Category Archives: Overnights

The LifeSpan Volunteer Program will host a Jonah Fish Fry June 2nd from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Tickets are $8.00 for adults, $5.00 for kids 5-10 years of age. Doors will open at 4:30, and drive-thru will be a...

Dart for the Heart, a 5K run and walk to benefit Zale Walk and his family, will be held August 26th starting at 7:00 a.m. at the original Burger King in Mattoon. Register by August 12th for $25.00 and...

(Chicago, IL) -- The Illinois House has passed a bill to raise the state's minimum wage. The bill would scale up the minimum to 15-dollars-an-hour by 2022. State Representative Will Guzzardi of Chicag...

Tonight Effingham Softball took on Rochester in the Class 3A Sectional. The first three innings saw both teams remain scoreless, until Rochester scored four runs in the 4th. By Inning 6, Effingham had...

One is sent to the hospital after a personal injury crash along I-57, southbound, at milepost 253 during the morning hours of Tuesday, May 30th. According to preliminary details from Illinois State Po...

SPRINGFIELD -The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is reporting the first mosquitoes to test positive for West Nile virus in Illinois for 2017. Madison County Health Department staff collect...

The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) announced on May 26, 2017, that the IHSA Bass Fishing State Finals will be conducted on Friday and Saturday, June 23-24 on Carlyle Lake in Carlyle. The Stat...

Mattoon's weekly farmer's market has been moved from Peterson Park to Rural King. Friday, June 2nd is opening day, and the market will be open every Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. though September...

Applications for those interested in attending Eastern Illinois University in the next school years will begin being accepted on June 1st. The $30 dollar application fee will be waived for all freshme...

The annual Mattoon Exchange Club's Youth Scholarship Golf Tournament is coming up on Friday, June 3rd. There will be flights for men, women, and youth. Adult entry fee is $50 and students golf for fre...