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Obstructing charge alleges phone thrown into river

A Vandalia man has been charged with throwing the cell phone of a recently deceased man into the Kaskaskia River.
The office of Fayette County State’s Attorney Joshua Morrison last Wednesday filed information charging Nicholas C. Slagle, 27, 1907 W. Fillmore St., with obstruction of justice and obstructing a peace officer.

County switches IT service providers

A good part of last Thursday’s Fayette
County Board meeting was spent explaining
to board members the reason for switching
information technology service businesses,
and doing so at a higher cost.
The board approved an agreement with
Nathan Dothager of Dothager Independent
IT Consulting of Effingham after hearing
why Dothager was being recommended.
Assistant State’s Attorney Brenda Mathis
said that the change was being recommended
because, “Several department heads got

Calendar

Thursday, April 19

✔ The Fayette County Cancer Fund will hold its second annual Survivor Dinner at the Vandalia Moose Lodge. The meal is at 6 p.m. The beef raffle drawing will be held.

Friday, April 20

✔ Bingo is held at Crawford-Hale American Legion Post 95 home. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and bingo begins at 7 p.m.
✔ A Nar-Anon meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at Northside Christian Church, 1845 W. Jackson St., Vandalia.

Monday, April 23

Banks of the Okaw

This week's photo: This brother and sister were both born and raised in Vandalia. She now lives south of Brownstown and he lives in Altamont.

Foutch returns for second Lenten Luncheon

Last year, during the Lenten Luncheons in Vandalia, Lora Foutch spoke at the United Methodist Church, sharing a message that was sincere and from her heart.

Coroner's Report

For 13 weeks, April 1
• Medico-legal death investigations: 15 total –12 deaths from natural processes and three from accidents. No homicides, suicides or cases with undetermined manners of death
• Autopsies: Five performed, with toxicology samples tested (three were not Fayette County residents).

City, Grubaugh at odds over downtown wall

Two weeks after some

Vandalia aldermen said they

wanted to look at alternatives

to Dennis Grubaugh’s $220,000

plan to address the exterior wall

on one of his buildings, they

presented such an alternative.

But Grubaugh said he doesn’t

like it.
 

National Drug Take Back Day is next Saturday

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, April 28, and the Vandalia Police Department will be distributing flyers reminding residents that old prescription drugs can be dropped off at the police station.
A locked, slotted box in the station lobby is available for drop-off; drugs can be put in, but not taken out.
Anyone unable to drop off drugs can call the National Road Interpretive Center in Vandalia, 283-9380, for pickup by a Vandalia Woman’s Club member between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. next Saturday.

Vandalia KC Open House
School district gets more state funds

In her first month as Vandalia’s
superintendent of schools, Dr. Jennifer
Garrison is seeing her lobbying efforts in
recent years pay off.
At Tuesday’s Vandalia Board of
Education meeting on Tuesday, District
Business Manager Lori Meseke reported
that the district is receiving $546,000 in new
funds from the state this year.
Those new funds are arriving in six
payments through the end of June, and are
possible as a result of lobbying efforts by