CARBONDALE – The 28th annual Celebrate Women event will feature a Southern Illinois University Carbondale automotive technology instructor who will speak on the theme, “Driving Us Forward: Women in Automotive.” SIU School of Automotive students get hands-on learning. (Photo by Deangelo Handley) The event will be from 4:45-7:30 p.m. March 27 at the Glenn Poshard Transportation […]
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CHESTER – The Chester City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, March 14 in the city Municipal Building, 1330 Swanwick Street, Chester, Illinois. The tentative agenda for the meeting: CHESTER, ILLINOIS CITY COUNCIL AGENDA March 14, 2025 CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE READING OF MINUTES
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CHESTER – The Chester Gas, Water and Sewer Committee will meet in special session at 4 p.m. Monday, March 14 and 4 p.m. in the Chester Municipal Building. The official notice of the meeting and tentative agenda: NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING GAS, WATER & SEWER COMMITTEE CITY OF CHESTER, ILLINOIS
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paulette Curkin Pride Resource Center and the Women’s Resource Center are hosting the SIU Women’s Film Festival, Monday and Tuesday, March 17-18. The free film screenings and discussions in Morris Library’s John C. Guyon Auditorium are open to the public. A discussion panel will follow each of the films.
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Music will host a recital featuring the works from Mongolia’s best composers at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in the university’s Old Baptist Foundation Recital Hall. Mikka Chinbaatar, a graduate student in collaborative piano, and musician Bayarbaatar Bavuudorj (below) are among the artists featured in
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Susan Catherine (Kitty) Schaefer, born in Covington, TN on July 30, 1942, to Daniel Frederick and Mary Tom Lindsey Jennings, passed away at her home in Ste. Genevieve, MO, on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Kitty was a graduate of Byars Hall High School and attended Memphis State University. She started a career at the
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Oliver W. “Mitch” Michaud, 92, of Perryville, Missouri passed away Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at Mercy Hospital Perry. He was born November 5, 1932 in Perryville, MO to Peter Valle and Pearl (Fadler) Michaud. Mitch and Lavern Wolter were married on December 31, 1977 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Chester, Il. She survives him
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By Jim Beers CHESTER – Chester High School strongly encourages and recognizes and students who come to school. It is quite an accomplishment to maintain perfect attendance, so Principal Jeremy Blechle and Assistant Principal Robin Barton have made major attempts to honor and recognize those students who achieve perfect attendance each month. Pictured
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Treasures and hard-to-find items will be discovered when the Friends of Morris Library and WSIU Radio host a massive public sale at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in March. The Book/Vinyl and Media Sale is March 21-22 in the Morris Library basement. The sale will run from 4 to 7 p.m. March 21 and 10 a.m.
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A funeral mass will be held Saturday for 80-year-old Thelma A. Nations of Perryville, Missouri who peacefully passed away Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. She was born January 11, 1945 in Longtown, Mo. to Anton J. and Wilma M. (Unterreiner) Buchheit, who both preceded her in death. Thelma
