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Community Leaders Respond to UPS Potential Departure - Call for Urgent Meeting
THE FOLLOWING IS A VERMILION ADVANTAGE RELEASE ABOVE: Vermilion Advantage CEO Mike Marron Danville - Recent discussions by United Parcel Service (UPS) proposing ceasing operations in Til...
Steve Brandy Apr 16, 2025

Area Storm Spotters Get a Special Refresher
Some of the people who help keep us safe during severe weather got a refresher from the National Weather Service in Danville Tuesday evening. {Bill Pickett has more... {AUDIO: "We've got a good social...
Bill Pickett Apr 16, 2025

Vermilion County Board Undergoing Some Changes
The Vermilion County Board welcomed one new member and said goodbye to another this week. Ryan Goodner was sworn in by Judge Thomas O'Shaughnessy to replace Gary Miller as a board member representing ...
Bill Pickett Apr 16, 2025

Fired Danville Human-Relations Admin Continues to Receive Support
THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JENNIFER BAILEY DANVILLE - The city's former human relations administrator, who was fired two months ago after a 34-plus-year career, said the outpour...
Steve Brandy Apr 16, 2025

DACC Interim President Looking ahead to New Strategic Plan; Including Focus on Enrollment
ABOVE: Danville Area Community College Interim President Dr. Randall Fletcher addresses Danville City Council during Tuesday night (April 15th) meeting. Danville Area Community College Interim ...
Steve Brandy Apr 16, 2025

County Board 'Still Trying to Get ... all the Facts' on Records Left in Annex Being Demolished
THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JENNIFER BAILEY ABOVE: The demolition of the former Vermilion County Courthouse Annex has caused the county issues with records that still had been in the bu...
Steve Brandy Apr 16, 2025

Vermilion County Court Annex Building Teardown Continues
Danville Director of Public Works Dave Ruwe says the teardown of the Vermilion County Court Annex Building by Homrich is continuing to be on schedule, without any problem delays. AUDIO: None to speak ...
Steve Brandy Apr 15, 2025

Danville City Council Decides to Keep Voting Rules the Same; Deferring to State Rules that Eight Votes are Needed for Passage
It was late last year that Danville Corporation Counsel Leon Parker determined that Danville did not have their own law about how many City Council votes it takes to pass an ordinance. Parker stated a...
Bill Pickett Apr 15, 2025

County Board Approves New Countywide Demolition Program
The Vermilion County Board has approved $400-thousand dollars to establish a new Blighted Real Estate Demolition Program that will focus on property countywide. Board Chairman Steve Miller says it wil...
Bill Pickett Apr 15, 2025

East Central Illinois Community Action Agency Getting Ready for 60th Anniversary Gala on Friday, April 25th
It is getting close, so make your plans now to attend the East Central Illinois Community Action Agency's "60th Anniversary Gala;" Friday, April 25th at 6 PM in the New Life Banquet Center on North Bo...
Steve Brandy Apr 15, 2025







