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Johnson County Sheriff’s Department and Illinois State Police responded to a motorcycle accident on U.S. Route 45 South at 4:18 p.m. Monday, August 27. The crash happened approximately 1.5 miles south of Ballowe Church Road, south of Vienna. Michele C. Pender, 42, of Herrin was traveling south on Rt. 45 …

The Johnson County Bicentennial Planning Committee announced Tuesday morning the schedule of events for the bicentennial  celebration. The Johnson County Bicentennial Celebration will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 14th – 16th at the Vienna City Park. The event will feature the Illinois War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission presenting living …

The Vienna branch office of Old National Bank may soon become a branch office of Legence Bank, pending regulatory approval and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. If this is approved then planning will need to start as soon as possible, this will include looking into the type of digital …

A single vehicle crash Friday afternoon on Pleasant Grove Road required the driver to be airlifted to an Evansville hospital with serious injuries. The incident happened approximately four miles west of Buncombe. According to Johnson County sheriff deputy Scott Sparks, Conny Cunningham, 31, of Buncombe was ejected from the pickup truck …

A group of nearly two dozen Vienna residents attended a special public meeting Friday afternoon at city hall to discuss environmental and safety issues in their neighborhood. The Vienna Times and a nearby daily newspaper were notified late Thursday morning by city hall of the special meeting in an email …

Lake Egypt Water District and Southern Illinois Power Cooperative joined together in issuing a press release Wednesday requesting users of the Lake of Egypt to take extra measures in water conservation due to the ongoing drought. According to the release, residents are asked to voluntarily conserve due to weather conditions …

[quote] “I know that the decision to stop transferring prisoners is only temporary, but I hope it becomes permanent.  There are too many jobs at stake, Illinois’ prisons are already overcrowded, and it just makes no sense to move inmates from one of Illinois’ newest operational prisons to two of its …

When a pair of presenters from Ohio State University Extension finished an educational workshop last Thursday in the Gambit Event Center entitled, “Leasing Farmland for Oil and Gas Production,” Johnson County resident and landowner Verna Taylor left with as many questions as she arrived with. Taylor took notes and listened …

A few scattered rain clouds brought some much-needed relief to the region last weekend, but for many of the farmers in Southern Illinois, the rain may have been too little and too late. This summer’s drought has been called the worst since 1988, and for farmers like Goreville’s Delbert Craig …

When a power outage at a minimum-security state prison in East Moline occurred recently, a Moline union leader claimed staff reductions and overcrowding led prisoners to “riot” when the lights went off. Whether what occurred was a riot or just unruly inmates at East Moline Correctional Center is in dispute …