ECWd's- 110th State Representative Race A couple weeks ago the Farm Bureau hosted a meet the candidate night for the 110th District State Representative race and the Coles County Sheriffs race. We have been vetting the candidates for some time and sharing our findings regularly, which...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In the February 26, 2014, edition of the Paris Beacon-News ("PBN"), the headline read: "IDOT: Airport Project Justified". The subtitle prominently proclaims: "State official says nothing wrong with application". Then in the third paragraph, is a statement proudly proclaiming that: "IDOT says Bogue's claims...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - During the Edgar County Board Study Session on February 24, 2014, board member Jeff Voigt talked about the email from Hanson Engineering and IDOT in reference to the airport fuel farm and apron expansion projects. View the conversations starting at the 1:23:24...
ECWd's - 110th State Representative Race In Early December a request was made for the Discipline files for Sheriff Darrel Cox and John Clough. Darrel is asking for your vote for State Representative and John Clough is running for the Sheriff's seat and also is a...
ECWd’s – 110th State Representative Race It is with total amazement that I see people willing to blindly defend and follow a person, when in reality they know very little to nothing about the real person, other than what they learned from sitting at the bar...
ECWd’s – 110th State Representative Race After attending the recent Crawford County Lincoln Day Dinner and listening to the Crawford County Board Chairman George Bilyew give a brief speech about the importance of elections and how we must find candidates with integrity, trust and morals...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - As promised in this article (click here), we finally received the FOIA request back from the Illinois State Police. It turns out there was an investigation into allegations that a corrections officer traded prescription drugs for sex. The Edgar County Sheriff Department contact the...
VERMILION Co., IL. (ECWd) - This six year old girl is wearing her Hello Kitty headphones to bed in July 2013 because the wind turbines operating on the adjacent farm property is making too much noise. This photo was taken at 10:43 PM after being in bed...
DOUGLAS CO. (ECWd) - UPDATED: New hearing on all motions scheduled for May 6 at 3:00 p.m. in the Douglas County Courthouse. Freedom Of Information Act civil suit 13MR53, Kraft v Arcola Township had an appearance hearing in the Douglas County Circuit Court on March 3, 2014. I...
CHARLESTON, IL. (ECWd) - There has been considerable chatter in reference to Jimmy Rankin, candidate for Coles County Sheriff. Most of it centered around people claiming he was never in the military. We have obtained several documents (HERE) that verify he was in fact in the military...
