Henderson County News

Appeals process worries some local officials. By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES ccrippes@thehawkeye.com A year later and across the river region, history is repeating itself.

John Gaines/ The Hawk Eye " I'm tired of looking for jobs" said Terry Goodpaster of Burlington as he studies for a class at Southeastern Community College in West Burlington.

Line dancers, from left, Emma Alexander, 13, of Biggsville; Anna Stevenson, 13, of Gladstone; and Jamie Bundy, 13, of Oquawka, dance to country music while volunteering at the Henderson County Fun and Flood Relief Day Saturday in West Central Elementary School gym in Biggsville, Ill.

I was so surprised to hear at the Henderson County Republican Women's Annual meeting that our county is being bombarded with break-ins. Jennifer Sparrow from Lomax was very concerned because there had been six break-ins in and around Lomax she said.

During a March visit to Gulfport, Ill., Hare asked his constituents to help him gain interest in Congress for a 500-year levee by sharing their stories about how the historic Flood of 2008 impacted their lives.

Bruce Morath has been named chief deputy of the Warren County Sheriff's Department, effective, Oct.

STONE GLEANINGS: Mr. Lewis moved from the W. M. James house into Mrs. Frank Johnson's house in the east part of town.

I really look forward each year in traveling about our county to see sites and visit with our neighbors and those who come from afar, during Heritage Trails in Henderson County.

I am 99% certain that my ancestor Eusebius Morse was the son of Perse Morse and Martha Kincaid Eusebius was born about 1799 in Vermont and died after 1886, probably in Henderson County, Illinois.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye Cindy Kane of Little York, Ill., adjusts the fake beard of her son William, 10, who was dressed as Abraham Lincoln Sunday during the dedicatoin of Oquawka's new Lincoln Monument in Sesquicentennial Park in Oquawka.

A circus came to town last evening in Stronghurst at the Henderson County's fairground.

Fall is just around the corner and will bring with it a delightful array of changing colors, a lush harvest, the scurrying of wildlife, and an abundance to be thankful for.

Not belonging to the West Central Illinois Drug Task Force does not affect the Henderson County Sheriff's Department's drug investigations and arrest, said to Henderson County Sheriff Mark Lumbeck.

Henderson County officials say a western Illinois man was found dead days after being involved in a motorcycle accident.

Lost to the ages were the names of the very poor until Carolyn Cooper of Chatham, Ill., decided to research her family tree.

Lost to the ages were the names of the very poor until Carolyn Cooper of Chatham, Ill., decided to research her family tree.

Lost to the ages were the names of the very poor until Carolyn Cooper of Chatham, Ill., decided to research her family tree.

Lost to the ages were the names of the very poor until Carolyn Cooper of Chatham, Ill., decided to research her family tree.

The longtime Henderson County resident, who has served with the state police for 20 years, will run as a Republican in the upcoming election.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Heidi Sorenson, center, project manager with the Flood Assistance Program contracted by the Salvation Army, and Karen Cole, left, and Heidi Ross pack school backpacks with supplies Thursday in the Flood Assistance Program office at the Henderson County Health Department in Gladstone, Ill.