A January episode of NBC’s Dateline television program interviewed a local Event Planner about the Effingham connection to their story. Patty Greene, from the Thelma Keller Convention Center, was familiar with many […]
Marilyn “Biff” Joy Sproat, age 92, of the Lutheran Care Center, Altamont, Illinois, formerly of St. Elmo, passed away at 12:06 p.m. on Wednesday February 25, 2026, at HSHS St. […]
Ruth Whitley, 89, of Effingham, IL passed away on February 25, 2026, surrounded by her family. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at Johnson […]
10 additional criminal charges have been filed against Montrose resident Dakota “Cody” Czerwonka. The 32-year-old Czerwonka had been arrested in January for grooming and sexual exploitation of a child. The […]
BY MILLIE LANGE OLNEY — The Teutopolis girls basketball machine keeps rolling along. The latest opponent . . . Paris by a 40-30 count. Coach Laurie Thompson’s crew went into […]
BY MILLIE LANGE WAYNE CITY — So close . . . Brownstown/St. Elmo’s hopes of a berth in the Class 1A Arcola Super-Sectional came to a close Thursday evening. The […]
A district judge sentenced an Olney man to 28 years in federal prison after he admitted to producing child pornography of a 13-year-old minor. Joseph Jared St. Pierre, 37, pleaded […]