Nothing is sweeter than giving back to the community – especially when it’s sweet corn.… MORE
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Nothing is sweeter than giving back to the community – especially when it’s sweet corn.… MORE
By WMBD-TV NORMAL – Officers with the Normal Police Department spent over 108 hours during Speed Awareness Month enforcing speed related violations throughout the town, according to a news release Wednesday. In the 108 hours, officers issued 138 total traffic citations consisting of 123 speeding citations, two cell phone violation citations, and 12 other vehicle code violation…… MORE
Officers from Normal Police Department took time to connect and cool down with their community on Tuesday when they hosted Pop with a Cop.… MORE
Valuables left behind – mostly in forgotten safe-deposit boxes – wind up in the state treasurer’s office. And, after at least ten years, they are sold off. Treasurer Mike Frerichs Wednesday announced plans for an auction Saturday, August 19, at the Illinois State Fair.… MORE
“Without that open casket,” former Congressman Bobby Rush said, “we would not have had that civil rights movement.”… MORE
The Tazewell County Coroner’s office has released the name of the man killed Sunday when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle.… MORE
By WMBD-TV SPRINGFIELD – To reduce the time people have to wait along the side of the road waiting for a state trooper, the Illinois State Police is rolling out a online crash reporting system. The new system, dubbed the Civilian Crash Reporting System, will allow a person to create a crash report online without having to…… MORE
There were 5.7 days suitable for field work during the week ending July 30, 2023.… MORE
It’s been said, “all politics is local.” To hear U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg talk, you could say, “all transportation is local.”… MORE
A man from Tremont is dead after a crash involving a motorcycle and another vehicle.… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…