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District 118: Extra Grad Requirements Suspended, Meade Park Principal Honored
The Danville District 118 School Board voted 4-1 during Wednesday evening's meeting to follow Assistant Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Yacobi's proposal to suspend extra graduation requirements for thre...
Oct 07, 2021

Justice Barry Vaughn Stops in Vermilion County to Campaign for 10 Year Term on Appellate Court
A visitor came to Vermilion County Wednesday afternoon: Fifth District Appellate Court Justice Barry Vaughn. He was appointed to the Appellate Court late last year, after Justice David Overstreet was ...
Oct 06, 2021

Pilot Program to Help Families with Furnace Repairs or Purchases in Time for Winter
If your family, or if you know a family, that could use some help getting a working furnace ready to go for the winter, the East Central Illinois Community Action Agency is participating in a program ...
Oct 06, 2021

Danville's Bresee Tower Set for Demolition, but Not Right Away
During Tuesday night's Danville City Council meeting, $4,000,000 was set aside from city surplus funds for demolition of the Bresee Tower at Vermilion and Main, along with the Vermilion County Courtho...
Oct 06, 2021

Mayor Williams Believes Solution Can be Found to Residency Issue
The Danville City Council is looking to the future as far as what should the residency rules be? During Tuesday night's meeting, an item was tabled, after it had already been adjusted. Mayor Rickey Wi...
Oct 06, 2021

Danville Police Investigate Tues night Shooting of Two at Harvey and McArthur
Danville Police are looking into a shooting incident from Tuesday night involving two victims. At around 9:20 PM, a Danville Police Officer was stopped by a vehicle, and then told that two people in t...
Oct 06, 2021

Hoopeston Ranked as 3rd Most Affordable Small City in Illinois
It was just last week that the 7th annual survey from SmartAssett.com listed Hoopeston as the third most affordable small city to live in in the state of Illinois. Factors ranked include annual homeow...
Oct 06, 2021

Celebration of Jelani Day's Life, 12 Noon Sat Oct 9th at DHS Auditorium
The mother of Jelani Day says a celebration of his life will be held this Saturday, October 9th, 12 Noon, at the Danville High School auditorium. Day, a Danville Native, had last been seen August 24th...
Oct 05, 2021

Vermilion County Health Dept Reports 42 Additional COVID Cases, One Additional Death
The Vermilion County Health Department is reporting 42 new COVID cases (two residents in their 60s, two in their 50s, seven in their 40s, six in their 30s, four in their 20s, seven teens, nine grade-s...
Oct 05, 2021

Danville Fire Department Makes it Fire Prevention MONTH
This is Fire Prevention Week, but for the Danville Fire Department it's Fire Prevention Month. Last year, with all the COVID difficulties, all they could really do was the required October fire drills...
Oct 05, 2021







