Mattoon School Resource Officer pleads Guilty –
…50 Hours community service to be completed within one year On December 20, 2019 at approximately 11:48 p.m., at Old State Road and 610 East, in Coles County, Mattoon Police…
Pecatonica Township Electors to vote on use of township property –
Pecatonica, IL. (ECWd) – Prior to the Feb 18, 2020, Pecatonica Township meeting, Rogene Hamilton’s attorney, Denise Ambroziak, sent the Pecatonica Police Chief, and the township’s attorney a letter stating…
Township Attorney John Nelson called residents “assholes” at meeting –
Pecatonica, IL. (ECWd) – Musso and Nelson Another eventful Pecatonica Township meeting led to the Township’s Attorney, John Nelson, called a resident an asshole just prior to the meeting being…
Joliet Township – Are Seniors being hoodwinked?
…transfers among township funds? (a) The legal voters of a township at an annual township meeting or at a special township meeting called for that purpose may, by written resolution…
IDOT questions Mattoon’s appointment to Coles County Airport Authority –
…Mayor and their attorney on the appointment and informed them that the appointment was invalid because Nelson was an employee of the Mattoon School District. The Airport Authorities Act prohibits…
$350K settlement against Deputy Burgin and Edgar County Sheriff Jeff Wood –
…and four claims against Jeff Wood, due to his responsibility of the actions of his deputy. On September 26, 2019, Judge Colin Bruce of the Federal District Court for the…
Case dismissed against township resident arrested for attending public meeting –
Pecatonica, IL. (ECWd) – As I predicted during the January 2020 Pecatonica Township meeting, all charges against Rogene Hamilton, who was arrested for attending the township public meeting, were dismissed…
Mattoon’s Attorney misquotes law on prohibition of Airport Authority Appointments –
MATTOON, IL. (ECWd) – After our previous article on the City of Mattoon’s alleged illegal appointment of an employee of the Mattoon School District to a vacant Coles County Airport…
John Norton’s ever-changing Courtroom Testimony re: income –
Wesley Township (ECWd) – We have taken notice, over a series of different court cases and hearings, that the former appointed Wesley Township Road Commissioner, John Norton, may have problems…
(Video) Accident in Oliver, IL –
…injuries transported to the Paris Hospital. Traffic was backed up for approximately 45 minutes but is now moving while vehicles are being moved from the roadway. The Paris Fire Protection…