Category Archives: More News

Carle Seeks Participants for Cancer Study
Carle is encouraging women living in the Hoopeston or Mattoon areas who have never had breast cancer to participate in an eight year study. It will focus on the risk factors affecting breast imaging. ...
Feb 01, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Set in Rantoul
OSF Healthcare, in partnership with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and Village of Rantoul, are hosting a community-based COVID 19 vaccination clinic in Rantoul. The clinic is being held a...
Feb 01, 2021 sergio santos / CC

Congresswoman Miller Gets Committee Posts
Fifteenth District Congresswoman Mary Miller has been assigned to serve on two U.S. House committees. One is the Committee on Education and Labor, and the other is the Agriculture Committee. ''I am th...
Feb 01, 2021

Chad Hays Discusses New State Post
Former State Representative Chad Hays is officially back in state government as a member of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. Hays became a member of the board earlier this month, replac...
Michelle Mitchell Jan 31, 2021

Central Illinois Man Gets Life for Sex Trafficking Operation
A man who ran a sex trafficking operation out of a Champaign motel room will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the crime. Federal Judge James Shadid sentenced 48-year-old Franshon Stapleton o...
Michelle Mitchell Jan 31, 2021 Blogtrepreneur / CC

79 New COVID-19 Cases in Vermilion County
The Vermilion County Health Department says that 79 more people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the county. Administrator Doug Toole says there have been 7,428 positive cases so far since the pan...
Michelle Mitchell Jan 31, 2021 Yuri Samoilov / CC

Public Can Choose the Name of New DACC Mascot
UPDATE: Mick Jaguar has been chosen as the new name of the DACC mascot. ------------------------------ Danville Area Community College has a new mascot, and it is asking the public to choose its name....
Michelle Mitchell Jan 29, 2021

Watchfire Signs Wins National Contract
Danville-based Watchfire Signs has been awarded a nationwide contract to provide scoreboards to local schools across the country. The contract is with Equalis Group, which is a cooperative purchasing ...
Michelle Mitchell Jan 28, 2021

Unemployment Rate Increases in the Area
After several months of an ever-improving unemployment rate, both Danville and Vermilion County saw those streaks end last month. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports that Danville a...
Michelle Mitchell Jan 28, 2021

Local Vaccinations Moving Along Despite Complicating Factors
Vermilion County Health Department Administrator Doug Toole says both county residents and his staff have expressed frustrations with the vaccination process, but he says the clinics continue to move ...
Michelle Mitchell Jan 28, 2021







