Decatur School Board Meeting: Speaker accosted, demands for resignations –
Decatur, IL. (ECWd) – Public comment during Decatur Public School’s February 25, 2020, board meeting saw the school district’s attorney lay his hands on a speaker, shake his finger at…
Avon Township Electors condemn real estate purchase –
…Avon Township duly assembled at the January 13, 2020 Township Meeting of Avon Township, Lake County, Illinois, as follows: DISAPPROVAL OF ACTION. The Electors of Avon Township disapprove of and…
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…