News
An agreement between the Village of Norris City and the White County Sheriff’s Department for dispatch services was approved by a unanimous vote Monday night after several weeks of discussions over costs and administration.
Sports
The Carmi-White County middle school volleyball teams continued their winning ways over the past week, as both seventh and eighth grade squads scored victories over both Gallatin County and Olney. With those wins, Ariana Watts’s seventh graders are now 5-5 on the season, while the overall re…
In the sporting world, the term “flag” has always had some sort of negative perception associated with it.
An 11-0 run in the third quarter catapulted Kevin Wolff’s Bulldog basketball team not only to a 57-41 win over Eldorado on Wednesday, February 20, at the Harrisburg regional but also punched a ticket for the maroon and white to their third regional championship game in the past four years.
Obituaries
Rachel M. Short, 29, of Grayville, Illinois, died Tuesday, Mar…
Ruth Crawford, 96, of Carmi, Illinois, died Sunday, February 2…
John E. Schmittler, 81, formerly of Grayville, Illinois, died …
Ruby Fern Duncan, 91, a resident of Carmi, Illinois, passed aw…
Richard Travis, 88, of Norris City, formerly of Centralia, pas…
Opinion
A wise friend once said, “If the answer you’ve been given seems just too easy to be real, that’s probably because it is.”
I read the reports of the death of 85-year-old Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019) who was one of the Western World’s most famous fashion designers. Lagerfeld had his own design company and designed for Chanel and Fendi. Although I had never heard of him until he died as my clothes designer is Levi S…
The first television I saw was displayed in the front window of an appliance store on Main Street in Pawhuska, Oklahoma in 1950. It had a real wood cabinet which swallowed the 9” screen. The picture was a blurry black and white that showed the same Indian Chief test pattern for hours. It jus…
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