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Give back in Canton Submitted News CANTON—This year, local community non-profits are more in need of support than in any other time in the recent years’ past. Now shoppers can give back to the local community and help to reduce single-use plastics by purchasing a special reusable bag at Canton Hy-Vee. The United Way for Spoon River Country has been selected by local Hy-Vee store leadership as the benefiting non-profit in the Canton, Illinois Red Bag Program for the month of August! The Reusable Red “My Heart” Bag Program is designed to give back to the local community with every reusa...

A fascinating look at frontier life with John Regan The McDonough County Voice Our 39th Heritage Days week-end is a good time to look back at the roots of our culture. And that reminds me: almost forty years ago, I wrote a long scholarly article on frontier author John Regan, an immigrant from Scotland who wrote a little-known book about our region called “Backwoods and Prairies; Life, Love, and Liberty as They Are in the Far West” (1850). He did two other editions of that book, in 1852 and 1859, but they are essentially the same memoir by a settler in our area, providing a vivid overview...

Canton Daily Ledger CANTON — About five miles west of Canton, at the corner of Route 9 and 97, sits a new business, Spoon River Junction Winery. It is located in the building that formerly housed Teddy Bear Junction. Bradley Beam, a native of Wee-Ma-Tuk, is the owner/winemaker while Lisa Brown is the tasting room manager. Saturday, they are hosting a grand opening celebration, 4 to 8 p.m., as a way to introduce themselves to the community. Beam said he’s been involved in the world of winery since the late 90s mostly as an academic doing research and extension work. “I love making win...

SIUE, Spoon River offering accelerated nursing degree The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail Sheri Compton-McBride EDWARDSVILLE — The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing (SON) and Spoon River College (SRC) have agreed to offer an accelerated path to a bachelor’s in nursing (BSN) that would allow students to complete their general education courses at SRC, earning an associate’s in nursing, then complete their baccalaureate nursing coursework online through SIUE. Students can take classes at SRC and begin a job in their profession, while working online to obtain their...

“Spoon River Anthology” (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters, a collection of autobiographical verse monologues in epitaph form, was named by Eliot Weinberger as the “century’s most influential book of American poetry” alongside T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land.” A new book on Masters from University of Illinois Press is a good occasion for examining the neglected subject of Spoon River’s Jews. An attorney who fought for workers’ rights, Masters has been described as a “violent antisemite,” possibly in part due to his association with the novelist Theodore Dreiser, who did indeed loath...