Tolono News

Getting Personal is an email Q&A with a local personality. Here, Melissa Merli talks with Mathew Green, who produces and directs theater, mostly at the Station Theatre in Urbana.

A third candidate for the city council's soon-to-be-vacant District 3 seat emerged on Thursday.

Children enjoy checking out work vehicles of all shapes and sizes at Champaign Park District's annual Touch a Truck at Centennial Park in Champaign on Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

Farmers have been working at a record-setting pace this season. Spring planting in Illinois wrapped up extra early.

The Champaign County Court-Appointed Special Advocates will have a Mother's Day fundraiser from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Indi Go Artist Co-Op, 9 E. University Ave., C. The sale will feature 50 daylilies grown by Champaign County CASA's advocate coordinator Jim Wuersch, a co-owner of 5-Acre Farm Daylilies near Tolono.

During the Civil War, Sedalia's permanent population was small. One Civil War soldier wrote to his family that Sedalia had so few houses that it didn't seem to be much of a town.