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By Jim Beers CHESTER – Chester Grade School music students traveled to Carterville Junior High School Saturday March 1 to compete in the 2025 Illinois Grade School Music Association (IGSMA) District 3 Solo and Ensemble Contest.  The students are under the direction of Sue Colonel who accompanied the students to the competition. Vicky Beers and […]

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

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

CARBONDALE, Ill. — Former Ottawa, Illinois, Mayor Robert Eschbach will join Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute for a special virtual conversation at 10 a.m. Friday, March 14. Eschbach, who received the 2024 Paul Simon-Jim Edgar Statesmanship Award, will discuss decades of community activity and municipal leadership with John Shaw, institute director. Former Ottawa

CHESTER – The following Chester Grade School students have been selected to attend the 2025 Monroe-Randolph County Regional Office of Education Young Authors’ Conference Tuesday, March 25 at Red Bud.   Two students from each grade level 2-8 were selected for this honor.   Kasi Jany is the CGS Reading Interventionist.     Pictured, left