Events
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Bald Eagle Festival and Bird Show
The Bald Eagle Festival and Bird Show will take place on Sunday, January 18, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. Come out to Pere Marquette Lodge & Conference Center, near Grafton, where you can meet our nation’s majestic symbol up close! This crowd favorite festival will have numerous unique vendors, restaurant favorites, drink specials, free […]
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Sunday’s Schedule
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Houston at New England, 2 p.m. (ESPN, ABC) AFC Divisional Playoffs Los Angeles Rams at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. (NBC, Peacock) NFC Divisional Playoffs
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Red Cross Blood Drives in January
American Red Cross Blood Drives in January: January 1, Thursday, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Charleston, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM January 4, Sunday, St Joseph Stringtown Community Club, Stringtown, 6:30 AM - Noon January 5, Monday, Teutopolis Banquet Hall, 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM January 6, Tuesday, Casey United Methodist Church, Noon - 6:00 […]
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Emancipation Proclamation On Display
A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln is now on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, giving the public a rare chance to see the historic document. Lincoln’s proclamation ordered an end to slavery in Southern states that took up arms against the United States during the Civil War, […]
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Annual Tree Sale
The public can call the Effingham County SWCD office (217-347-7107) to have an order form emailed or mailed to them.
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Monday’s Schedule
HIGH SCHOOL Girls Basketball National Trail Conference Tournament Game 1 – Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City vs. South Central, 10 a.m. Game 2 – Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg vs. North Clay, 11:30 a.m. Game 3 – Altamont vs. Dieterich, 1 p.m. Game 4 – Cumberland vs. Neoga, 2:30 p.m. Vandalia Tournament Game 1 -- Effingham vs. Mattoon, 10 a.m. Game 2 […]
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Red Cross Blood Drives in January
American Red Cross Blood Drives in January: January 1, Thursday, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Charleston, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM January 4, Sunday, St Joseph Stringtown Community Club, Stringtown, 6:30 AM - Noon January 5, Monday, Teutopolis Banquet Hall, 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM January 6, Tuesday, Casey United Methodist Church, Noon - 6:00 […]
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Traveling Holocaust Exhibit at EIU
Eastern Illinois University is hosting a Traveling Holocaust Exhibit in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Auschwitz Experience in the Art of Prisoners, a traveling exhibit about the Holocaust, will be displayed in the West Reading Room at Booth Library on the EIU Campus, located at 600 Lincoln Avenue in Charleston, from January 11th […]