Abingdon News

Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25 each year, but the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah falls on dates determined by the lunar, not the solar, calendar -- so the dates are different every year.

Knox County Health Department will hold several H1N1 vaccination clinics this Saturday, November 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon throughout the County.

Ryan Halsey is this week's student of the week. He's a junior at Abingdon High School.

The B-PC School Board announced at their Wednesday, Sept. 16 meeting that they have hired Midwest School Consultants to conduct a feasibility study in possibly consolidating the school districts of Bushnell-Prairie City, Avon and Abingdon.

Abingdon High School junior Traci Millsap is the first student in her school's history to have a journalism article posted on the national Web site my.hsj.org. Written her sophomore year, Millsap's article was headlined "Bad Economy Cuts School Budget." The Web site my.hsj.org, sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, was launched in ...

The Bushnell Prairie City Board of Education convened for their monthly meeting Wednesday, Aug.

ABINGDON, Illinois - In a comfortable Abingdon neighborhood, nobody really knew what happened inside the house at 606 W. Monmouth Street.

By this point, a good many school children have uttered the dreaded phrase, "I'm bored!" Four area girls preparing for the upcoming Wrangler Junior High National Finals Rodeo in Gallup, N.M. don't have time to be bored let alone think about being bored.