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MARS — Borough council honored local Eagle Scout Caden McKinney of Mars Troop 400 for his recent community service project, in which he helped to beautify Garfield Park in a creative way. Last summer,...

Members of the Crawfordsville Middle School A-Team added another great project to its long list of accomplishments. The A-Team collected enough plastic caps to create two memorial benches. The …

BEDFORD - The Bedford Altrusa Club met on Monday, September 11, 2023 at The Mixing Bowl. President Bill Barnes passed out American flags from Fannie Lee to everyone present.  President Barnes asked the group to remember the tragedy of 9/11 and the losses that resulted from that horrible att ...

GREENSBURG – As their yearly service project, members of Cub Scout Pack 574 collected bottle caps to be recycled into a park bench for donation to the Bread of Life

Central Yorks school board is considering a raft of proposed changes related to how much access the public has to teachers lesson plans and teaching materials.

The Evansville, Ind.-based plastic recycling and plastic lumber maker said the company's popular ABC Promise Partnership that turns used caps into new benches also will continue.

Groups that collected plastic caps and lids have been able to trade them as part of their purchase of benches made from recycled plastic.

A local 7th grader is already making a big difference in her community. Over the last few years, Marissa Acotto has gathered hundreds of pounds of plastic material that she recycled and turned into a bench for her past elementary school.

This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald.

April 23, 2021 MACOMB, IL – As two in a series of new park benches were unveiled in Macomb Thursday as part of Earth Day, the project is interwoven with partnerships with several Western Illinois University organizations. Build a Better Block Macomb has spent over a year collecting thousands of pounds of plastic soda bottle caps, donated by local residents. Those caps were then transported to Green Tree Plastics, an Indiana company that recycles them into park benches. A variety of loc...