10 Feb Tom Tuttle appointed interim Edgar County Airport Manager –
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - After accepting Jerry Griffin's resignation, the county board appointed Tom Tuttle as interim Airport Manager. More info to follow...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - After accepting Jerry Griffin's resignation, the county board appointed Tom Tuttle as interim Airport Manager. More info to follow...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - For the second time in the past 18 months, and in a move reminiscent of what we reported in September of 2014, when we wrote about the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") calling a work stoppage on all work related to the Edgar County Airport grant...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - When you look at people and how they conduct themselves in their quest for political power, you must take into consideration the actions from their past that may reflect on how they will act once elected. When we look at candidate Randy...
Charleston, IL. (ECWd) - Students, staff, and residents held a rally at Eastern Illinois University last week to protest and demand that Governor Rauner pass the budget and provide the much needed funds promised to EIU and other schools in the state. Sadly, missing from the...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - On the agenda for the upcoming Edgar County Board Meeting, February 10, 2016, is item number 17, "Accept Resignation of Jerry Griffin, Airport Manager." Other items to be acted on include, but are not limited to: appoint an interim Airport Manager advertise for an Airport...
LERNA, IL. (ECWd) - In a brief Special Meeting of the Village of Lerna Board of Trustees, held at 2:00 p.m. today, the trustees appointed a new village president. After roll call, the (new) unconditional resignation of Don Pearcy was read aloud, and each of the trustees...
EDGAR CO., IL., (ECWd) - Below are the sample March 2016 ballots for Edgar County broken down by party. These came from the Edgar County Clerk a couple of days ago. They are not broken down by precinct, which is what you will get when you go to...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In our final responsive dispatch to Mike Heltsley's wild-eyed, angry letter to the "editor": "A prime example was John Kraft picking on Dan Bruner's short speech of the positive things the Edgar County Board has done...
Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - On 2/4/16, the Village of Tinley Park held a Planning Commission meeting where its Planning Director, Amy Connolly, refused to speak or answer the public’s questions. Earlier this week, we covered the breaking scandal in this southwestern Chicago suburb where it...
DuPage Co., (ECWd) - In a letter to the Higher Learning Commission, DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin praised the new reform majority of the College of DuPage and their swift action to restore the College's credibility and their instituting of required reform measures. He explained, in the letter,...