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The Johnson County Junque Jamboree will be held on the historic Johnson County Courthouse square in Vienna on Saturday Sept. 16. For over four years this event has been going on and people come from miles away to look for a treasure.  This event is free and open to the …

Orders for Total Solar Eclipse T-shirts are being taken until Sept. 15. Below is the order form.

The Vienna High School Baccalaureate Service to honor high school seniors will be at Gilead Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, May 17, at 7 p.m. All high school seniors and their families are invited to attend. The speaker will be Mr. Brian Jones, a Vienna High School teacher, who teaches …

Cypress Elementary School is scheduled to hold its pre-k screening and kindergarten registration day on Wednesday, April 26. Appointments will be available from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Children will be screened in a variety of areas, including fine motor, gross motor, language development and cognitive development. A nurse will …

Scouts from Troop 41 in Vienna recently traveled to Vicksburg, Mississippi to tour the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg at the Vicksburg National Military Park. The park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, 20 miles of historic trenches and earthworks, a 16-mile tour road, a 12.5-mile …

For the first time in nearly 15 years, Johnson County has a Master Gardener graduate. Mrs. Carmen Dixon, center in photo, completed the 11-week training and will be completing volunteer hours over the next year.  Part of her volunteering will include submitting articles to local papers, doing presentations to groups, …

VIENNA, ILL. – To help make his office more easily accessible to Southern Illinois residents, state Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Harrisburg, will be hosting satellite office hours in Vienna. “As state Representative, it is very important to me to help make my staff easily accessible as possible to the people that I …

St. Paul Catholic Church is planning to have a fish fry on Friday, March 17 and Friday, March 31 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. On the menu is hand battered fish, French fries, coleslaw, hushpuppies, dessert and a drink. Adults costs $9, children costs $5 and kids under 3 …

Michael Harris of Vienna recently placed second in his class at the World of Wheels car show. The car show took place in Indianapolis, Feb. 10-12. Harris showed his 1959 English Ford Thames in the Pro Street 1949-1964 class. The World of Wheel cars shows are invite only and take …

Christmas Eve and all through the house, not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse, I’ll never forget some Christmas’s we had when all of us kids were home. We didn’t get all the fancy toys they get now but we loved what we got. Sometimes I think kids …