Bridgeport News

Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy in Lawrence County.

Some Bridgeport residents are finding themselves in a crappy situation. Hundreds of starlings have taken to the streets at night and they're defacating all over the nieghborhood cars.

It's right out of a Hitchcock movie. Hundreds of birds have invaded Bridgeport and people there are taking drastic measures to get rid of them.

Cars covered in bird droppings are a common sight on a stretch of Parnell Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood, after hundreds of Starlings have started nesting in the trees.

The resignation of Jesse ''Jake'' Middagh from the Lawrence County Board was announced at the board meeting on Wednesday, Sept.

The Bridgeport City Council met in special session on Monday to review interest rates of area financial institutions.

The city of Bridgeport is well on its way to having its own water supply. ''The water pipe is on the ground,'' Mayor Max Schauf told the city council during the Tuesday night meeting.

Mark A. Carrithers, Lawrence County Treasurer, would like to remind taxpayers that there is a drop box for payments located outside the Treasurer's Office at the Courthouse Annex, 1106 Jefferson St., Lawrenceville.

PennTex Resources Illinois Inc., P. O. Box 318, Bridgeport, IL 62417 has submitted to the Division of Oil and Gas a request to eliminate an injection zone for an existing Class II Saltwater Disposal well being used for the injection of produced brine.

The closing of schools in the Red Hill Unit 10 district for the year means that more attention can be given to building projects that were difficult to remedy while classes were in session.

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