Today's News

VANDALIA – Final results of the first Vandal summer shootout were not available by press time, but results for a handful of games featuring local teams follow.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Vandals lost in the first round of the tournament to Putnam County, 18-13.

In a game that was close throughout the first half, Putnam County used a 6-0 run to take a lead it would not relinquish just before the halfway mark.

Five Vandals scored in the game, with rising junior Luke Hollinshead leading the team with four points.

While leafing through a back issue of the genealogy quarterly of the Montgomery County Genealogical Society, headquartered in Litchfield, a series of letters written by Jacob Cress and Daniel Ludwick in the 1830s caught my attention.
Addressed to family members still living in  Cabarrus County, N.C., the men, who were brothers-in-law, wrote letters encouraging their family to leave the “old wourn out red fields” of North Carolina and come to Illinois, were the land “is as rich and black as you wold want it.”

20 Years Ago

1993 – A children’s activity area was added to the schedule for the Grande Levée. The area was sponsored by Baroque Folk, and was staffed by members of Vandalia Girl Scout Troop No. 381.
Tonya Cox was valedictorian of the class of 1993 at Vandalia Community High School, and Arpad Walker was salutatorian.
Tiffany Slater was valedictorian of the graduating class at Patoka High School, and Jennifer Britt was salutatorian.

The following marriage licenses have been issued by the office of Fayette County Clerk and Recorder Terri Braun:
Dale Thomas Daugherty
Farina
Courtney Anne Young
Farina
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Leland Joseph McNutt
Vandalia
Amanda Joyce Goodman
Vandalia
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Michael Wayne Miller
Vandalia
Lexis Danielle Perkins
Vandalia
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Gregory Bennett Hunnicutt
Shelbyville
Kathie Anne Franklin
Pana
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Mitchell Lyle Buzzard
St. Elmo