Category Archives: More News

Danville Does Well in Measure of Economic Inflation
The website SmartAsset.com recently published a study of 235 urban areas nationwide, trying to find those that had the least economic inflation. The Danville, IL area finished in the top 50 in that st...
Aug 16, 2018

Hays Looking Forward to New Job
State Representative Chad Hays was the guest on Newsmakers with Linda Bolton Wednesday morning on WDAN, talking about the last few days coming up of his days as a Springfield lawmaker. He will be offi...
Aug 16, 2018

Danville Police Investigating Third Area Shooting in a Week
Danville Police are investigating their third area shooting of the week. Yesterday at 3:40 in the morning Danville Police responded to OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center for a report of a victim with a g...
Aug 15, 2018

Watchfire Signs Gets Multi-Million Dollar Las Vegas Contract
Watchfire Signs of Danville has been selected to completely rebuild the canopy that is part of the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. Watchfire beat out 14 other digital screen manufacturers from...
Aug 15, 2018

Vermilion County Coroner's Office Looking to Digitize Records
Vermilion County Coroner Jane McFadden is looking to take the coroner's office into the 21st century.. https://express-images.franklymedia.com/9850/sites/9/2018/08/15045456/McFADDEN-digitizing.mp3 She...
Aug 15, 2018

DHS Wall of Fame Nominations Sought
Danville High School is asking for nominations for their Wall of Fame. The DHS Wall of Fame's purpose is to promote pride in Danville Public Schools and the city itself and to provide positive role mo...
Aug 15, 2018

Danville Police Investigating Two Shooting Incidents UPDATE!
Danville police are investigating two shooting incidents. Early yesterday morning police responded to a residence in the unit block of Kentucky Street in reference to a victim of a shooting. They foun...
Aug 14, 2018

Vermilion Advantage Discontinuing Issuing Chamber Dollars
Vermilion Advantage has decided to discontinue their Chamber Dollars program. In a statement issued by Vermilion Advantage President and CEO Vicki Haugen, it was announced that no additional Chamber D...
Aug 14, 2018

DACC Trustee Tonya Hill Resigns; Is Finalist for DACC Foundation Executive Director
Danville Area Community College Trustee Tonya Hill resigned from the College Board of Trustees. The resignation is effective as of Fri., Aug. 10, 2018. Hill was elected in 2015 to a six-year term, whi...
Aug 14, 2018

Vermilion County Public School Kindergarten Readiness Assessed
The Illinois State Board of Education has released data from their 2017 Kindergarten Individual Development Survey or "KIDS" and Vermilion County Public Schools participated. The survey assessed the r...
Aug 14, 2018






