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The Fayette County Board last Thursday rejected a couple’s request for a liquor license for a steak house they plan to operate on Vandalia Lake.
But later, in explaining why they voted against the request, some board members said they might vote differently if the request comes before them again.
After several people expressed how that business would affect them, the board voted 10-4 to not approve a request from Steve and Latisha Mabry for Class A license.

The city of Vandalia has announced that Police Chief Larry Eason has asked that he not be reappointed to the post of chief when his current contract expires on May 6.

Eason has cited medical issues as his reason for not seeking reappointment by the mayor and city council.

Gottman said, "Larry came to work for the city in an interim capacity in March of 2007 and took over the position full-time in July of the same year.

Man dies from gunshot wound

A rural Ramsey man died on Monday from a single gunshot wound, according to Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen.
Bowen pronounced the man, 62-year-old Kenneth Evans, dead at the scene, and said that the gunshot wound was apparently self-inflicted.
Bowen is continuing to investigate the death.

Band Boosters accept items for sale

The Vandalia Band Boosters are asking for items to be donated for a rummage sale it will hold on Saturday, April 20, at the Vandalia Moose Lodge.

A Farina man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex crimes.
At the end of March, Fayette County Resident Circuit Judge S. Gene Schwarm sentenced Ryan E. Mulvaney on four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
Mulvaney was found guilty of those four counts, each a Class 2 felony, in a two-day jury trial that was completed on Nov. 17 of last year.
Schwarm ordered that two 12-year sentences and one six-year sentence were to be served consecutively, and that a third 12-year sentence was to be served concurrently.