Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

Charleston Carnegie Public Library's monthly Lego My Library will be on Wednesday, March 21, at 4:00-5:15pm in Rotary Room A. This free event is for children who are in grades K-8 and who no longer pu...

The Effingham VFW will have a meal to benefit Catholic Charities Food Pantry and Centenary Methodist Church Food Box on March 16th. The menu includes fish, or chicken fried steak, with green beans, ma...

A Mardi Gras gala to benefit the Effingham County Humane Society will be held at the Effingham Event Center, formerly the KC Hall, March 23rd starting at 5:30 p.m. The Cajun buffet will feature jambal...

The Beecher City Tri-County volunteer firefighters will have a pancake and whole hog sausage breakfast this Saturday (3/10) from 6:30-10:00 a.m. at the station on East Poplar. Meals are $6.00 for adul...

April 1st is the deadline to apply for Effingham Rotary Club scholarships. The club will be awarding two $1,000 scholarships to college-bound seniors, one from Effingham High School, and one from St. ...

The kids' chess club will meet from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and adult chess club will meet from 1:00-2:00 p.m. on March 31st at the Mattoon Public Library. If you love to play, or would like to lear...

The inaugural CARE game at Lantz Arena was a huge success. According to EIU Athletics, the event raised more than $10,000 which was donated to the Sarah Bush Lincoln Regional Cancer Center. Area schoo...

Cumberland's Tyson Magee and Zach Wolke, Tri-County's Dylan Campbell, and Martinsville's Dalton Rollings are unanimous selections for the all-LOVC Southeast Division basketball team. Also making first...

8th grade regional volleyball: Mattoon takes on Monticello, Effingham faces Mt. Zion, Shiloh vs. Chrisman Scottland, Pana plays Auburn, Vandalia against Girard North Mac

The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for Champaign-Christian-Clark-Clay-Coles-Cumberland-De Witt-Douglas-Edgar-Effingham-Jasper-Logan-Macon-McLean-Menard-Moultrie-Piatt-...