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Just want to give a huge shout out and thank you to the employees who worked at the Taylorville Cinema Sat. April 5. 3 sell out shows and everyone seemed happy. Enjoyed my 1st sold out movie in 50 years. Just happened to have my son and 3 grandkids visiting from Bradley Il. 6 tickets…
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Morally Bankrupt Sadly America just lost credibility in the world. We just elected a twice convicted criminal, rapist, wholesale adulterer, racist, con man, and pathological liar with a complete lack of moral character or conscience to lead our Nation. Heaven help us. We will get what we asked for… a vindictive government of oligarchy with…
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They don’t want anything What is wrong with the Christian County Board? They don’t want windmills, they don’t want pipelines, and now they don’t want monetary aid for the animal shelter. Are our egos getting in the way?
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Lend a helping hand You covered a story recently on how Officer Phil Deal helped an Alton man get the help he needed as he was walking down Rt. 48. Phil is one of the kindest, most selfless, and genuine individuals you would ever meet. Just this week he noticed a local Christian County farmers…
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A Sincere Thanks Last Monday’s edition was an article about Owaneco Donner Cemetery. I want to thank the gentlemen and the ones that volunteer to keep the cemetery cleaned and taken care of. I help with the Wimmer cemetery at Auburn. I feel it is an honor to help the ones who went before. The…
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Unprofessional When I am out, there is so many speeding down Webster St and all over Taylorville. I never see anyone arrested for speeding in the paper. Shouldn’t our city cops be out checking for speeders? I would hope that all the fines coming in, it could fix our major streets (West Main Cross) to…
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Dear Editor: RE: Gym AC Project School Board Members Dr. Ron Mizer and I voted “no” on the gym air conditioning proposal. Here’s why. The original total cost projection was under $500,000, with COVID grants and booster club donation covering the cost. At Tuesday’s meeting we were unexpectedly told that the low bid was $854,000,…
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How dare him President Biden gave his first campaign speech today. How dare him to say if President Trump wins the election we will lose democracy! What about the 30 states who will try to keep Trump’s name off the election ballots? That’s a loss of democracy right there! Looks to me like Biden will…
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Nepotism Speaking of nepotism didn’t the former board president have a two sisters and her husband working for the district. In defense of the school board they did interview other candidates and narrowed the search down to two candidates. The process has been very transparent. It’s time to move on and support the new superintendent…
Read MoreThank you 1st Responders
Thank you to all our first responders (police, fire, EMS, and ambulance) for being diligent in last night’s storm.
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