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  • City of Effingham Sets Trick-or-Treat Date
  • Motor Vehicle Crash leads to fatality near Dewey, IL
  • Big Crowd on Hand at Greg Sapp’s Retirement Party
  • HSHS Hospital Seeking Participants for Community Health Survey
  • Effingham Women of Today Observe International Day of Service
  • Lake Land College Broadcasting Club Holding Campus Food Drive

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  • Junior High Cross Country Sectionals Results From Area Teams
  • South Central Wins NTC Baseball Tournament Championship
  • Windsor/Stew-Stras Captures Pana Volleyball Tourney Title, T-town Wins Olney F/S Tourney
  • Shoes Finish Fifth At Class 1A State Boys Golf Tourney, Bulldogs Take Sixth In Class 2A, Phillips Sixth, Ochs Seventh In Girls State
  • St. Anthony Earns First Soccer Win Of Season
  • Hearts Hold Off Mattoon, Win Apollo Finale, Strengthen Playoff Hopes

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Community Calendar

  • October 10, 2026
    Harvest of Hope for Mae’s Miracle
  • October 12, 2026
    Red Cross Blood Drives in October
  • October 12, 2026
    Effingham Public Library Events
  • October 13, 2026
    Enduring Freedom Ministries – October Distributions
  • October 13, 2026
    Grief Support Group Meeting

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Breast cancer awareness month. Rogers Home Appliance is raffling off a Speed Queen washer and electric dryer. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. All proceeds will be divided between The Whoo Hoo Sisterhood (The Jolene Arend Giving Fund), St. Anthony Women's Wellness Center, and Crossroads Cancer Center. Drawing will be held on Friday, November 6th. Buy tickets at our locations.

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