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Irrigation water cut off for some Idaho farmers - KHQ Right Now

Wood River, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 10:24

Irrigation water cut off for some Idaho farmers
KHQ Right Now
Water from the Big Wood River is now being diverted upstream to water users in the Bellevue Triangle. Carl Pendleton of the canal company says crop losses will likely be in the millions of dollars. He says farmers were anticipating a short water year ...

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Alton gets better ISO rating - Alton Telegraph

Alton, Il - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 08:06

Alton gets better ISO rating
Alton Telegraph
Sebold said the upgrade was a result of a cooperative effort beyond just the AFD. “I would like to thank the personnel of the Alton Fire Department, Alton Police Department dispatchers, East Alton Fire Department and the Illinois American Water for all ...

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From Lebanon to Kenya, the McCarters' passion is helping people - Belleville News Democrat

Collinsville Illinois - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 06:05

Belleville News Democrat

From Lebanon to Kenya, the McCarters' passion is helping people
Belleville News Democrat
Illinois State Sen. Kyle McCarter and his wife, Victoria, didn't exactly live in wedded bliss after they got married in 1984. First, the recent college grads went to India to work at a home for poor and abandoned girls as part of a Christian mission ...

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Few have ever been better than Edwardsville's Henderson - Belleville News Democrat

Edwardsville Illinois - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 05:58

Belleville News Democrat

Few have ever been better than Edwardsville's Henderson
Belleville News Democrat
Henderson, who was chosen as the Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year in Illinois, now heads to the University of Louisville, where she will compete in both basketball and track, knowing that she ended her high school career as one of the best ...

Product Upload Facilitated by Shopping Cart Elite Batch Upload - Watch List News (press release)

Litchfield, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 05:05

Product Upload Facilitated by Shopping Cart Elite Batch Upload
Watch List News (press release)
With a local office located in Litchfield IL, the company offers a huge collection of cold air induction based kits, bed covers, aftermath truck parts, and much more. Taking the services of the company a leap ahead, the company recently added a large ...

Powered by Shopping Cart Elite Platform, Coops Customs Launches New ... - PR Web (press release)

Litchfield, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 04:02

Powered by Shopping Cart Elite Platform, Coops Customs Launches New ...
PR Web (press release)
With a local office located in Litchfield IL, the company offers a huge collection of cold air induction based kits, bed covers, aftermath truck parts, and much more. Taking the services of the company a leap ahead, the company recently added a large ...

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In Photos: Celebrity Real Estate - ABC News

real estate - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 04:02

ABC News

In Photos: Celebrity Real Estate
ABC News
In Photos: Celebrity Real Estate. Previous · Next. Olivia Spencer Buys Toluca Lake Home. Actress Octavia Spencer bought a 1,714-square-foot Toluca Lake home for $841,500, according to property records, Zillow.com reported. The 1927 Spanish-style home ...

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Jeanne Ruth Baer - phillyBurbs.com

Wood River, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 02:39

Jeanne Ruth Baer
phillyBurbs.com
Jeanne Ruth (Krapf) Baer, passed away on Saturday, June 29, 2013 at Wood River Village in Bensalem, surrounded by her loving family. She was 87. Born in Hazelton, Pa., she lived in Altoona, Pa., and Binghamton, N.Y., before moving to Albany, N.Y., ...

St. Louis Metro East Affordable Assisted Living to Host Watermelon Social - PR Web (press release)

Maryville, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 01:08

PR Web (press release)

St. Louis Metro East Affordable Assisted Living to Host Watermelon Social
PR Web (press release)
Bradley, Illinois (PRWEB) July 07, 2013. Cambridge House of Maryville, a BMA affordable assisted living community, is hosting a Watermelon Social at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 11. The community, which is located at 6960 State Rte. 162 in Maryville ...

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READER COMMENT: Government Spending Cuts Should Start With Salaries - Twin Falls Times-News

Wood River, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 01:06

READER COMMENT: Government Spending Cuts Should Start With Salaries
Twin Falls Times-News
While I am on my bandwagon, another thing: Gas prices in the Wood River Valley. The company says it's because we are a resort area. Why does being a resort area give them the right to gouge people? Especially when the majority of their customers are ...

READER COMMENT: Government Spending Cuts Should Start With Salaries - Twin Falls Times-News

Wood River, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 01:06

READER COMMENT: Government Spending Cuts Should Start With Salaries
Twin Falls Times-News
While I am on my bandwagon, another thing: Gas prices in the Wood River Valley. The company says it's because we are a resort area. Why does being a resort area give them the right to gouge people? Especially when the majority of their customers are ...

LeBARON: Gettysburg veterans rest at Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Granite City, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 00:47

LeBARON: Gettysburg veterans rest at Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
We know that Nathaniel Stevens' regiment, the 8th Illinois Infantry, was there. And Amasa Arnold's 14th New York Infantry came from ... By 1870, Gus Fisher, a young stonemason from Vermont, had arrived in Santa Rosa and opened Fisher Marble and Granite ...

Real estate market looking up in county - The San Luis Obispo Tribune

real estate - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 00:25

Real estate market looking up in county
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
The median price — the point at which half of residences sell for more and half for less — continues to rise, sales have picked up and foreclosures have fallen. A strengthening economy has played a key role in the housing market's comeback, and real ...

Bernard Schoenburg : Poe , with Brauer's backing , eyes GOP leader post - The State Journal-Register

Glen Carbon, IL - Sun, 07/07/2013 - 00:11

Bernard Schoenburg : Poe , with Brauer's backing , eyes GOP leader post
The State Journal-Register
Theilen, 39, is paid $87,060 annually doing computer work for the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. He's been with the state since 2000, including a stint at the Department of Revenue and nine years at the Department of Public ...

water dries up [ JUMP ] Oregon national park pursues conservation amid shut - offs - Record-Searchlight

Wood River, IL - Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:32

water dries up [ JUMP ] Oregon national park pursues conservation amid shut - offs
Record-Searchlight
Watermaster Scott White said shut-offs could reach the Wood River later this week. The park's water is drawn from Annie Creek, a tributary of the Wood River. Dating to May 1902, the park's water right is 28th in priority, Ackerman said. Ackerman said ...

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Real Estate briefs - The News-Press

real estate - Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:16

Real Estate briefs
The News-Press
Prior to real estate, he served as a chief executive officer/owner for an accounting company and as a controller/business manager for a talent agency. Gwendolyn Leftwich Geletka has joined its North Naples office. Prior to real estate, she was ...

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Public corruption revolved around real estate deal - nwitimes.com

real estate - Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:15

Public corruption revolved around real estate deal
nwitimes.com
The U.S. Attorney's office alleged Powell, Will Smith, a former Lake County Council member, and former Gary attorney Willie Harris, conspired to steal $208,000 from Lake County government and the Gary Historical Society through an elaborate real estate ...

Program Teaches Inmates Homebuilding Skills - Alton Daily News

Alton, Il - Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:01

Program Teaches Inmates Homebuilding Skills
Alton Daily News
If the corrections system works as it's supposed to, the people in prison will go on to lead better lives and not return. A program the Illinois Department of Corrections runs with Lake Land College is preparing inmates for life outside by teaching ...

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Ruth Brunson - Quad City Times

Maryville, IL - Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:01

Ruth Brunson
Quad City Times
Her parents were Rebecca Scott and O. Ray Burgess from Maryville, Tenn., and Huntington, W.Va. Ruth maintained contact with her family in these ... She received a master's of education at Western Illinois University in 1976. During the 1980s, she spent ...

Dorothy V. Ward 1925-2013 - Trib- Today

Wood River, IL - Sat, 07/06/2013 - 22:21

Dorothy V. Ward 1925-2013
Trib- Today
She was born May 3, 1925, in Wood River, Ill., where she graduated from Wood River High School as valedictorian in 1943 and worked during World War II for Owens Illinois Glass Co. in Alton, Ill. After the war, she attended the University of Illinois ...

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