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Letters to the editor for Wednesday, April 21: Joe Biden, Springfield's school board race and land-use bills Register-Guard Let me this straight ...  Let me get this straight: When Trump announced the pullout of troops, the media announced this was the worst idea ever.   Now that Biden has announced the same thing, that same media thinks this is the greatest idea ever.   In other news, the media is flummoxed how their trustworthiness poll numbers can be so low.   Bob J. Taylor, Eugene  Mason will build on foundation  Voters in Springfield are fortunate to have the...

By Mike Wennmacher Photo Credit: Facebook / Glenwood Football The Glenwood Titans bounced back last week with a 35-7 victory over Decatur MacArthur. In the victory Titans QB Jake Burris continued his stellar spring season by connecting with Austin Bush on three TD passes. A fourth TD pass went to TE Jacob Tedrow. The Titans defense was able to limit the effectiveness of MacArthur QB Brylan Phillips. The Titans will need more of that this week as they take on Springfield High and their QB Rashad Rochelle Rochelle, a Jr., is a verbal commit to Rutgers. Rochelle is dangerous with both hi...

For months, Aliyah Hashmi would watch her mother, Dr. Sayeeda Azra Jabeen, a hospitalist/internist at HSHS St. John's Hospital in Springfield, come home tired and often in tears from 12- to 14-hour shifts taking care of COVID-19 patients. In October, Hashmi's grandfather and Jabeen's father, Zaheer Hussain, died in Bangalore, India. Six months before, he had been treated for COVID-19 and been released from the hospital, though the family believes the virus may have played a part in him having an apparent heart attack. With a double punch to the gut, Hashmi, a freshman at Springfield High Scho...

Suburbanite area crime report Coventry Twp. • Someone broke into a man's house on Hyfield Avenue during the day on Feb. 2. All doors were open and multiple windows were broken. Police reported that glass shattered, indicated the windows had been broken from the inside. The doors did not show signs of forced entry. Furniture was flipped over, mirrors shattered and the home in shambles. The homeowner said the person had broken in through the roof and that a woman had been secretly living in the attic while another woman lived downstairs. The homeowner said he used a cordless drill to unscrew...

Power of poetry shines for Franklin students Angela Bauer, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail Two Franklin High School students will advance to the Illinois State Finals of the Central Illinois Poetry Out Loud competition on March 8.Dusan Petkovic | Getty Images Franklin High School students Thaddeus Bergschneider and Madden Delaney were the top two finishers in the Central Illinois Poetry Out Loud competition earlier this month. Bergschneider recited Mary Carr’s “All This and More” and W.D. Ehrhart’s “Beautiful Wreckage”. Delaney recited Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s “No, ...