Vandalia News

Vandalia plans to continue agressive recrcuitment efforts after Orgill picks Sikeston Within a week of learning that Vandalia will be losing one of its major employers, city officials voiced optimism about ...

Again this week, we turn to the historical archives found in back issues of The Vandalia Union newspaper.

Vandalia plans to continue agressive recrcuitment efforts after Orgill picks Sikeston Within a week of learning that Vandalia will be losing one of its major employers, city officials voiced optimism about ...

Delay on picking Wodtka's successor Marsha Wodtka still doesn't know who will serve as her temporary successor when she retires at the end of this month.

Enhanced 911 on the November ballot Fayette County residents will decide in November whether Enhanced 911 service becomes available in this county.

City continuing negotiations with Orgill More than two weeks after Vandalia officials learned that the city s hopes of landing Orgill s new distribution center were being threatened, they continue to work on ...

Frakes wins Junior Miss crown Sarah Frakes won the Junior Miss Fayette County title in a pageant held on Sunday at the Fayette County Fairgrounds in Brownstown.

Back in 1914, the editor of The Vandalia Union newspaper asked the old settlers to write down what they remembered about the county 50 years before.

Man accepts 12 years in prison for sex crime A rural Vandalia man accused of having sex with a minor female has agreed to go to prison.

'> Friedel-Goggin battle continues-electoral board to convene on Monday A little more than two months after a county electoral board ruled that a Greenville attorney could not run as the Republican candidate ...

Vandalia's fight to keep Orgill continues Contrary to rumors that were circulating in the community late last week, Orgill Inc.

Sheriff's office has dog to help sniff out drugs, missing persons The newest member of Fayette County Sheriff's Office law enforcement team does not sit behind the wheel in a squad car.

CSX will fix Remann crossing After hearing numerous complaints from local residents, CSX Railroad plans to rehabilitate the Remann Street crossing.

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on June 12, 2008, MARK C. HUFFSTATLER, age 33 , of Vandalia, Illinois was sentenced in the United States ...

MARYVILLE, VANDALIA AND SILVIS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES PAY $14,710 IN BACK WAGES AND ARE ASSESSED $8,400 IN PENALTIES FOR WAGE VIOLATIONS Springwood Associates, a limited partnership doing business in Maryville, ...

Schools' state money is expected soon Though Gov. Rod Blagojevich said three weeks ago that he would release funds to complete the state s last two school aid payments of this fiscal year, local school ...

For 87 years, quite likely a record for a weekly newspaper column, Mary Peyton Meyer kept track of just about anything that went on in Frogtown, a largely German-Lutheran farming community southeast of Vandalia ...

Shobonier, the only town in Kaskaskia Township, was established as a timber town in about 1844.

Relay for Life is Saturday The annual event to raise money locally for the fight against cancer is held this weekend in Vandalia.

Area residents are invited to experience history in a variety of ways on Saturday when Citizens Reviving Historic Belleville hold their second annual Belles of Belleville Spring House Tour.