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Roxana educator named Superintendent of the Year Dylan Suttles, dylan.suttles@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail Kreutztrager ROXANA — Roxana School District Superintendent Debra Kreutztrager has named the 2020 Illinois Principals Association Superintendent of the Year for the Southwest region. Kreutztrager said she was called in for an emergency over Google Meets. She was then greeted by the school administration team, directors and Roxana Police Chief Will Cunningham. Kreutztrager said ...

MURPHYSBORO — As COVID-19 case positivity rates and hospitalizations remain high in Southern Illinois, Jackson County officials are trying to find ways to help the local health department enforce statewide virus mitigation efforts. The Jackson County Board’s Legislative and Public Safety Committee on Tuesday approved a resolution that would give support to the Jackson County Health Department in its efforts to enforce COVID-19 mitigation restrictions ordered by the Illinois Depa...

CARBONDALE — COVID-19 has made it hard to be a business owner, but planning a business in the midst of a pandemic can be even more challenging, as a group of Jackson County high-schoolers found out. The Jackson County CEO program teams up high school students from around the county to take a special, year-long class offered in collaboration with AlterEgo Marketing to learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship. The first semester is learning soft skills, things like networking and other per...

TheBBQAllstars.com Launches Offering Barbecue Lovers a Chance to Taste and Compare their Favorite Pitmaster’s Barbecue Share Article Award-winning Pitmasters Melissa Cookston, Myron Mixon, Tuffy Stone, Malcom Reed, Heath Riles, and Mike Mills and Amy Mills Offer Barbecue Favorites Available at TheBBQAllstars.com. "We thought this would be a good way to combine all of our strengths while bringing barbecue lovers what they really want – a chance to sit down with six different championship rib...

Youre looking at murphysboro, illinois, where president trump will take the stage any minute. earlier today at a rally in indianapolis, the president addressed the shooting in pittsburgh. >> anti-semitism and the widespread persecution of jews represents one of the ugliest and darkest features of human history. the vial hate-filled poison of anti-semitism must be condemned and confronted everywhere and anywhere it appears. there must be no tolerance for anti-semitism in america or for any form o...

Bennett. hes following the president in murphysboro, illinois. what is the president doing in the middle of all of this? >> there was a question as to whether or not the president was going to even show up here. for a time today the president wondered allowed whether he may cancel this rally. he ultimately decided to show up here, and i can tell you the people here will be happy to see him, when we drove up, the line of trump supporters stretched about some 300 yards. the thing were waiting to s...

Danny colson, the former fbi assistant director. its been a busy day for president trump. the president traveling to indiana earlier. right now hes holding a rally in southern illinois as he campaigns for congressman mike boss. ellison is in murphysboro. president trump: we must stand with our jewish brothers and sister to defeat anti-semitism and vanquish hate. the jews throughout history have gone through a lot. those seeking their destruction, well seek their destruction.

Murphysboro, illinois. that is where our colleague geoff bennett is standing by in anticipation of the president at that rally. notably the president said hes making comments tonight and spoke about he would change his tone for tonight but he did not change his tone from what is typically trump, that you have coined his twitter trump. the trump that is not on the teleprompter. he goes and blames at media for the tone in this country. >> and i think when he attacks the media, alex, what hes doing...

Working? >> reporter: thats the big question, fred. the president going in a route reminiscent of the 2016 presidential campaign, not just on messaging. ill get to that in a second. also with the amount of events on this schedule. look at this calendar. in the month of october, president trump is 15 planned campaign rallies. so far. just next week, hes got four. hes planning one in texas on monday. wisconsin and north carolina later in the week. and just announce the this afternoon, another rall...

And almost as many as they have in any foreign city in nashville. so those people voted in the iraqi elections here. but we have all kinds of people, a very diverse antioch. its the southern southeast section of nashville. its between nashville -- its in the city of nashville, just before you go into murphysboro, where the middle tennessee state university is. its right next to the lake. this is an old, established church, apparently. im not familiar with the church, persay, but an old establish...