Jacksonville

The Morgan County fair officially cuts its ribbon this morning. The ribbon cutting ceremony is at 8:30 in the southeast corner of the fairgrounds. The fair opens tonight with the talent contest at 5, and the Queen pageant at 7 at the Grandstand. The outgoing queen is Bella Evans, the junior miss is Chloe Buhlig, […]

The Winchester Grade School gymnasium will come down this week. Crews are at the school today, ready to drop the building. A sagging ceiling spotted during the Winchester Invitational Tournament in January prompted district officials to move the tournament and find out why the ceiling was dropping. The support braces that extend from the gym […]

A Jacksonville man facing federal drug trafficking charges has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Springfield. Twenty-nine-year-old Christopher Robinson entered a guilty plea Tuesday to Count One of a federal indictment during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless. The guilty plea stems from a federal indictment returned in June 2024 following a […]

The Jacksonville Kiwanis Club is gearing up for an annual event that has now been moved to the fall. The Kiwanis club 15th annual point-5-K run/walk is set for Saturday, September 12th. One of the two co-chairs is Alison Yording. Yording and Marcy Patterson are leading the event. Yording says the walk will step off […]

The man in charge of tomorrow night’s fireworks for the Jacksonville 4th of July celebration at Nichols Park is hopeful Mother Nature will cooperate. Fred Blanford has been involved with the city fireworks display for 26 years. The fireworks will begin sometime between 8:30 and 9 tomorrow night. And, Blanford says more bucks this year […]

Big crowds are expected to the fireworks display for the Jacksonville Fourth of July celebration tomorrow night. There will be traffic changes to improve traffic flow, including the closure of Vandalia Road. South Jacksonville detective sergeant Brian Wilson urges people to be patient. He says no parking will be allowed on East Vandalia from South […]

A lot of rain, and a little heat are the two weather highlights from last month. The rainfall total for the month was 9 and 16-hundredths inches. That’s over twice the normal rainfall for June. The normal rainfall is just a tick under 4 and 6 tenths inches. Rain fell in 13 of the 30 […]

A local entrepreneur says work downtown is about to hit a new phase. Rabbi Rob Thomas has projects on the north side of the square in the A and A building, and the south side of the square. Thomas says his crews are finishing phase one now. He says the elevator is in place in […]

A local man with a lengthy history of break ins in Jacksonville is headed to prison. 30-year-old Miles Pelewski, listed as homeless, was sentenced to 9 years in the department of corrections by Judge Chris Reif. Court records actually indicate he received three different sentences…two 8 year terms and one 9 year term. But the […]

It’s summer, and blood supplies are running low. It’s almost an annual event for ImpactLife. The group provides blood to hospitals like Jacksonville Memorial Hospital and others in this part of the state. Kirby Winn is public relations manager for ImpactLife. He says the former blood center organization sees this happening each year at this […]