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Seven Jr. Vandals qualified for the Illinois Elementary School Association Class AA state track meet, with six girls and one boy making the meet.

Eighth-grader Curtis Gordon qualified in two events, tying his school record of 12 feet in the pole vault to place first at the Pana Sectional, and finishing second in the 110-meter hurdles.

For the girls, three seventh-graders and three eighth-graders will make the trip to the Eastside Centre in East Peoria on Friday and Saturday.

VANDALIA – It was a long time coming.

Junior Megan Godoyo made her first appearance for the Lady Vandals since she was a freshman last Wednesday and immediately showed why she has been missed so much the past two seasons.

Pitching at about 80 percent of her full strength, Godoyo struck out six over five innings of work to put Vandalia in position to take a 2-1 South Central Conference win from Hillsboro.

The city of Vandalia’s legal counsel said it’s his legal opinion that a couple planning to start a restaurant on Vandalia Lake cannot legally do so at their planned location.
About three weeks after residents living in a lake subdivision near the bridge on Ill. Route 185 voiced their objections to the plans of Steve and Latisha Mabry to the county board, they did the same to the city council.

In the fall of 2010, the city of Vandalia received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to locate and study properties that they believed could have possible petroleum contamination.
These particular properties are called “brownfields” and are properties whose redevelopment is hindered because of perceived or real contamination.
To date, five properties have been researched reviewing historical maps, property records and speaking, if possible, with former owners or their families, former neighboring properties, etc.