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Ground Broken on New Covington McDonald's
After a lengthy delay due to COVID-19, officials in Covington celebrated the groundbreaking of their future McDonald's restaurant Thursday morning. Vermilion County McDonald's Owner Deanna Witzel says...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 25, 2021 Pictured from left are McDonald's Corporate Business Consultant Laura Kasper, Regional Manager Rob Witzel, Training Manager Charlie Jeffers, Director of Operations Tom Orrick, owners Deanna and Don Witzel, Covington Mayor Brad Crain and Council Member Patty Smith.

Vaccine Clinics Fully Booked This Week
If you were wanting to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a local clinic this week, you will have to wait until sometime next week. Vermilion County Health Department Administrator Doug Toole said Thursday...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 25, 2021 Yuri Samoilov / CC

DACC Expanding Audio/Visual Department, Including E-Sports
Danville Area Community College's audio and visual production areas are undergoing an expansion to better serve the needs of students in today's learning environment. Laura Hensgen, who works in commu...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 25, 2021

Maruti Seth Wants to Improve College Attendance Rates as DACC Trustee
Maruti Seth wants to increase the number of students who are attending college after high school. The owner of 17 Burger King restaurants in central Illinois, including Danville, the Indian-born and c...
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Haun Wants to "Give Back" to DACC by Serving as Trustee
In 2015 and 2016, Dylan Haun served as a student trustee on the Danville Area Community College Board of Trustees, where he got to know many of the current and former trustees while also playing a par...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 24, 2021

Rev. Parks Aims to Help Younger Generation by Serving on Board
As a minister for many years in communities across the state, Tyson Parks says that he has seen how the relationship can be good and bad between school districts and members of the African American co...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 24, 2021

35 More COVID Cases in Vermilion County
The Vermilion County Health Department is reporting that 35 more COVID-19 cases have been confirmed locally. Administrator Doug Toole says that the new cases include two people in their 80's, one pers...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 23, 2021 Muenocchio

Police Department Purchasing More Body Cameras
The Danville Police Department is getting ahead of the game and adding more body cameras to its roster before a new state law that requires them goes into effect. Members of the city council's Public ...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 23, 2021

Health Department Urging People to Sign Up for Vaccine Clinics
After one of its clinics had to be canceled this week due to low enrollment, officials with the Vermilion County Health Department are urging Vermilion County residents to sign up for one of its upcom...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 23, 2021

Police to Increase Patrols in April as Part of Campaign
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the Danville Police Department is partnering with the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police, and more than 100 loca...
Michelle Mitchell Mar 23, 2021






