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Today's News

  • Results of art shows at Artworks Gallery are announced

    The annual Amateur Town & Country Art Show and the Professional Art Show for 2013 were held June 15-23.

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  • Honor Rolls

    St. Elmo Junior-Senior High
    FOURTH QUARTER
    High Honors
    Seventh grade-Wade Ireland and Olivia Pattillo.
    Eighth grade-Jordan Fedrigon, Sydney Moss and Morgan Walker.
    Freshmen-Jenna Long and Kassandra Viramontes.
    Sophomores-Cameron Gilbert, Elizabeth Guerrero, Jenna Miller and Kennedy Ray.
    Juniors-Tiffany Austin, Haley Fasnacht, Molly Hill and Hannah Magnus.
    Seniors-Tiffany Gilbert, Rachel Lilly, Megan Maxey, Ashlyn Porter and Brock Smith.
    Honors

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  • Kaskaskia College

    Utah concealed carry course
    Kaskaskia College will offer a Utah concealed carry course on Saturday, June 30, from 8 a.m.-noon, at the Kaskaskia College Vandalia Campus.
    The Utah CFP permit training class takes four hours. Firing of a firearm is not required to obtain the non-resident Utah concealed firearm permit. The permit is valid for five years, and training is not required for renewal.

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  • College News

    University of Illinois
    Ryan M. Jones of Ramsey received his doctorate degree in philosophy at the University of Illinois commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 11, which was also his birthday.

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  • KC update given at community engagement

    As Kaskaskia College President Jim Underwood conducted his annual community engagement session on Monday, it was the view out the window behind him that most engaged the small gathering of local participants at the Vandalia Education Center.

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  • The Way We Were

    20 Years Ago

    1993 – The Vandalia City Council approved a pay hike of 3 percent for those city employees who are not covered by unions. Those union employees, in the public works and police departments, received the same pay hikes through union contracts. Those given pay increases by the council include workers in the city clerk’s office.
    The list of candidates for chief of police in Vandalia was narrowed from 32 to seven by city officials.

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  • Banks of the Okaw

    This week’s Mystery Banks Photo: These four brothers and a sister were pictured about 55 years ago.

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  • Positively better on Fourth Street

    With only a few details remaining to be completed, Vandalia residents now can see what the streetscape project will do to improve the appearance of the 100 and 200 blocks of South Fourth Street.
    And it’s significant.
    The new sidewalks are a huge improvement (for cosmetics appearance as well as pedestrian safety), the period lighting ties those blocks into the improvements made on Gallatin Street and the asphalt overlay gives the street a like-new appearance.

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  • Jeremiah, Mary Evans were early settlers

    Jeremiah and Mary "Polly" Larimer Evans of Washington County, Va., were among the first group of settlers, mostly kin, to come to what is now Bear Grove Township in Fayette County before 1820. This was then Bond County.

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  • New VPD officer
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