Randolph County News

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 […]

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.

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  

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

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.

by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Four Southern Illinois University Carbondale Master of Music students will help everyone think of warmer weather ahead during a concert on Friday, March 21, in Morris Library’s third-floor rotunda. The Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series will present “SPRING” in a free, public program that starts at 4 p.m. The

CHESTER – The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office has released its latest report of arrests. Arrested were: Terry A. Webb 38, Smithton, March 3, 2025 by Randolph County Sheriff’s Office on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear on an unlawful fleeing, resisting and obstructing police charge.  Is incarcerated.   Bethany N. Myers 35, Steeleville, March