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The Normal Town Council meets remotely, Monday, April 5, 2021. A Normal subdivision plagued by aging water mains and discolored water will see those pipes replaced two years ahead of schedule after the Normal Town Council voted Monday to begin the project next month. The council voted unanimously during its virtual meeting to spend up to $618,000 with Gibson-City based SNC Construction Inc., for the Oakdale Heights subdivision project. Work begins May 1, and should be done by Aug. 31. SNC is the same contractor handling the current Main Street water main replacement project. “If somebody’...

Natural areas can be found on Heartland College campus LENORE SOBOTA, The Pantagraph FacebookTwitterEmail NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — A noisy Canada goose squawked its way across Birky Pond as it chased a possible competitor on a recent Friday in March. “Someone got up on the wrong side of the nest this morning,” observed Janet Beach Davis of the Heartland Community College earth and environmental sciences faculty. Beach Davis has been working on the greenspace at Heartland since construction began on the campus along Raab Road 20 years ago. How many people drive by without noticing the 13-acr...

Normal Town Council meets remotely Monday, March 1, 2021. The Normal Town Council on Monday night adopted a $138.2 million budget for fiscal year 2021 that begins next month. In a year of pandemic, the budget represents the town's strength, said Normal Mayor Chris Koos.  “The world has thrown us some curves, and some tough, tough issues,” said Koos. “Year in, year out, staff in the town of Normal figures out ways to do the best they possibly can, to have the least negative impact on our citizens.”  Also at the four-hour meeting, the council moved forward with several projects using...

The Normal Town Council met remotely, Tuesday, January 19. A project that will create an affordable senior housing development in a renovated building near Fairview Park moved forward Monday, with the Normal Town Council’s support.    During the virtual meeting, the council unanimously approved the amended site plan for 901-905 N. Main St., at what’s known as the old Fairview building. Also Monday, the council accepted an amended plan for a local church to install ground-mounted solar panels; authorized spending $930,000 on a Towanda Avenue bridge project; agreed to refinance some of ...

PEORIA — In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called “the beginning of the end” of the pandemic. The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United States. Early studies have shown that after two doses that are given 21 days apart, the vaccine is 95% ...