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The state Senate Rules committee on Monday advanced a House bill that extends for bars the payment deadline for certain ABC permit renewals. House Bill 4 heads to the Senate floor for a potential vote Tuesday. The Senate is in recess until 4 p.m. HB4 cleared the House by a 116-1 vote on Feb. 4. Because the Senate Commerce and Insurance committee amended the bills language, the House would have to approve those changes. If passed into law, the legislation would become effective retroactively to ...

Social Services Northeast Community Fund will be closed all day Tuesday. The Boys & Girls Club of Decatur will be closed on Tuesday. Dial-A-Ride in Coles and Douglas counties and the LifeSpan Center in Coles County will be closed on Tuesday. Education Millikin University has suspended normal campus operations for Tuesday. Administrative offices will be closed, and all scheduled in-person classes, events, practices and meetings are canceled. Virtual/online classes and meetings will t...

“Watch SB 426 closely and you will see both government and corporate corruption at work. You can almost guarantee the cruise ship industry is behind this and they found a

A widespread power outage in western Christian County has ended, according to officials with Liberty Utilities.

Feb. 16, 1866: The East Tennessee Union Flag reported that the Franklin Academy, located about six miles from Jonesborough, would “resume operations February 15th under the direction of W.G. Gibbs. Boarding can be had near the Academy at $3 per week.” “Tuition fee ranging from $7 to $15, and payable at the close of the five month session.” Jonesborough was spelled that way in 1866. Three dollars in 1866 is now worth about $49.15. Seven dollars is currently worth about $114.6...

COLLIN SPILINEK Fremont Tribune With Fremont seeing temperatures drop to as low as -19 degrees Monday morning, many schools and organizations are temporarily closing. A wind chill warning is in effect by the National Weather Service, as wind chills drop to -30 to -39 degrees Monday night. On Tuesday, the Dodge County Courthouse will close an additional day, according to Dodge County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bob Missel. “Everything that was scheduled for tomorrow is going t...

Just look at these happy little people learning to snap and clap and step to the beat. Each week the children of Logan Community Daycare get a virtual visit from

The City of Key West is going survey crazy, increasingly putting out multiple polls querying residents on a wide variety of subjects. Until recently, the last public survey — on housing — sent to residents was in 2015. But in the new age of COVID-19, with clamp-downs on public meetings, Key West City officials are increasingly turning to written and online surveys to gage interest, support and dissent from residents. There is one active survey currently on the city’s web site to ...

1 of 2 Crews from Illinois are staged at Pike Central High School. An extra 300 line workers, for a total of about 1,600, were brought to the area to help with power restoration from the second ice storm to move through Kentucky Power’s territory. AEP photo Submitted The latest wave of winter storms has left in its wake a devastating number of power outages in our area.  According to Kentucky Power, there are 58,000 AEP customers without power — 4,000 of ...

The sad, sometimes costly saga of late mail continues to dog readers both in Virginia and around the country. Yet another who’s experienced it personally is Herb Detweiler of Roanoke. “You can add my experience to your long list of sabotaged mail,” he wrote me Feb. 9. “I sent the water company a check for $38.19 on December 28. It never cleared and I had to send a check for $82 to cover December and January last month. “Guess what? The December check finally cleared tod...