Ellington News

Charles "King" and Martha Lou Shollenberger celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary on November 20, 2011, among the warmth and love of family and friends with dinner at Village Inn on Glenstone Avenue in Springfield.

Virginia Darr and Brad Thomas learned about grief early. Each lost a parent -- Darr when she was 8 and Thomas when he was 9. Today, both support Lost & Found Grief Center, and both continue to grieve their loss.

Over the past 12 weeks, between July 22, 2011, and October 14, 2011, the FDIC closed 25 banks, bringing to 80 this year's total.

Cheri Barton has been the chief executive officer at Hillsboro Community Hospital for a week, and she has learned that the job of chief executive officer requires her to be all things to all people.

Two more banks failed this past week, bringing the year's total number of FDIC-insured bank failures to 76.