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State Payments, TUMS Sale Improves Pinckneyville's Year-End FinancesDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - The state paid $303,000 towards overdue utility bills at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center and the $150,000 down payment for the TUMS building was deposited i...
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Melba Jean NehrkornDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Melba was born on June 2, 1934 in Pinckneyville, Ill., a daughter to Wilson and Bertha (Benedict) Rennison. On Oct. 10, 1953, she married Raymond George Nehrkorn ...
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Ruth Huntington BaughmanDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - A family memorial service will be arranged at a future date. Mrs. Baughman was born April 1, 1932 in Du Quoin, Ill. She was a daughter of the late Russell ...
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2009 DTHC Day #2: Panthers top Carterville, will play for 3rdDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - "I thought defensively we were really good, we guarded, we kept them in front of us, checked off, played really well," said Panthers' head coach Bob Waggoner. ...
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Pinckneyville Prison Union Head Critical of Inmate 'Warehousing'Dec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - And, as the prison fills to nearly double its original capacity, a top union official says incidents like the Dec. 14 hostage-taking of a prison librarian could h...
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Armetia Ethel LanumDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Armetia was born on July 20, 1917 in Du Quoin, Ill., a daughter to Wade and Mary (Reddick) Ramsey. She married Theodore Houston Lanum, Sr. in St. Louis, Mo. and h...
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Leslie Eugene JacksonDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Gene was born on Aug. 2, 1926 in St. John, Ill., a son to William Leslie and Lavina (Holland) Jackson. He was a veteran of the United States Army serving in Japan...
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Du Quoin Kiwanis to Dissolve; Will Gift $20,000 to Local Youth ClubDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Founded May 29, 1969, the 32 charter members of the Du Quoin Kiwanis certainly did that. Four decades later, the Du Quoin chapter is dissolving, and in the ...
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New Du Quoin Wastewater Treatment Plant Employee Has Chemistry BackgroundDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - The council approved the hiring of Randi Luthy, daughter-in-law of David Luthy of Du Quoin, to fill a vacancy at the city's wastewater treatment plant. Plan...
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James D. Williams SrDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Memorial service was held 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 at Lamb Funeral Home in Gibson City. The Rev. Dr. Freddie A. Banks Jr. and the Rev. Robert Simmons off...