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MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — Going to college just got easier for Grace Boylen and her fellow seniors at Brown County High School.

Tracy Family Foundation supporting rural teacher program FacebookTwitterEmail The Mount Sterling-based Tracy Family Foundation has provided a $60,000 gift to support a program designed to attract quality teachers to the region. The foundation in 2018 donated $76,000 to the Great River Teacher Corps at Western Illinois University. The money is used to provide scholarships for education students who will work in west-central Illinois schools after graduation. Students chosen for the program recei...

Caritas grant will fund virtual reality therapy system Jan. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BELLEVILLE — Caritas Family Solutions’ has received a $25,000 grant from the Tracy Family Foundation to purchase and install a virtual reality therapy system at St. John Bosco Children’s Center, a residential treatment facility for children who have experienced profound trauma. The grant will also provide funds to train the clinical manager and five therapists on the new system. The therapy approach ...

Brown to get much needed child care center Darren Iozia, darren.iozia@myjournalcourier.com FacebookTwitterEmail Connie Ward, director of Brown County Early Learning Center, talks about the facility’s amenities, ranging from floor-level windows for children to look out to security cameras in each room, and how the center will be a welcoming place for children across Brown County to learn during a pivotal developmental age.Darren Iozia | Journal-Courier MOUNT STERLING — Motivated by a desire...

MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — Allison Koch and her husband, Nolan, lost day care for their son, Lucas, in March when their provider decided to shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finding day care for him proved to be a challenge, so Koch had to rely on her mother-in-law and sister-in-law to care for him while they were at work. Since March, they have been on several waitlists for a few in-home day cares, but it was difficult to find space as day cares can only have so many young chil...