New Canton News

Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:33 AM by Julie Harker Hard work shoring up levees along the Mississippi River in Illinois has paid off for many farmers.

Work continues on the 54-miles of main-stem Mississippi River levee. River levels crested during the early morning hours Monday but high river levels are expected to remain over major flood stage for another ...

The Southern Baptist Convention has teamed up with the Red Cross to prepare many of the meals.

By Dara Brockmeyer About 50 Country Financial workers left the suit and tie at home today and are headed to the Mississippi River.

The Sny Island Levee, which protects farmland along the Mississippi River in western Illinois, is a manmade ridge, constructed mostly of sand with a core of earth and clay.

Across the river, sandbagging efforts continue in Hull to protect the Sny Island Levee district.

Morale remains as high as the tension as we watch the river rise to historic levels.

Volunteers sought to sustain 50 miles of levy. June 14, 2008 - 10:21PM BY KATE RAMSAY Journal-Courier A siege of volunteers, including presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, filled sandbags ...

As the Mississippi River continues to rise, residents of towns along the Illinois side of the river hark back to the Great Flood of 1993, when the river inundated hundreds of homes, caused $1.5 billion in ...

Glenna A. Spencer, 80, of New Canton, died Wednesday, May 28, 2008, in Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St.

Kiser Creek Trap Range of New Canton is having a meeting on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 3:00 p.m. at the Western High School Gym in Barry. via Pike Press

NEW CANTON, Ill. The public is invited to shop exceptional sales and earn chances to win prizes at a special Home and Garden Party fund-raising activity. via Hannibal Courier-Post

“I have a real strong suspicion that this company is playing Texas Hold'em, but you have the aces.”

Saturday, in New Canton, U.S. Representative Phil Hare spoke to landowners and the commissioners of the Sny Island Levee Drainage District at the Sny Island Levee Drainage District about the approved concept of ... via Pike Press