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Lincoln's library honors Illinois fallen soldiers
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 2 days ago
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Published May 23, 2013 Associated Press The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is hosting an exhibit of drawings of fallen Illinois soldiers. The museum announced Tuesday the exhibit will run through May 31...The traveling exhibit is
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Automotive student also drag races
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
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Clocked at speeds about 80 mph, the student at Lake Land College in Mattoon proceeded rapidly with her coursework at the Coles County Dragway. An automotive major dabbling in extracurricular drag racing for the last two years, the sophomore from
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Union workers at communications company strike
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 6 months ago
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More than 150 employees of a telecommunications company in eastern Illinois have gone on strike as contract talks have stalled. Consolidated Communications and a workers' union have been negotiating since October...The Times-Courier in Charleston and
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State prison's closing means end to dog training program
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 6 months ago
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A bed, a toilet and some photographs kept neatly in an album. But for the past four years, Blomley also has shared the cramped space with a succession of fluffy golden retrievers as she serves a 10-year sentence at the women's prison. And that, she
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Allow Me to Shake My Cane at You
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 6 months ago
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Antiquated diagrams posit a hollow Earth, concealing its own internal sun and refugee Nazi armyand who built the pyramids, now? Next door, where the grandparents live, Bob Larson is exorcising demons from those unwary teenagers who have haplessly
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SureWest to reopen Vernon Street office
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 8 months ago
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The employees are now working out of a building on Industrial Avenue. The move, which includes executive, marketing, sales, IT, finance and call center employees, is expected to take place in early 2013 after the Vernon Street location undergoes a
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Smallest Jewish congregation in U.S. struggles to survive in central Illinois
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 8 months ago
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Proud to be known as the heart of the Illinois Bible Belt, the residents of Mattoon fill dozens of Christian churches. There's also one Jewish congregation, which has the distinction of being the smallest Reform synagogue in North America...The
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Hepler Field recovering from damage suffered in May 25 tornado
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 8 months ago
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Courier & Press One of 14 airplanes housed at the Hepler Airport in Northeast Vanderburgh County lays in the ruins of the hanger Thursday morning. "This building was 120' x 60'," Grant Weythman, owner of Hepler Airport said. "The German Township Fire
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Henderson takes Babe Ruth tournament's top seed
Henderson :: NV :: USA | 10 months ago
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Photo by Darrin Phegley Darrin Phegley / The Gleaner Licking County catcher Robbie Waddell, left, meets Henderson's Kaleb Duckworth at the plate for the out on Duckworth's steal attempt during their 15 year-old National Regional Babe Ruth tournament
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Mamlic pitches Wheaton to crown
Mattoon :: IL :: USA | 10 months ago
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There was no question Mamlic was in control as he has been all summer. He scattered 8 hits and improved to 8-0 as Wheaton (29-10) advanced to the state tournament for the second time in three years with a 4-1 victory over Barrington. The guy is
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