TODAY WILL BE VERY NICE AGAIN, STORMY SUNDAY AHEAD

August 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

 

 

Detailed Forecast

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Today
Increasing clouds, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the morning.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Light southeast wind.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely. Cloudy, with a high near 79. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Sunday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 66. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. North wind 3 to 7 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. North northeast wind 3 to 6 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. East northeast wind 5 to 7 mph.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. East northeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with a high near 84. East northeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. East northeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. North northeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. Light northeast wind.
Friday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. East northeast wind 3 to 5 mph.

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City to launch weekend project to cut down weeds

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

http://www.bentongazette.com/news/city-to-launch-weekend-project-to-cut-down-weeds/article_62171456-7716-11e7-9cb2-6ba700fb1b3f.html

BENTON, IL –  (William McPherson, Benton Gazette.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

The City of Benton is getting ready to whack down some weeds.

Mayor Fred Kondritz said at Monday’s meeting that after discussing the matter with Street Commissioner Donnie Wyant, that the City will begin having a Street Department employee work an additional four hours every Saturday, weed eating various city owned properties and residential ditches until the city’s overgrowth problem is contained.

 Kondritz and Wyant discussed the matter of residents not maintaining ditches and islands. These pieces of land, although technically belonging to the City, were said to be the resident’s responsibility to maintain according to City ordinances.

 

 

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Multiple vehicle crash on Interstate 24

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

http://www.wsiltv.com/story/36064878/multiple-vehicle-crash-on-interstate-24

(WSIL – TV photo)

GOREVILLE, IL –  (Courtney Cruise, WSIL – TV.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

ORIGINAL STORY

Emergency crews are on the scene of a multiple-vehicle crash on Interstate 24.’

The crash involves at least eight vehicles with three of them on fire at mile post 2.

UPDATED STORY: AUGUST 04, 2017 1:17 P.M.

JOHNSON COUNTY — The eastbound lanes of Interstate 24 near mile post 2 have reopened.

Traffic is still moving slowly. Authorities ask that drivers avoid the area.

 

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RLC BASEBALL WARRIORS SEND TEN TO THE NEXT LEVEL

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

by Reece Rutland – Sports Information Director, Rend Lake College

INA, Ill. (Aug. 4, 2017) – Rend Lake College Baseball has a host of Warriors moving on to continue their careers at the next level. In total, 10 from RLC’s 2017 team will be competing on the diamond next season at the four-year-level.

Sam Troyer (Goshen) has committed to play for University of Evansville. Troyer finished the regular season leading the NJCAA in being hit by pitches. He finished fourth nationally in stolen bases with 39.

Tanner Maskey (Springfield) has committed to play for Southern Nazarene University. Over 45 games, Maskey averaged .267 with 14 RBIs.

Jake Vernon (Elkhart, Ind.) has committed to play for Southern Nazarene University. Vernon hit .280 on the season with 18 RBIs and 24 runs.

Jack Wolfe (Orland Park) has committed to play for Eastern Illinois University. Wolfe tossed 67.1 innings with a 4.81 ERA and 51 punch outs.

Ostin Clark (Camden, Ind.) has committed to play for Kentucky Wesleyan. Clark hit .264 with 26 RBIs and 24 runs.

TJ Satterly (Louisville, Ky.) has committed to play for Morehead State University. Scatterly recorded 71 innings pitched with a 2.92 ERA and 81 Ks and four complete games.

Zach Zarifian (Beach Park) has committed to play for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Bailey Schimpf played his high school baseball for the Z-R-C Tornadoes

Bailey Schimpf (Zeigler) has committed to play for the University of Lindenwood-Belleville. Schimpf hit .273 with the Warriors last season over 23 games. He had an on base percentage of .353.

Blake Deatherage (O’Fallon) has committed to play for Southern Baptist University. Deatherage had 18 RBIs over 39 games with 21 hits. He also drew 17 walks. On the mound, Deatherage tossed 33 innings with a 3-3 record. He carried a 2.45 ERA and recorded 42 strikeouts.

Jay Benard (Metropolis) has committed to play for Trevecca Nazarene University. Benard pitched 22.2 innings for the Warriors. He carried a 3-2 record with a 3.57 ERA and 16 strikeouts.

 

 

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Doty wins Fischoff Award Excellence in Musical Theater Award

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

By Vincent Rhomberg, Southern Illinois University Media Services

Kristin Doty, a senior from Herrin majoring in musical theater at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the fall 2017 recipient of the Stuart Fischoff Excellence in Musical Theater Award. Here she is, right, with Rachel Gordon Fischoff. (Photo provided)

CARBONDALE, IL – Kristin Doty, a senior from Herrin majoring in musical theater at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the fall 2017 recipient of the Stuart Fischoff Excellence in Musical Theater Award.

The award, presented each semester of the academic year, honors an outstanding undergraduate student in the university’s musical theater program. The honor includes a $1,000 cash award.

“I feel like I was born singing,” Doty said, acknowledging her lifelong passion for musical theater. Doty participated in her first stage production in fifth grade and has not looked back.

Doty performed in school and community shows and was part of the McLeod Summer Theater-Carbondale Community Arts’ All-Southern High School Theater Project productions throughout high school.

“It was always the highlight of my summers,” Doty said of the All-Southern theater productions. “The professional environment prepared me for the college rehearsal process and challenged me to grow as an actor, singer and dancer.”

Doty met some of the SIU faculty during those summer productions and on visits with her school during Drama Daze, one of the theater department’s most successful annual outreach programs. Doty chose SIU because she felt welcomed and because she knew her training would be in good hands.

She has appeared as Morticia in “The Addams Family” and Charlotte in “A Little Night Music.” Her summers “off” see her onstage as well. She has worked at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Ky., the Red Barn Summer Theater in Frankfort, Ind., and most recently as a camp counselor at Music Theater Works in Wilmette.

When she is not on stage at SIU, she writes poetry and theatrical plays. Doty said she clears her mind by “playing piano, knitting and gardening,” and she looks for inspiration hiking in the forests and parks in the region.

“I am overwhelmed by the love and support I’ve received from my theater family,” Doty said. “It means so much when someone believes in you, and this award has given me encouragement, confidence and determination to take with me into my senior year.”

The Stuart Fischoff Excellence in Musical Theater Award, established in 2013, honors an award-winning screenwriter, film consultant and California State University Los Angeles professor of psychology who died in 2014. Fischoff and his wife, Rachel Gordon Fischoff, who is also a writer and script consultant, moved to the area in 2005.
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Cusumano: The Yadi, Matheny drama continues

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

http://www.ksdk.com/sports/mlb/cardinals/cusumano-the-yadi-matheny-drama-continues/461533693

ST. LOUIS, MO –  (Frank Cusumano, KSDK-TV.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Jeff Curry – KSDK Photo

I like Yadier Molina. I like the way he encourages pitchers. He’s almost affectionate with them; the arm around them, the pat on the back, and the smile. If I were a pitcher, I would want to throw to that man.

He’s not exactly media friendly. He’s not rude. He’s just not talkative or outgoing. He never gives good soundbites. However, that’s okay. We do a feature on him during Spring Training and get a few sound bites during the year and that’s about it. I have been around him for 12 years but don’t really know him. He seems like he is a great father too.

The amazing thing to me is how he can turn on Matheny. This is the manager who plays him more than any catcher in baseball. This is the manager who bats him fifth when he shouldn’t bat fifth. This is the manager who literally groomed to take his own job. This is the manager who never ever says anything negative about Yadi. No one has ever defended Yadi more than Matheny.

Molina is thinking Cooperstown. And that’s not wrong. However, the Cardinals have to think about what is best for the franchise. Playing Yadier Molina at age 36 or 37 with 150 games a year is probably not best.

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Tamaroa Community High School “Indians”

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

http://www.illinoishsglorydays.com/id166.html

TAMAROA, IL –  (Illinois High School Glory Days, Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

NOTE:  I ran through all the Franklin County consolidated high schools.  I am going to share links from the surrounding counties, and former conference opponents etc. The links to the site Illinois High School Glory Days has been very popular.  I will continue to share these from time to time.  -Steve

The Tamaroa High School building being constructed in the early 1950’s. They consolidated with Pinckneyville for the 1988-89 school year. The high school building now is used as the city hall and community center.  The grade school plays their home games still in the gym. The city park is behind the old school building. (Illinois High School Glory Days Photo)

Tamaroa (population 740) is located in southern Illinois in northwest Perry County.  U.S. Route 51 runs through the center of town and connects it to its larger neighbor seven miles to the south, Du Quoin.  The Illinois Central Gulf Railroad joins with the Missourri Pacific Railroad south of town and splits again just north of Tamaroa.  A branch of the Collier Creek flows through the north end of Tamaroa.  The town name comes from the historic Native American tribe of the same name, The Tamaroa.  The Tamaroa Indians were a part of the once proud and strong Illiniwek Indian Confederation in Illinois.

Tamaroa residents probably began education efforts for their children in the late 1800s.  For several decades the town supported its own high school and grade school district. The school building at the top of this page served as both high school and grade school until the early 1950s. A new high school building was then constructed “on the west edge of town”.

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Miners Holding Eclipse Viewing Party At Rent One Park

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MARION, IL – The Southern Illinois Miners announce that they have teamed up with the Illinois 4-H for an eclipse viewing party on Monday, August 21st, at Rent One Park, offering fans the opportunity to share in this once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Gates will open at 10:00 a.m. and the event will take place until 3:00 p.m. The eclipse itself will begin around 11:52 a.m. and ending at around 2:47 p.m. Totality, where the sun will be completely blocked by the moon, will last from around 1:20 p.m. until approximately 1:22 p.m. Illinois 4-H University of Illinois Extension will host educational programs at the ballpark beginning at 10:00 a.m., offering youth hands-on activities with rockets, drones, robotics, virtual reality, 3-D printing, and environmental science. Families will also be able to enroll their children in 4-H at the site.

Each person who enters the park will receive a pair of safety glasses to be worn during the eclipse, and a telescope will also capture the eclipse and project it onto the video board in right-center field. Concession stands will be open, but in agreement with Illinois 4-H, no alcohol will be served or allowed in the ball park on Monday.

The Miners will also have laser tag in the Fun Zone down the left field line for $5, while the Mini Golf Club at Rent One Park will be open for a cost of $3. The Miners’ special eclipse jerseys that the team will wear during the weekend from August 18th-20th will be available for sale in the team store. Presales for these jerseys will start on Friday, August 18th. Gates will close one hour after the duration of the eclipse.
Tickets may be purchased in advance and will also be available the day of the event for $8 per person.

You can also add a Perfect Game package to any ticket, including a hot dog, bag of chips and soda, for $15 total, and on top of that, you can also add a ticket to Sunday’s game at 5:05 p.m. against the Florence Freedom for an additional $5. All children two years old and under are free but all others must have a ticket. There will be a limited number of tickets, so be sure to purchase early!

Parking costs will be $5 per car or $10 per bus. The parking lots will be locked on Sunday after the Miners’ game against the Freedom. No overnight parking is allowed.

Be ALL IN and take part in this incredible celestial event at Rent One Park!

The Southern Illinois Miners are the 2016 Frontier League West Division Champions, the 2014 and 2015 Frontier League East Division Champions and the 2012 Frontier League Champions. They have been awarded the Frontier League Organization of the Year award three times since their inception, and also set a new Frontier League attendance record in 2007, their inaugural season. For ticket information, contact the Rent One Park box office at (618) 998-8499. For any additional information, visit our website at www.southernillinoisminers.com.

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Miners Come Back To Top Grizzlies, Win Series

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

From the Southern Illinois Miners

The Southern Illinois Miners trailed for about half of the game against the Gateway Grizzlies at Rent One Park on Thursday night, but went ahead on a big home run by Ryan Sluder in the fifth inning, then collected five more runs in the seventh to pull away for a 7-1 win, taking the series two games to one.

In the first inning, after a single by Dan Holst and a walk by Joel McKeithan, Blake Brown’s RBI single made it 1-0 Gateway against Zach Cooper. But Cooper (3-8) would settle down from there, getting a double play groundout to end the first inning, working around two walks in the second and holding the Grizzlies off the board the rest of his outing. He ended up with a quality start on the hill, pitching six frames and surrendering just four hits and three walks with five strikeouts in earning the win.

The Miners trailed by the 1-0 score until they got to Will Anderson (2-10) in the fifth inning. After Ben Moore reached with one out on an infield hit and went to second base on an error, Sluder came up two batters later, and on an 0-2 pitch clubbed his second home run in as many nights, a go-ahead, two-run shot down the left field line, to put the Miners in front 2-1.

The score remained 2-1 Miners until the bottom of the seventh inning, when after a leadoff walk by Craig Massoni and a bunt single by Brett Wiley, Anderson departed. Moore sacrificed the runners to second and third base, and Gateway chose to intentionally walk Anthony Critelli to load the bases and bring up Sluder, who singled to left field to make it 3-1. London Lindley‘s RBI single then expanded the lead to 4-1 before Craig Massey struck the big blow of the inning, clearing the bases with a triple for a 7-1 Miners cushion.

Gateway would get no closer against the Southern Illinois bullpen as the Miners won the series by taking the final two contests against the Grizzlies. Sluder went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and three RBIs to set a career-high. Lindley also finished 1-for-3 with a run and an RBI while Massey drove in three on his lone base hit as Southern Illinois took the rubber match to cap off their long homestand.

Southern Illinois next heads on the road to take on the Florence Freedom at UC Health Stadium. Chris Washington will pitch the opener of the weekend series on Friday against the Freedom’s Tony Vocca beginning at 6:05 p.m. CDT.

The Southern Illinois Miners are the 2016 Frontier League West Division Champions, the 2014 and 2015 Frontier League East Division Champions and the 2012 Frontier League Champions. They have been awarded the Frontier League Organization of the Year award three times since their inception, and also set a new Frontier League attendance record in 2007, their inaugural season. For ticket information, contact the Rent One Park box office at (618) 998-8499. For any additional information, visit our website at www.southernillinoisminers.com.

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GOP lawmakers: CPS receives preferential treatment in school funding bill

August 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment

https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/gop-lawmakers-cps-receives-preferential-treatment-in-school-funding-bill/article_53db8c70-77d2-11e7-b23d-db26e0814a13.html

SPRINGFIELD, IL –  (Cole Latterbach, Illinois News Network.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

At the center of the school funding argument is the preferential treatment that Gov. Bruce Rauner and Republican lawmakers say Chicago Public Schools would receive under the Democrats’ plan.

When Rauner filed his amendatory veto of the school funding formula, he said it removed much of that preferential treatment CPS would have otherwise received. He objected to suburban and downstate taxpayers bailing out Chicago’s underfunded teachers’ pension.

When asked Tuesday, House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, said Chicago has long been shortchanged by the state because the city is double-billed for pensions.

“Chicago taxpayers pay for our teacher pensions but we also get to pay for the downstate teachers,” Currie said. “The downstate school districts don’t pay for their teachers.”

But suburban state Rep. Steven Reick, R-Woodstock, said the original language in Senate Bill 1 not only made the state’s annual payment to Chicago Public Schools’ pensions part of normal funding, it also allowed only Chicago to add its legacy pension debt in the formula for determining a district’s ability to fund its own schools. This made the district appear much worse off than it otherwise would, qualifying it for more state aid.

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