This is Season 16 at the Effingham Performance Center and the success of the venue was celebrated at Tuesday night’s Effingham City Council meeting. Executive Director Kim Jansen was joined […]
Author: Greg Sapp
The City of Altamont will be hosting a lighting contest. It will be held on Sunday, December 7th. Judging will be the evening of the 7th from 5:30 pm – […]
(THE HOMECOMING COURT: DEREK SCHMIDT, BROOKLYN KINKELAAR, MARA BENITO RODRIGUEZ, MADISON MILLER, KELSEY NIEMERG, ALLIE RUHOLL, SOPHIA CREMENS, JASON KREKE, CODY HEUERMAN) Next week is Homecoming Week at Teutopolis High […]
The Illinois State Fair has announced that country music sensation Ella Langley will take the Grandstand Stage as part of the 2026 Illinois State Fair lineup on Friday, August 21, […]
A vehicle ran into the Catholic Charities building Tuesday morning. The incident occurred around 9:30am. Crews were able to remove the vehicle from the building. Effingham city police, Effingham firefighters […]
Leroy died the night of Monday, December 1
Cecil M. “Bud” Sparling, Jr., 66 of Effingham, passed away on Saturday, November 29, 2025 at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. No public services will be held at this time. […]