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Stacy earns Paul Simon award The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has named Jason Stacy the 2021 Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award recipient. EDWARDSVILLE – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Jason Stacy, PhD, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ (CAS) Department of History, has been named the 2021 Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award recipient. The highly competitive award is annually presented by the SIUE Graduate School to a faculty member who has a proven record of combining scholarship and teaching. The r...

PEORIA — The storm system that passed through central Illinois over the weekend left behind record-setting amounts of rain. Officially, 1.61 inches of rain was measured Sunday at Peoria's international airport, according to the National Weather Service office in Lincoln. That total broke a 40-year-old record for local rainfall on a May 9. A total of 1.58 inches was measured on that date in 1981 in Peoria. The record total Sunday followed about three-quarters of an inch of rain measured Saturday at the airport. Rain on Sunday was heavy throughout the Peoria area and most of the Midwest. It c...

By Logan Culwell-Block May 04, 2021   This year's festival will spotlight the best in high school theatre nationwide with productions offered through both primetime streams and an on-demand library. Newsies at Lincoln Southwest High School in Lincoln, Nebraska Silver Hawk Theatre: @lsw_theatre The International Thespian Festival has announced the lineup of high school theatre productions invited to perform for festival attendees, among the highest honor for school theatre programs involved in the International Thespian Society. With the festival set to be ...

Meeting scheduled to discuss natural disasters Patrick Stout, Voice Correspondent MACOMB — The McDonough County Emergency Services and Disaster Assistance Agency has scheduled a multi-hazards mitigation planning committee meeting for Wednesday, May 19 at 2 p.m. in the ESDA operations center at 740 West University Drive on the campus of Western Illinois University. ESDA Director Edgar Rodriguez said this week that this will be the second time the committee has come together to voice opinions on the mitigation of natural hazards. "The frequency and damages caused by severe storms and other n...

Original Music……………Mike Borgia Dan Purcell (Lou) is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. His past credits include Freddy in the original “Kiss the Fortune Teller”, Darryl in the original “The Statement”, Rick and The Hustler in “Six Degrees of Separation”, multiple roles in “The Death of a Miner”, Charles in “As You Like It”, and the opera “La Traviata”. Dan is immensely thankful for his family's health throughout the pandemic, as well as for the opportunity to return to theatre work. Elisa Tarquinio (Ringer): Theater for the New ...