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Grease to be Presented This Weekend

Wednesday, March 6 by Jc Tinsley

Grease To Be Presented This Weekend The Carmi White County High School Drama Department will be presenting the popular musical Grease this weekend.The show will be presented at 7:30 Friday and Saturday evenings at the Carmi White County High School Auditorium. There will be a...

Burrell Park Will be the Site of New Dog Park

Wednesday, March 6 by Jc Tinsley

Burrell Park Will Be the Site of New Dog Park A group of enterprising Carmi White County High School students, members of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Class, better known as STEM won the approval of the Carmi City Council Tuesday night, with the...

Wabash County Crash Claims One

Wednesday, March 6 by Jc Tinsley

Wabash County Fatality A two vehicle crash involving a garbage truck and a pick up truck in Wabash County Tuesday sent one person to the hospital and left one person dead.According to the Illinois State Police traffic alert, Brenda S. Morehead, 66 of Mt. Carmel...

Blackledge Scholarship Applications Available

Tuesday, March 5 by Jc Tinsley

Blackledge Scholarship Applications AvailableApplications are now available from The White County Lions/Blackledge Scholarship beginning March 1st and ending April 1st, 2019, for all White County High School seniors and White County High School graduates attending a Junior College.Applications may be picked up from the...

Norris City Village Board Met Monday

Tuesday, March 5 by Jc Tinsley

Norris City Village BoardThe board approved the non-emergency dispatch service contract. To help pay for it, the village eliminated the answering service, long distance and multiple lines and Mayor Roy Kissell said he's working on obtaining a money market account at 5.1%. The contract...

SIC Forensic Falcons 2019 State Champions

Tuesday, March 5 by Jc Tinsley

SIC Forensic Falcons are 2019 State Champions HARRISBURG, IL (March 4, 2019) – SIC’s Forensic Falcons won the community college division at the Illinois Intercollegiate Forensic Association state tournament on the campus of Northern Illinois University on March 3 in DeKalb, Illinois. SIC also earned fifth...

SIC Softball Season Opens This Week

Tuesday, March 5 by Jc Tinsley

SIC Softball Season Opens This Week-- The SIC Lady Falcon Softball Team begins regular season play Thursday at 2 p.m. at home on Falcon Field against Lake Lank College, if conditions are favorable. Please visit

A Full Crowd Turned Out For Gun Meeting

Tuesday, March 5 by Jc Tinsley

Gun Meeting- It was standing room only at Family Life Center in Enfield Tuesday evening.Illinois Senate Bill 107 is calling for a ban on firearms it defines as “assault weapons.” It drew the most attention during Tuesday’s meeting.“We should be alarmed," said State Senator...

Sheriff’s Reports

Tuesday, March 5 by Jc Tinsley

Sheriff’s Reports The White County Sheriff’s Department released information Monday morning, concerning a van fire, an abandoned vehicle and a theft, all of which occurred last week.Deputy Sheriff Scott Cantrell responded to a report of a van on fire in Norris City, last Tuesday, Feb....

WYSE Winners

Monday, March 4 by Jc Tinsley

WYSE Winners Nearly 130 high school students from the region competed in the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) regional exams in early February.Exams administered during the three levels of WYSE competition are designed to test the student’s knowledge of biology, chemistry, computer science,...