Altamont News

Altamont, IL: .50" hail Capital Airport: .75" hail Chatham, IL: .50" hail Franklin, IL: 1.00" hail Mechanicsburg, IL: .75" hail Mount Pulaski, IL: .75" hail Pleasant Plains, IL: Several trees down, front of a garage pulled out, roofs ripped off of outbuildings from thunderstorm winds.

Altamont school board members heard this week that enrollment at the grade school is at 524 students, 11 more than in April one year earlier.A Altamont Community High School enrollment is at 260, nine fewer than one year earlier.

Jerry White discussed the "keys to success" during the Community Celebration of Excellence Breakfast today at Beecher City High School.

The next in a series of Effingham County Vision 2020 Community Celebration of Excellence Breakfasts will be held next Wednesday, March 28.

Three Effingham County men accused of a hate crime, will take their cases to a jury.