June 2025

Saluki Pride: K. Allison Hammer earns SIU’s Emerging Leader Award

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CARBONDALE – In just their second year on Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s faculty, K. Allison Hammer’s deep commitment to advancing diversity, gender equity and inclusion both in the classroom and the community is making a positive difference.     Since arriving at SIU Carbondale in August 2023, Hammer, the university’s 2025 Excellence Award Emerging Leader […]

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SGCMH Medical Staff Scholarship recipients announced

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STE. GENEVIEVE – The recipients of the Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospuital Medical Staff scholarships have been announced.   Chief of staff, Erika Leung, MD, awarded Jayden Rickman, Ste. Genevieve High School graduate, and Lucy Drury, Valle Catholic High School graduate.     Jayden, daughter of Staci and Kendall Scoggin, plans to attend St. Louis

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SIU’s Archaeology Field School seeks one of Southern Illinois’ earliest homesteads

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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — A Southern Illinois University Carbondale student team is searching for possibly one of the earliest Anglo-American homesteads in Southern Illinois.     Gretchen Farrell, left, and Noelle Ridolfi (top photo) excavate a section of soil as students in the SIU Carbondale Archaeology Field School search for artifacts. Natalie Eves

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SIU’s Sharp Museum to host films, exhibitions on Illinois’ LGBTQ+ history

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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Sharp Museum is hosting an evening of films celebrating Illinois’ LGBTQ+ history on Friday, June 13, while related exhibitions continue. The free, public event is from 5-9 p.m. in the museum auditorium and is part of the second annual LGBTQ+ Saluki Reunion Weekend. Juniper Oxford, coordinator of

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Ste. Gen Board of Aldermen meets in work session meets Thurs

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STE. GENEVIEVE – The Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen will meet in a work session Thursday following the regular meeting.   City Administrator Happy Welch released the tentastive agenda for the work session Saturday morning.   The tentative agenda for the meeting:   AGENDA Work Session STE. GENEVIEVE BOARD OF ALDERMEN Thursday – June 12,

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James C. Sirtak, Sr.

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JAMES C. SIRTAK, SR., 92, of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, passed away at 1:30 pm, Sunday, June 8, 2025, at Coulterville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Coulterville, Illinois.    He was born to the late George and Josephine (nee Kacinski) Sirtak on December 17, 1932, in East St. Louis, Illinois.   James married Georgia Williams

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Clyde A. Hasemeyer

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A funeral will be held Saturday, June 14, 2025 got 86-year-old Clyde A. Hasemeyer of Ellis Grove, Illinois, who passed away at 6:31 pm, Friday, June 6, 2025 at Randolph County Care Center in Sparta, Illinois. He was born February 19, 1939 in Chester, Illinois to Ralph and Marion (nee Scheltgen) Hasemeyer who both preceded

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