Category Archives: Weekends on WMCI

WYSE Regional Competition held at Lake Land College
What happens when you take some of the most brilliant minds from area high schools and put them under one roof? Nothing other than an academic face off, where teams are pitted against each other in ei...
Renee Fonner Feb 08, 2018 St. Anthony – Division 300 First place. St. Anthony won the 300 Division at the WYSE Team event recently held at Lake Land College. Photo submitted by Lake Lake College.

Olympic Flag Bearer Chosen
Olympic Flag Bearer Chosen (Pyeongchang, South Korea) -- A female luger from Upstate New York will be the country's flag bearer in South Korea for the opening ceremony. Erin Hamlin was chosen by her p...
Renee Fonner Feb 08, 2018

Photo Op with those "Magical" Mice
Coles County Relay for Life invites you to meet those "magical" mice at Crave Coffee and Caf (in Mattoon) on Monday, February 19th (Presidents' Day) from 11am to 2pm. Characters are available for pict...
Renee Fonner Feb 07, 2018

Hoenes Joins Carle in Tuscola
Casey Hoenes, NP, joins Carle in Family Medicine in Tuscola. He received his Master of Science in Nursing from Illinois State University, Normal, Ill., 2017, his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from La...
Renee Fonner Feb 07, 2018 Casey Hoenes, NP. Photo submitted by Carle.

Lincoln Log Cabin Celebrates Our 16th President’s Birthday Saturday Feb. 10
LERNA, IL -Celebrate the birth of Abraham Lincoln at Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site on Saturday, February 10 with two special activities: The Saturday Story Series at 10:30 a.m. features the ch...
Renee Fonner Feb 06, 2018

Lake Land College now accepting verification and acceptance forms for Presidential Scholarships
Lake Land College is pleased to guarantee a Presidential Scholarship to all eligible in-district high school graduates who have demonstrated outstanding academic performance. The scholarship covers th...
Renee Fonner Feb 06, 2018

Gronkowski's Home Burglarized While New England Plays In Super Bowl
Gronkowski's Home Burglarized While New England Plays In Super Bowl (Foxboro, MA) -- Thieves robbed the home of New England's Rob Gronkowski as he tried to rally his team to a win in Sunday's Super Bo...
Renee Fonner Feb 06, 2018 Owen Byrne / CC

"Dancing With The Stars" Bus Involved In Massive Pile-Up
"Dancing With The Stars" Bus Involved In Massive Pile-Up (Ames, IA) -- Authorities in Iowa say a "Dancing with the Stars" tour bus was involved in a massive and fatal pile-up on Interstate 80 near Ame...
Renee Fonner Feb 06, 2018

Norovirus Outbreak Sidelines 1200 Olympics Security Staffers
Norovirus Outbreak Sidelines 1200 Olympics Security Staffers (Pyeongchang, South Korea) -- Organizers of the South Korea Winter Olympics that open Friday are scrambling as fears about norovirus has si...
Renee Fonner Feb 06, 2018

NWS: Hazardous Weather Outlook for Part of our Listening Area
This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Cass-Champaign-Christian-Coles-De Witt-Douglas-Edgar-Logan-Macon-Mason-Menard-Morgan-Moultrie-Piatt-Sangamon-Scott and Vermilion counties DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONI...
Renee Fonner Feb 06, 2018


