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Community organizations that serve senior citizens in Sangamon County recently received a total of $185,191 in grants from the King's Daughters Organization Fund at the...

Former School District 186 Superintendent Diane Rutledge was honored with the 2022 Distinguished Volunteer Award at the Good as Gold ceremony at UIS.

MARCH Friday Night Jazz March 18 and every Friday, 5:30-7:30pm. Sponsored by the Springfield Area Arts Council. No cover charge. Family friendly, free parking and...

An annual art show to raise money for Sangamon County foster children is stepping it up a notch and getting fancy. Fancy Nancy, to be...

The reasons youngsters end up in foster care hardly paint a pretty picture of our society: abuse, neglect, addiction, abandonment. But a Springfield-area nonprofit is...

THIRTY bagfuls of rubbish were collected during a community litter blitz in Keighley town centre.

Scott Reeder: Big donation comes at critical time By Scott Reeder At first, Olivia Hayse received an email from a stranger in Australia that claimed he wanted to donate more than $15,000 to her Springfield employer — but first he needed their bank account and check routing numbers. “We thought this is a scam for sure and just ignored it. More emails came. And they ignored them too. Hayse works for the James Project, a Springfield charity that helps foster children. And she couldn’t imagin...

Commentary: Scott Reeder - Taking Bibles teaching to heart Scott Reeder FacebookTwitterEmail “We thought this is a scam for sure and just ignored it.” More emails came. And they ignored them, too. Hayse works for the James Project, a Springfield charity that helps foster children. And she couldn’t imagine why a couple they didn’t know, in a country on the other side of the planet, would want to send them a big check. But the Aussies became more persistent and kept leaving messages on th...

A Springfield ministry helping foster kids thought someone from Australia was trying to scam them. Instead, they ended up with a donation of $15,800.

Persistent Aussie family donates $15,000 to local foster program before starting one of their own.