Beardstown News

Cousins Angelo Pizzo, 18, and Rosa Pizzo, 20, make a customer favorite, pepperoni pizza, at the family restaurant Roma's Pizza in Bethalto, which opened in 1973.

At the bi-monthly meeting on January 19, the Exchange Club of Beardstown recognized and honored youth for December and January.

The October, 2011 issue of the trade magazine Industry News featured a story based in part on a former Beardstown native and graduate Timothy Verheyen, Oates Associates, a civil and structural engineering/architectural design firm, announced that Verheyen, along with two other engineers, received their Professional Engineer licenses from the state ... (more)

Jody Woltman Star-Gazette publisher Aaron Tebrinke, staffer It's been a known fact for two years: Several items on a multiple page document from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers need to be completed to apply for levee recertification, with no guarantee the Beardstown levee will pass.

I can't help but wonder how much better things would be now if it wasn't so easy to blame others for what, back in the day, would have been considered personal responsibility.

Ogden, Erick Mathias Visitation, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Wataga Congregational Church.

A Mount Sterling man is no longer facing a felony charge in Brown County, but three felony charges have been filed against him in Cass County stemming from a deadly Jan.

A petition started circulating Thursday against the Army Corps of Engineers after seven trees were cut down at Beardstown Harbor.

Sheriff Arrest, Citation Forrest B. Brake, 19, of 612 N. Grand Ave. in Auburn was booked into the Morgan County Jail about 1:10 a.m. Monday on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

In the early 19th century, most of Illinois' original counties lost territory as new and smaller counties were formed.

A Mount Sterling man appeared in court Thursday on charges stemming from a high-speed chase through four counties that ended in a deadly crash in Beardstown.

Naomi L. Dotzert of Beardstown will celebrate her 90th birthday on January 27. She was born January 27, 1922, to John and Minnie Fiedler of rural Bluffs Springs/Virginia. She had one brother, Kenneth Fiedler of rural Beardstown.

Ida Tucker of Beardstown will celebrate her 90th birthday on Jan. 28th. Friends and family are invited to attend an open house on Sunday, Jan.

By Jody Woltman Star-Gazette publisher A high-speed chase that started in Brown County and went through Pike and Morgan counties, ended in a Cass County crash near 8th and Beard Streets in Beardstown, resulting in one fatality.

Governor Quinn will hand out hundreds of millions of dollars in the form of food stamps and medical care to people who aren't even citizens of this country but he will close JDC.

Brianna Baker, 19, of Adams County, Ill., was one of six passengers involved in a high-speed pursuit through Cass and Brown counties that ended in her death and one other injury.

A 19-year-old Adams County girl died in a one-vehicle accident about 3 a.m. Sunday at Eighth and Beard streets in Beardstown, according to Beardstown Police Chief Tom Schlueter.

Rosemary White will celebrate her 80th birthday on Jan. 29. She was born in Cass County, to Jack and Beulah Morgan of Virginia.

Brian and Sherry Ralston celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on January 15.