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45 years at General Cable: Tom Lively, Du Quoin plant's longest tenured employee, works alongside 190 others to help power the worldNov 07, 2013 8:00 am - Less than two years after the 1966 opening of Du Quoin's beautiful new Phelps Dodge cable manufacturing center along Rt. 51 south of Du Quoin Delmar Reidelberger took st...
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City of Du Quoin to pledge respect, end the use of the R-WordNov 06, 2013 10:00 pm - On Tuesday, Nov. 12, the City of Du Quoin will unite the community to Spread the Word to End the Word, aimed at ending the hurtful use of the R-word ("retard(ed)") negat...
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Du Quoin woman signs on at Firehouse 51: Haley Conner, 22, part of the production team on NBC's hugely popular Chicago FireNov 06, 2013 1:00 pm - Dick Wolf, producer of the long-running "Law & Order" series, has been pushing all the hero buttons in Season 2 of his television drama "Chicago Fire" (Tuesday night 9 p...
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Du Quoin may not renew Espy loan: 54-month loan has had irregular payments; city wants payback to fuel newer, positive projectsNov 06, 2013 1:00 pm - A multi-million dollar Southern Illinois business development loan program that is seeing success at every turn has one frustration hanging over it--the timely payback o...
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Extended Weather OutlookNov 06, 2013 8:00 am - Wednesday Showers. Temperature rising to near 56 by 10am, then falling to around 50 during the remainder of the day. South wind 13 to 16 mph becoming northwest in the af...
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Congressman to speak in Pinckneyville on Veterans DayNov 04, 2013 10:00 pm - The Pinckneyville American Legion is pleased to have Congressman Bill Enyart as the main speaker at the Veterans Day ceremony to be held on Monday, November 11th, at the...
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Unseen work moves St. Nicholas Hotel renovation forwardNov 04, 2013 10:00 pm - What began as a simple inquiry about what this workman is doing on the front of the historic St. Nicholas Hotel turned into an update on the substantial unseen progress ...
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Extended Weather OutlookNov 04, 2013 10:00 pm - This Afternoon Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. South southeast wind around 11 mph. Tonight Showers, mainly after 2am. Low around 53. South wind 10 to 16 mph, with gu...
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Title insurance is last piece of paper needed for new hospitalNov 04, 2013 10:00 pm - Hospital Administrator Tom Hudgins reported that the last piece of paperwork needed by USDA and AgStar to finalize their parts in the construction of a new building on W...
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Driver leaves injured passenger behind SaturdayNov 03, 2013 10:00 pm - The Perry County Sheriff's Department Saturday investigated an admittedly strange accident on Rt. 13/127 south of Pyatt's Wye. At approximately 5:20 a.m. a sheriff's dep...