Petersburg News

Volunteers from the Pleasant Plains Historical Society spend every Saturday cleaning out buildings at the Clayville Historic Site.

The Backliners are about what you would expect from a local cover band--typical, pop/rock, and practices in a basement.

Ever heard of the Great American People Show? No, it's not that group of fresh-faced kids who tour the country singing cornball songs.

Local cowboys and cowgirls participated and performed well in the Illinois Junior Rodeo Association this past summer, 2009.

Local cowboys and cowgirls participated and performed well in the Illinois Junior Rodeo Association this past summer, 2009.

There are all kinds of scholarships just for having an interest in an obscure field or merely being something unusual - tall, a little person, left-handed, or being named Gatling, Van Valkenburg, or Zolp.

Five 13-year-olds put their hands and hearts to work during a mission trip last week in Illinois.

Hill Prairie Winery is the venue for an outdoor screening of a film shot in Menard County, produced by Petersburg natives Adam and Tom Galassi and Thomas Snyder and based loosely on the local legend of a boy, Raymond Colby, who claims he was carried off by a thunderbird to a magical place .

As a travel agent, the world is literally Sandra Pufahl's oyster. But you might be surprised to find the pearl is not an exotic beach or rainforest but a lake in Petersburg, Ill.

Repairs continue at Petersburg's new water plant after it was struck by lightning last month.

Chicago attorney Karen Conti bought a piece of Menard County history today for $31,000. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Petersburg was auctioned off after the church's membership had dwindled to about a handful of people.

Open seven days a week with a bolstered seasonal work staff, Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site now can offer more experiences like the Lincoln-Berry Store that Katie Ford of Normal enjoyed Thursday.

Lenora Wilson is sad that Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Petersburg, which she began attending in the 1940s, is being auctioned this coming Saturday.