M ike Starasta from the Lincoln Rotary Club reads to Mrs. Elam's first-graders at Adams School on Friday.

The Clay County Republican Club will feature Dr. Larry Bucshon as a guest speaker at its Monday, Jan.

Nov. 23 Arrests Crystal D. Yates, 26, 819 Silver St., was arrested on a charge of obstructing official business.

The brutal battles fought by union miners in Appalachia are legendary. But Illinois artist and labor historian Greg Boozell has found that Illinois miners and their descendants are mostly unaware of the landmark mine wars fought in their own state - wars not only fought with mine owners, but between union members themselves.