Today's News

For Vandalia residents anxious to clean out their garages, basements and other storage areas, next week is the time to do it.
Next Monday through Friday is Cleanup Week in Vandalia, with customers of Doty Sanitation being allowed to get rid of additional items along with their regular trash.
The city’s guidelines for Cleanup Week are:
• Unwanted items are to be placed alongside regular trash on residents’ normal trash pickup days.

The city of Vandalia has been hoping that the state would help fund the construction of a sidewalk linking Vandalia Community High School and Lincoln Loop walking path with the Family YMCA and Kaskaskia College campus.
On Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Transportation announced that it would.
That sidewalk along Fillmore Street is among the 39 projects being funded through IDOT’s Safe Routes to School program.
Of the $5.5 million being awarded through the program, $200,000 has been set aside for construction of that sidewalk.

After hearing that they would no longer be making recommendations before voting on Tax Increment Financing grants, Vandalia’s aldermen received information on TIF grant application for a project that was initially approved a year ago.
Justin Durbin, who was awarded a $48,600, 100-percent grant in April of last year for work on exterior walls of his building at 101 S. Fifth St., has submitted an amended grant.

It wasn’t that Glenn Gurtner was opposed to the county spending about quarter of a million dollars on new voting equipment. It’s just that the county board member wanted more information.
So, a week after County Clerk and Recorder Vicky Conder and her chief deputy, Jessica Barker, explained that the county had not choice but to buy the equipment, board member Jenny Waggoner also explained the need for the purchase.