Today's News

In last week’s Mystery Banks Photo was: Jean Carson Hall.
Identifying her was: Kathleen Hall.
This week’s Scrambler: eht ufro osroctnernes fo tarhcreac no chwih stih intano si lubti rae: vaitintiie, goimaintani, aidiliviytnud nda ecenidenpned.
Can you unscramble it? If so, call The Leader-Union, 283-3374, by 5 p.m. next Monday.

During Fire Prevention Week, the Brownstown Fire Department invited students from Brownstown Elementary School to visit the first station.

There, Brownstown firemen taught them about fire safety, explained the job that they do and helped the students have a little fun.
 

City officials learned on Monday night that they can no longer hope for a simple and inexpensive fix to its raw water intake on the Kaskaskia River.
Alderman Terry Beesley, chairman of the city council’s water and sewer committee, passed on the bad news after months of working on the project.
Beesley has been in regular contact with a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representative who agreed to look into the problems with the intake.

One day after the Vandalia teachers’ union ratified a contract, the Vandalia Board of Education last Wednesday approved a three-year pact that gives teachers a raise in the second and third years of the contract, but also clarifies the district’s option to make reduction-in-force personnel cuts.
The action came during a special meeting of the school board that lasted only five minutes.