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Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, RE: Ameren Superfund Site – Taylorville, Ill. The EPA issued a ‘Stop Work’ order on the Ameren owned site. I received a notification from EPA on 1/9/24 from Sarah Brubaker/EPA: While working towards resolution of Illinois EPA’s comments in the Next Steps Letter dated December 21, 2023, Ameren notified the Illinois EPA that…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, It sickens me to think that this school board could be so deaf to the lamentations of the people in this community. Originally, the money was earmarked for an auditorium. Something desperately needed for the students, and the community. And demolition began with the last school board in an effort to ensure that…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor – In case you missed it, you the American Taxpayer got several Christmas “gifts” from President Biden and his enablers, including Illinois Senators Durbin and Duckworth, Governor Pritzker and Representative Budzinski! Of the many “gifts” he gave the American Taxpayers, I’ll highlight one that as Cousin Eddie would say “it’s the gift that…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, We have reached a new low! We are taking care of illegal immigrants at the cost of billions a dollar a year, just here in Illinois. Yes, billions of dollars a year, plus the unknown cost of the illegal flow of drugs by some of these illegal immigrants and the negative impact on…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, If Taylorville truly aspires to increase its vitality and improve its economy, the community must come together to invest in the town’s most precious asset: our young people. A strategy based on making high-quality schooling the focal point of community development can attract families – who in turn bring dynamism and growth. This…

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Shawnee Mass Transit District Public Notice

Public Notice a) Shawnee Mass Transit District is a general public transportation provider receiving Federal Transit Administration Section 5311 funding. Section 5323 (a)(1) of the FederalMass Transit Act of 1964, as amended, requires that FTA projects to the maximum extent feasible provide for the participation of private mass transportation companies. Private mass transportation companies operating…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I don’t have an understanding of why people who litter think that it is ok to toss trash out of their car windows, letting it land on the side of the road on other people’s property. It can’t be laziness, because it would take zero effort to keep plastic bags in your car for trash…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, The A.M.M.P. Learning Center in Pana is an autism an behavioral center that uses music and movement therap which helps jumpstart the brain. The center is for all ages The website is aamplearningcenter.org, and our Faceboo page is A A M P/amt-The Autism and Movement Project The center is non-profit, and it serves…

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Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Thank you for your tribute to Editor Tom Phillips published int he Sunday, Sept. 4, edition of the Breeze-Courier. Mr. Phillips, of the Pana News-Palladium and Mr. Ed Ovca, Sr., of the Nokomis Free Press-Progress, were the first editors to publish my submissions. The summer of 1962, my dad announced he had accepted…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, To the person who made the accusations against the Langleyville Public Water District in Tuesday’s paper, you should know all the facts before you make all the accusations. The water district owned the community center and was advertised for bids. We only had one person who made a bid. As for the lots,…

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