Local News

When an alderman brought up a recurring problem at Vandalia Lake at Monday’s city council meeting, the city’s legal counsel suggested one possible way of addressing that problem.
Alderman Jerry Swarm said that when he and his wife went out to the lake area recently, he noticed four-wheelers tracks on the lake dam hillside.
Swarm asked what the city could do to address this issue, because driving vehicles on that hillside compromises the integrity of the dam.

One day after the Vandalia City Council voted to put an electric aggregation on the April 9 consolidated election ballot, the Fayette County Board did the same.
The city council voted on Monday to both put the issue on the ballot and approve an agreement with Good Energy for professional energy consulting services.
Good Energy representative Steve Bryant made a presentation to the city council at its Dec. 17 meeting, and to the county board on Tuesday night.

Museum program is on Sunday, Jan. 13

The third of the Fayette County Museum's Season of Events will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 13, in the Vandalia First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
Dennis A. Stroughmatt of Albion will play traditional music on the fiddle and relate the French history in Illinois and Missouri. This lively medley of music, language, stories and culture – once secreted away in the Missouri Ozarks and other Midwestern French river towns – now has a voice in the modern world.

JULY
• Abigail Hill of St. Elmo was crowned Miss Fayette County Fair 2012 at the Fayette County Fair in Brownstown. Sarah Craig of rural Vandalia was crowned Junior Miss Fayette County, and Shelby Sasse of Brownstown was named the 2012 Little Miss Fayette County.
• After Vandalia aldermen discussed the idea of switching the position of city treasurer from an elected position to an appointed one, City Attorney Jack Johnston drafted a letter laying out the council’s options. The council approved that change later in the month.