Beardstown News

Vietnam veteran Verlin Maglitz of Jacksonville, Ill., takes a rubbing of those he fought with in Vietnam during his visit to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, Friday.

Fourteen new planters grace Beardstown City Square thanks to the City of Beardstown, Beardstown Main Street and West Central Bank.

A farm house was carried 150 feet high before shattering, killing the two occupants.

Sheriff Arrest, Citation Shane A. Moore, 23, of 641 Moore Road in Winchester was booked into the Morgan County Jail about 9:35 a.m. Monday on a charge of violating probation on a driving under the influence of alcohol offense.

Local Veterans of Foreign Wars are asking people of the Beardstown area to aid them in their attempt to honor the dead by helping the living.A Members of Guthrie Pierce Post 1239, Veterans of Foreign Wars, along with the women and men of the Posts' Auxiliaries will be conducting their annual "Buddy Poppy" fundraiser this Friday and Saturday, May 18 ... (more)

By June Conner Star-Gazette editor A fugitive living in Beardstown has been released from the Schuyler County Jail after Puerto Rico made a decision not to extradite the fugitive, and alleged child molester.

Broken contracts, ignoring the Constitution. This is what our political system has come to.

Come on Jacksonville. When you are online reading the Open Line, go to the Varsity section and vote for our high school players.

Beardstown may soon have a mechanism to prevent vacant buildings from becoming eyesores if a new ordinance is passed in the coming month.

Born Dec. 22, 1971 in Beardstown, IL, he was a 1990 graduate of Lincolnway High School in New Lenox.

The latest updates to the Illinois Department of Transportation's six-year improvement plan indicate west-central Illinois could be seeing a number of large construction projects in the next year.

Quesadillas and flautas sizzled on grills while mariachis played traditional Mexican songs from a pavilion festooned with green, white and red balloons.

Jill Lyles was the $1,000 grand prize winner in the recent IGA Spring Sweepstakes.

The Round House Center in Beardstown will open its doors Sunday May 6 with their first event- a flea market from 8 to 4. If you haven't had a chance to tour the facility, Sunday will be the perfect opportunity.

Sheriff Accident Two people were injured Sunday morning when a vehicle struck a bridge guardrail on the Concord-Arenzville Road south of Arenzville.