Category Archives: Weekends on WMCI

The Mattoon High School Dance Team is hosting the "Start the Beat" dance competition this Saturday (10/22) starting at 8:45 a.m. at the high school. Food and drinks will be available, and many vendors...

Would you like to meet a real life author of a young adult book? Join us Wednesday, October 26, at 4:00 in the Zone. Jeri Baird, former resident of Charleston, is the author of the new young adult boo...

Love nature and Halloween?! If so, no event is better to be a volunteer for than Douglas-Hart Nature Center's annual Haunted Hike stretching out over a a two night event; Friday, October 28th and Satu...

Get your Binga on this weekend! The Windsor High School Class of 2017 invites you to their school Saturday night, October 22nd, for a Longaberger Binga Fundraiser! Doors will open at 5 PM and games ge...

A memorial service for an EIU student who died last week will be held tonight (Tuesday, October 18). 19-year-old Tyler Behnke, a sophomore from Oswego, died October 10th at the Pi Kappa Alpha House. T...

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Announces Nominees The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announcing the nominees for its Class of 2017. There are 19 of them. Some of the acts included on the list revealed ...

A familiar face will take on a new role at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library. Kattie Livingston, who has been serving in a number of roles for 14 years, has been named library director. According...

Eastern Illinois University will launch a new graduate program next year. The university says they will begin offering a Master of Science in Cybersecurity beginning in the fall of 2017. EIU spokesper...

According to WCIA online, yesterday, October 15 2016, in Urbana Police are looking for a suspect shooter that fired several shots on a residential street in broad daylight. Silver Street and Vawter St...

The Illinois State Police District 12 report that earlier this morning around 1 am a fatal accident occured in Kell ,Marion County, that the car was engulfed in flames and the driver pronounced dead o...