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UPDATE: Two more Lenten Fish FriesMar 23, 2015 11:00 pm - Each Friday during Lent Catholics observe Friday as a day of fast from meat and poultry. Few these days remember when that was a year round discipline. Vatican II brough...
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Rick Holmes: What addicts say about getting high and getting betterMar 23, 2015 11:00 pm - We were talking about death, about the growing number of young people killed by overdoses of heroin and prescription drugs. If anything would scare people away from dru...
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DEATH NOTICE: Evelyn J. HerreldMar 23, 2015 11:00 pm - Evelyn J. Herreld, 75, Wayne City, died 11:10 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 2015, at the Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mt. Vernon. Funeral services are 1 p.m. Thursd...
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Paul Rogers: Ground unworkable, despite spring's arrivalMar 23, 2015 11:00 pm - The vernal equinox arrived on schedule Friday, leaving us with diminishing piles of snow and ice and soil still waterlogged and frozen. Yes, in some locations the surfac...
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Frieda P. ZettlerMar 23, 2015 9:00 am - Frieda P. Zettler, 89, of Tamaroa, passed away at 12:08 p.m. Friday, March 20, 2015 at the Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin. Frieda had worked as an LPN at Marshal...
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Extended Weather OutlookMar 23, 2015 9:00 am - Monday A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. East wind 5 to 7 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Monday Night A 20 percent chanc...
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Pinckneyville Optimist Club Easter egg hunt is Saturday, April 4Mar 23, 2015 9:00 am - The Pinckneyville Optimist Club will again sponsor the annual Easter egg hunt for youngsters, ages 2 through 8 at the Pinckneyville Fairgrounds southwest of the grandsta...
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Du Quoin Board of Education grants tenure to six district teachers; re-employs all othersMar 23, 2015 9:00 am - The Du Quoin Board of Education has granted tenure to six teachers in Du Quoin Community Unit District 300. The vote followed an executive sessions and the information c...
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Cecelia HartlineMar 23, 2015 9:00 am - Cecelia Hartline, 87, of Dowell, passed away at 8:50 a.m. Thursday, March 19, 2015 at her residence. Cecelia had been a homemaker and a punch press operator at Intermati...
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Megan Bier VenskusMar 23, 2015 9:00 am - Megan Bier Venskus, age 31, of Eastport, Maine, died of post-transplant proliferative lymphona on March 17, 2015, at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. Megan is su...