Beecher City News

The Effingham County CEO class will be hosting a Titanic theme dinner on Sunday evening, January 17, beginning at 5:30 PM at the Firefly Grill in Effingham.

One person was injured in a three-vehicle crash in Effingham County at 3:25pm Thursday.

Beecher City resident Kevin McWhorter has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term after pleading guilty to methamphetamine production charges.

A Wichita, Kansas-area man working on railroad crossings in the area near Beecher City was injured this afternoon and has been taken for treatment.

Two local communities won first place awards in this year's Governor's Home Town Awards competition.

The Altamont Board of Education Monday accepted a letter of retirement from Grade School Principal Michael Gill as of the end of the current school year.A The move means both building principals at Altamont will be leaving after this school year, since high school principal Jim Strange had announced his retirement earlier and his successor has ...

Traffic was slowed on Interstate 69 in DeKalb County on Monday afternoon after a crash between a car and a tractor-trailer rig, according to Indiana State Police.

St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital has appointed three new members to the Friends of St.

The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced that repairs to the Union Pacific railroad crossings in Moultrie, Shelby, Effingham, and Fayette counties will take place over the next few weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Don Riley of Beecher City will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house Saturday, July 25, at Beecher City Kluthe Center from 1 to 3 p.m. Don Riley and Wilma Larimore were married July 22, 1959, at First Christian Church of Cowden.

Lynnette Sharp of Effingham and Raoul Trahan of Effingham announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.

Area pastor Fr. Sylvano Pera had the answer for who was praying for all of the rains the area received this spring.A He said it was "EJ Water!" Father offered the quip at today's groundbreaking ceremony for a new water treatment plant for EJ Water Cooperative.A He also offered the invocation and the dedicatory prayer at the ceremony, which took ...

Annon Mahaffey of Beecher City, Katie Pieper of Stewardson and Zach Letizia of Neoga represented Shelby Electric Cooperative in Washington, D.C., during the annual "Youth to Washington" Tour, June 12-19. This event, sponsored by the electric and telephone cooperatives of Illinois, began 50 years ago to introduce rural youths to our democratic form ...

One local rodeo competitor qualified for the nationals during the Illinois High School Rodeo Association State Finals over the weekend at Altamont.