Crimestoppers is offering a reward for the person or persons who stole an ATV, described as a 2013 Green Polaris Ranger, from the Greg Burgess residence in Golden Gate. If you have any information about this, or any other crime, call or text crimestoppers at 842-9777. 11 people were recently booked into the Wayne County Jail: On 8/14 the Wayne County Sheriff's Office booked Andrew Noel Gregory on charges of Possession of Methamphetamine, Obstructing Justice, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Police Officer, and Abby N. Koontz on a charge of Violation of an Order of Protection. On 8/15 Wayne County booked Matthew A Beck on a Failure to Appear Warrant for Resisting or Obstructing a Peace Officer, and a Failure to Appear Warrant for Driving with License Suspended or Revoked. On 8/16 Wayne County booked Kayland D. Coach on an unspecified Arrest Warrant out of St. Louis, Mo; FPD booked Tracy L. Drawhorn on an Arrest Warrant for Disorderly Conduct, and an Arrest Warrant for Criminal Damage to Property $500 or less. On 8/17 Wayne County booked Harry H. Sapper on a Failure to Appear Warrant for Improper Lane Usage – laned roadways, and a Failure to Appear Warrant for Possession of Methamphetamine. On 8/18 Wayne County Sheriff's booked Courtney J Flexter on an Unspecified Warrant for Obstructing Justice. On 8/19 Illinois State Police booked Akeem S Williams for Aggravated Unlawful Use of Weapon, and Keandre L Bush on a charge of Aggravated Unlawful Use of Weapon. And Wayne County booked Christopher Kennedy on an Arrest Warrant for Disorderly Conduct, and Arrest Warrant for Theft, and a charge of Possession of Methamphetamine. The public is invited to come out to southwest park and support the Fairfield Lady Colts and the Jasper-Geff Lady Polecats Softball Splash Game today at 4:30 for their Make a Difference Day fundraiser! The players will be dressed up in their pool/luau themed attire. They will be selling 50/50 raffle tickets to help raise funds for the Fairfield City Pool Splash Pad. The drawing will be held at the conclusion of the softball game. Winners need not be present to win. The City of Grayville Police Committee will hold their next meeting on Friday, August 26th at 10:30 a.m. at Grayville City Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to enter executive session for the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of employees of the Police Department, and collective negation matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. The Girl Scouts of America will be holding sign ups for Fairfield Girl Scouts on Sunday, August 28th from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. at Leo French Park Possum Trot Shelter. The first five families to sign their girl(s) up will receive a free box of Girl Scout Cookies. In addition, all new girls that register at this event will be entered into a drawing for a free Girl Scout Vest and all girls that register (new & current members) will be entered into a drawing to win one of two gift baskets. If you are unable to make this event and would like to sign your child up for Girl Scouts, please contact Rebekah at 599-1904 Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford will provide a presentation on the impacts of weather and climate on Illinois agriculture during Illinois Farm Bureau's final Nutrient Stewardship Field Day of the year in Wayne County today. Thursday's field day involves a nutrient loss inhibitor demonstration plot. Ford also plans to take questions at the event. The Wayne County Nutrient Stewardship field day is at the Fred Blessing Farm, 3 Miles North of Fairfield on Enterprise Road and west at County Road 2200 N. For more information on the Nutrient Stewardship Field Days, visit www.ilfb.org/fielddays The 30th Annual Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour is wrapping up its four-day visit of more than 3,200 corn and soybean fields across the seven states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, and South Dakota today. Those taking part in the survey not only pull samples from each field, but they also scout the field crop conditions and yield potential of each field. The goal of the tour is to provide the ag industry and farmers with accurate growing season information about likely yields. Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White has awarded $870,000 in FY22 Live and Learn Construction Grants to 18 public libraries to help pay for essential capital improvements. Of the 18 libraries awarded, two were in the downstate region. Carrier Mills-Stonefort Public Library District have received $28,436 for the installation of a new curbside book drop, and ADA-compliant circulation desk, energy efficient lighting and electrical wiring upgrades, and Flora Public Library received $35,000 for a roof replacement. Secretary White stated he is pleased to award these grants to help maintain our public libraries so that they remain open and the best information resource available to residents. "Many of our public libraries simple do not have sufficient funds to pay for these structural improvements on their own. I am proud to provide this necessary support," said White. The candidates for Illinois governor faced questioning about their agriculture-related policies Wednesday on a McLean County farm. Gov. JB Pritzker's billed himself as the state's "chief marketer." His challenger, state Sen. Darren Bailey told the room full of farmers that Illinois was in a "dire situation" that needed the "grit of a farmer" to rectify it. The Illinois Agricultural Legislative Roundtable, put together by a coalition of more than 100 of the state's agriculture stakeholders, took place at Schuler Farms in Lexington. The event was moderated by Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert Jr. Pritzker highlighted his administration's wide-ranging infrastructure bill, defended his signature on a massive decarbonization bill and highlighted the progress toward fiscal stability the state has seen in his time in office. Bailey, however, dismissed the energy bill as a collection of "virtue signals" and said Illinois was starting to look like Baghdad. That comment was made in reference to the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, signed into law by Pritzker last year, which aims to put 1 million electric vehicles on state roads by 2030 and take carbon-emitting energy generators offline in the state by 2045, and seeks to accomplish that by massive ratepayer subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and forced closure of fossil fuel plants over the next two decades. Bailey said that law has led to a threat of brownouts in areas of downstate Illinois that are part of the MISO regional transmission organization that purchases energy capacity for 15 states. MISO representatives, however, testified at a committee hearing earlier this year that the early retirement of out-of-state fossil fuel plants, not the passage of CEJA, led to higher downstate energy prices and warnings of potential brownouts. Pritzker pointed the finger for higher downstate energy prices at MISO. The point of contention had to do with eminent domain, a process that allows governments to procure private property while giving the property owner little power other than to negotiate a price. While the climate bill was ultimately stripped of provisions that would have given counties the power to invoke eminent domain for wind and solar projects, the final bill did include a provision that allows a private transmission line to invoke the authority in seven counties. Bailey said he believed the bill forced coal and natural gas offline too early, the eminent domain provision was enough for him to vote against it. While the energy bill was a major topic of conversation, candidates also discussed a number of other issues, from agriculture subsidies to broadband availability in rural areas to infrastructure. Pritzker touted the $45 billion capital infrastructure bill that includes money for broadband infrastructure and all modes of t