Residents enjoy cleaner drinking water due to Kinkaid Lake restoration effort

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

About 30,000 people depend on Kinkaid Lake for drinking water. Yet, soil erosion within the watershed and along the lakeis dumping thousands of tons of sediment — enough to fill more than 2,200 dump trucks — into the lake...

RLC Foundation Scholarship Dinner draws 300 for annual celebration

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

Scholarship recipients and donors shared an evening together last week at the annual Rend Lake College Foundation Scholarship Dinner to applaud the gift of giving. The event was held last Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Rend Lake Resort in Whittington.Kay Zibby-Damron, RLC Foundation CEO,...

New Youth Minister Aims to Bring Hope to Students

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

Photo/story courtesy of Barry Cleveland.“We can create change in children’s lives,” Drew Flanagan told a Carmi audience Thursday, and in so doing change the world—a little bit at a time. The new youth minister at First Christian Church was the guest speaker at Thursday’s weekly...

RLC Scholarship helped Logan Tharp draw up a master plan

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

It’s not every day that you get to win an art contest and go to college for free, but that’s the exact situation Logan Tharp found himself in when he was selected as the scholarship recipient of the 2014 Rend Lake College Student Art...

RIDES to the polls Nov. 8

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

Rides Mass Transit District will be providing complimentary transportation to the polls for the General Election, Tuesday, Nov. 8 to all residents of the Rides 18-county service area. Residents will be able to ride to the polls on regular existing routes throughout the county on...

Raptors and races at Cahokia Mounds Historic site hosts birds of prey demonstration Nov. 5 and 5-K run/walk on Nov. 6

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

Raptors will take to the air and runners will hit the trail the weekend of Nov. 5-6 at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.The World Bird Sanctuary brings live birds of prey to Cahokia Mounds at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5....

Miss Illinois Teen USA – Olivia Bohleber

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

Rotary visited by royalty Thursday

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

At Thursday’s meeting of the Carmi Rotary club, the Rotarians were visited by local “royalty”. Miss Teen Illinois, Olivia Bohleber was the guest speaker, as she told the club about her recent win in the state contest.She told the group that she had only...

MCPD arrest report 10/25-10/27

Friday, October 28 by Jc Tinsley

The following subjects were arrested by the Mt. Carmel Police Department. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.10/25/2016-Mt. Carmel Police executed an arrest warrant on Kyria J. Linson, age 33, of Mt. Carmel after police received information that she...

MCPD: Update on arrest of armed robbery suspect

Thursday, October 27 by Jc Tinsley

On 10/22/2016, John Ryan Tennis, age 36, of rural Mt. Carmel was taken into custody in relationship to two armed robberies that occurred in Mt. Carmel.On October 11, 2016 a male subject armed with a handgun entered Family Video at 520 N. Walnut Street requesting all...