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The Mom Stop: Pay the price for safetyDec 05, 2016 10:00 pm - My daughter was in first grade the first time she boarded a bus to school. I'll admit, it was a bit of a foreign concept to me, a childhood tradition that I somehow mi...
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Coca-Cola Plant Sale? Retired NBA player showing an interestDec 05, 2016 10:00 pm - A retired NBA basketball star was in Du Quoin last Tuesday to tour the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. distribution center in Du Quoin with an interest in buying Du Quoin's signa...
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Steeleville Village Board appoints next fire chiefDec 05, 2016 10:00 pm - The Village of Steeleville has its next fire chief. Rich Reitz, a 34-year veteran of the Steeleville Fire Department, was appointed by the Steeleville Village Board on M...
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Steeleville HS gathering items for Ronald McDonald HouseDec 05, 2016 10:00 pm - The pain is still fresh for Dianne Stoffel. Slightly more than five years after the passing of her daughter, Tara Lynn, Stoffel spoke to a group of Steeleville High Scho...
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Home Help: 5 tips to prepare the bath for winterDec 05, 2016 12:01 am - TIP OF THE WEEK As chilly weather approaches, it's time for homeowners to consider ways to winterize their living spaces. New seasons serve as a great opportunity to ref...
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Silvio Calabi: With Mirage GT, Mitsubishi puts lipstick on its pigletDec 04, 2016 10:00 pm - This might just be the worst car sold here today, and I'm overjoyed to find it. For years readers have been pressing me: How is it that you can say something positive ab...
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Movie review: ‘Lion' has no biteDec 04, 2016 10:00 pm - The Oscar-roar emanating from "Lion," a true tale of a young Indian-Australian adoptee using Google Earth to find his birth mother 25 years after being separated from he...
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Peter Sarsgaard embodies but doesn't mimic Bobby Kennedy in ‘Jackie'Dec 04, 2016 10:00 pm - Borrowing from baseball terminology, Peter Sarsgaard is a utility man. If he was on the field, he could play any position. On the screen, he's the go-to guy who can play...
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Test Drive: 2017 GMC Acadia AWDDec 04, 2016 10:00 pm - Entry Price: $29,070 Price as Tested: $52,185 It's the all-new 2017 GMC Acadia we're driving this week, arriving in Denali dress with AWD underpinnings. Following 9 year...
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The Science Zone: Global warming comes to the ArcticDec 04, 2016 10:00 pm - Climate is the average weather for a given region over time, and the changes in climate are becoming hard to ignore. For decades, climatologists have warned of the dange...