illinois Department of Transportation are working together to improve drainage on Pankey Branch on the southeast side of Harrisburg.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg City Council met with city employees in adjourned session Monday morning to hear discussions on a controversial employee insurance plan.
HARRISBURG -- Discussions of sewage dominated Harrisburg City Council's Thursday meeting. Engineer Jim Brown who will be writing up the sewage facility plan gave a presentation of three options for the sewage treatment plant that last was substantially renovated in 1969.
HARRISBURG-- Harrisburg City Council spent much of Thursday night's meeting discussing the repair of a motor and other components of a pumping station at the sewage treatment plant.
HARRISBURG -- A crew from Vandevanter Engineering of Fenton, Mo., installed two motors in the new pumping station at Harrisburg Sewerage Treatment Plant’s sub-levee Wednesday, an addition that will boost the pumping capacity to a level that is expected to save the plant from future flooding danger.
HARRISBURG — Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg used the first meeting of the new year to reflect on the portion of the past year his council has been in control of the city and he looked forward to the coming year.
Gregg said the body has placed ideas, issues and concerns on the table for the citizens to discuss. He described the time the council has been in office as a time when a progressive agenda has been prepared.
He declared, "This is the year we are going to get to work."
The council, he said, will be both watchful and careful as the city is moving ahead.
"I am excited about this year," Gregg said. "We are absolutely hitting the ground running."
HARRISBURG — Harrisburg City Treasurer Charlie Will on Thursday again came under attack because of work being done in the city by an Evansville firm, Energy Systems Group.
As the discussion developed, there was a shift: Will apparently is not the person who brought the controversial “energy study” to city government.
ELDORADO — The switchover of a large valve in the Saline Valley Conservancy District has prompted a series of boil orders for area municipalities and some rural customers of the district.
HARRISBURG — Longtime parade volunteer Jack Wise is this year's Holiday Lights Parade Marshal.
Wise will ride with Santa on the Harrisburg Fire Department's float during the 6 p.m. Dec. 8 parade before visiting with crowds at the Town and Country Lions Club on South Main Street.
HARRISBURG — Harrisburg City Council met in special session on Thursday for the purpose of moving forward with the remodeling of the Greystone Building in the Tax Increment Finance District.
It had been anticipated the council would take advantage of a twist in Illinois law that allows a body, on a 4/5th vote, to award contracts in excess of $20,000 without a bid.
The city of Harrisburg has been putting Man-Tra-Con temporary workers to use clearing areas of the city's main drainage and Mayor Eric Gregg is happy with the results.
Since Oct. 11 the workers have been clearing brush and trees from behind Aldi's to an area near the SIC Foundation Building. The result should be not only a faster flow of water through Pankey Branch, but also a more efficiently operating pumping station.
HARRISBURG — A City Council split vote on Thursday most likely will feed what has been developing as a degree of unrest among Harrisburg City employees.
On a split vote, council voted to continue what has been billed by City Treasurer Charlie Will as an energy study.
HARRISBURG — Costumes were frighten ing and am using when the area Chamber of Commerce held the annual Halloween gathering at the Courtsquare on Thursday.
The winners are featured here and others are shown in a gallery.
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HARRISBURG — Harrisburg City Council and the council’s Tax Increment Financing District consultant, Bob Vancil, took relatively gentle whacks at the Saline County Board during a Thursday meeting of council.
HARRISBURG — Harrisburg has entered into arrangements with two firms for the start of renovation of the Greystone Building in the TIF area as a way of keeping the Regional Office of Education and its employees in Harrisburg.
HARRISBURG — Harrisburgers on Thursday got a peek, but few details, as to what may be in the future of one area under the administration of Mayor Eric Gregg.
Bob Vancil of Incremental Strategies, a firm employed by City Council to study the possibility of adding a second Tax Incremental Finance District to the city and extending the life of the current TIF district, located in the northern end of the city extending from the old Wal-Mart area west through the long-defunct rail and roundtable area, updated council on TIF planning.
HARRISBURG — Harrisburg City Council is looking for ways to rejuvenate the city’s landmark structure: City Hall.
The building was renovated morethan a decade ago under guidanceof David Taylor, but now there are some serious problems.
Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg spent part of Friday afternoon running a weed-whacker on Small Street and Veterans Drive. Gregg said he wanted to get the area looking nice for the Labor Day weekend. He urged others to take time to beautify their city. “If you see trash, take a few minutes and pick it up,” Gregg said. “I'm going to do my part and I would ask everyone else to do their part.”
HARRISBURG -- The City of Harrisburg has an opportunity to employ people in the area, complete some needed projects, support local business and get some equipment free of charge due to a federal grant.
