Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

The Mattoon Public Library has added evening story time for parents and kids to the early morning session. It's every Thursday at 5:30. They sing a few songs, read a story or two, and do crafts that p...

The Lake Land College Community Choir invites you to its annual spring concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 26th in the Lake Land College Theater. The concert begins with a celebration of spring. The ch...

Spring clean-up for Dodge Grove Cemetery in Mattoon will be March 27th through 31st. Please remove items from the ground around headstones. Vases and shepherd hooks do not need to be removed.

The annual East Central Illinois Heart Walk will be held April 29th at Lake Land College. This year's honorary chairman is Zale Walk, the soon-to-be one-year-old son of Vince and Katie Walk, whose lif...

The first meeting for the 7th annual Mattoon To Peoria St. Jude Run will be March 20th at 6:30 at the Salvation Army in Mattoon. This year's run will be August 4th and 5th. You don't have to be from M...

The annual Rural-Urban Luncheon, sponsored by the Mattoon and Charleston Rotary Clubs, will be held March 28th at the LifeSpan Center. Ag technologist Chad Colby will be the featured speaker. Please R...

The Lake Land College Community Choir invites the community to attend its annual spring concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 26 in the Lake Land College Theater. The concert begins with a celebration of...

Following a record setting day of ticket sales, single seats remain for the Garth Brooks World Tour shows scheduled for Friday, April 28 and Sunday, April 30. Tickets for both shows scheduled for Satu...

According to a report in the USA Today, JC Penney has announced the 138 stores that will be closed. According to the USA Today report most stores will begin liquidation the middle of April and close i...

Today: Baseball: Mattoon hosts Sullivan, Windsor/Stew-Stras vs. Okaw Valley, Cumberland plays Casey-Westfield, Pana goes to Greenville, Brownstown/St. Elmo @ Hillsboro, Tuscola plays Goreville, EIU is...