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Steeleville rallies past WaterlooJan 17, 2017 10:00 pm - SPARTA -- Reid Frederking scored 19 points to lead four players in double figures, and Steeleville opened the Sparta Mid-Winter Classic with a 63-60 win over Waterloo on...
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County Board expresses support for transportation initiativeJan 17, 2017 10:00 pm - As the budget fervor continues in Springfield, a “transportation legislative initiative” has begun to encourage a new statewide transportation bill. In a wea...
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Ask Lisa: What are fruit spreads?Jan 17, 2017 10:00 pm - Q: I am seeing on the jam, jelly, preserves counter in the store, the word “spread” on jars. How is that different from the others? — Genie Craven, Columb...
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Chester mayor proclaims 'School Choice Week'Jan 17, 2017 10:00 pm - In a short meeting on Tuesday, Chester Mayor Tom Page signed a proclamation commemorating “City of Chester School Choice Week” in the city from Jan. 22 throu...
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Lost in Suburbia: Connecting the dotsJan 17, 2017 10:00 pm - One morning I got up, looked in the mirror, and saw a constellation on my face. There it was, the Big Dipper of zits: One on my nose, two on my chin and two on my cheek....
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Book Notes: Maine meets ‘Deliverance’ in ‘The River at Night’Jan 17, 2017 10:00 pm - “The River at Night” By Erica Ferencik. Scout/Simon & Schuster, 2017. 320 pages. $26 Winifred Allen should have trusted her gut instincts and stayed home. Inst...
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Chester falls in CIT championshipJan 16, 2017 10:00 pm - The title drought is now at 40 years for Chester. Back in the championship game of the Chester Invitational Tournament for the first time in three seasons, the Yellow Ja...
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Evening Call editor recovering from stroke; visitors welcomeJan 16, 2017 10:00 pm - John Croessman, the longtime editor of the Du Quoin Evening Call, has improved greatly since suffering a stroke a week ago Monday – to the point where friends are ...
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Suzette Martinez Standring: ‘The Value of Doubt’Jan 16, 2017 10:00 pm - Doubt. It’s a key ingredient to faith. If you don’t question, you don’t care. A new book helped me to examine what I believe and why. “The Value of D...
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The Mom Stop: Snow days are the best daysJan 16, 2017 10:00 pm - It was somewhere between stuffing my 5-year-old son in three layers of shirts, convincing my 7-year-old daughter that she actually had to put on leggings under her jeans...