Vandalia News

For 13 years, Bobbie Vandalia and the congregation at College Avenue Presbyterian Church in Alton have had a Christmas Day dinner for residents to enjoy.

The Fayette County Health Department has its recycling program in place. Recycling will be offered on the second Saturday of every month, beginning on November 14th.

Two Illinois gas plant workers are injured during a fire. The fire happened at the Natural Gas Pipeline Company in St.

St. Charles-based Sidwell Company has announced a number of new contracts for geographic information services .

The Illinois Department of Transportation will provide $1.27 million in funding for Southern Illinois road projects planned for the spring.

August 13, 2009 -- St. Charles, IL Located in central southern Illinois, Fayette County encompasses an area of 720 square miles, and is home to the original capitol building for the state of Illinois at Vandalia.

The weather has not been too bad for the St. Jude Memphis to Peoria runners this year.

If you haven't already, now's a great time to establish a bedtime routine for your toddler.

Sesquicentennials don't come along every day. Now that the city has celebrated its past and put its heritage into perspective, maybe we should devote an equivalent number of dollars and an equivalent number of hours to figuring out the future.

Edwardsville and Holiday Shores both had problems with the intense rains that dampened the Memorial Day holiday.

The City of Vandalia has hired a Michigan-based firm to construct a two million square-foot sports and entertainment complex, with a 9,000-seat arena will be at the center of the development.

The Montgomery County Economic Development/Government Equity Advisory Committee on Friday, May 15, recommended funding seven projects with $1.2 million from the county's 2009 Primary Economic Development Fund of ED/GE. The funding recommendations will be considered by county commissioners at a meeting on May 19.

Muncie - Elvin E. 'Wheel' Telford, 82, passed away Saturday, May 2, 2009 at Ball Memorial Hospital.

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn today announced that 11 of the state historic sites closed late last year are re-opened to the public.