Boil order for SMG customers
By Gary Scott on April 12, 2026 at 7:51am
Due to a water main break, there is a boil order for all customers along English Road, Wahl Road and Vanbebber Road that are west of Leetham Road as well as customers along Leetham Road south of English Road, all in Morgan County.
Rotary Green Trees/Shrubs
By Gary Scott on April 12, 2026 at 6:10am
The Jacksonville Rotary Club is selling trees and shrubs this month as part of the Rotary Green project. Rotary Green is working with the parks and lakes department with the project, designed to bring healthy trees to the community. Samantha Boston is leading the project. She says Rotary Green’s goal is to bring trees back […]
Underground Railroad at the Jax Museum
By Gary Scott on April 11, 2026 at 6:06am
An exhibit comes to the Jacksonville Area Museum that fits well into Jacksonville’s underground railroad history. It is a traveling exhibit from Looking for Lincoln. Jacksonville Area Museum director Tori Ohl says the exhibit is designed to put viewers into the story and struggles. Ohl says the exhibit stays here til August 1st. The exhibit […]
Jax Main Street Gets $15-thousand for Underground Railroad Mural
By Gary Scott on April 10, 2026 at 10:59am
Jacksonville is getting a chunk of money doled out by the governor’s office for public art projects. The money comes the Illinois Arts Council, governor JB Pritzker, and Illinois Humanities Jacksonville Main Street will get $15-thousand. The money is awarded to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence. Jacksonville Main Street director Judy […]
Latest Most Wanted
By Gary Scott on April 10, 2026 at 10:52am
Crimestoppers has targeted a couple of out of town suspects for this week’s most wanted. One is identified as 36-year-old Richard Hoyle. He is described as a white male, standing 5-8 and weighing 175 pounds. He has brush cut brown hair and hazel eyes. Hoyle is wanted for aggravated battery, and criminal damage to property. […]
Theft of AC Parts Spotlighted by Crimestoppers
By Gary Scott on April 10, 2026 at 6:16am
Crimestoppers is offering a helping hand in the investigation of air conditioning parts earlier this month east of Jacksonville. Morgan County deputies are investigating the theft from a business in the 21-hundred block of the Old State road. Deputies say someone, or some people took a compressor and damaged, then removed parts from three York […]
Tracy Backs CILA Zoning Bill
By Gary Scott on April 9, 2026 at 12:54pm
An area senator has lent her support to a group home bill with history in the Illinois General Assembly over the past couple of years. Senator Jil Tracy has given her support to House Bill 1843. It would ban local zoning boards and plans commission from creating restrictions for community integrated living arrangements. Jacksonville has […]
Seward Sentenced to Prison here
By Gary Scott on April 9, 2026 at 10:21am
A Cass County man has been sentenced to prison in Morgan county court on drug charges. The sentencing yesterday in Morgan County Court was for 63-year-old Eric Seward of Beardstown. Seward was given 7 years in prison for meth possession. He was arrested in early January this year. Seward was also fined $500. A charge […]
Brown County Woman Reported Missing, Found Dead near Versailles
By Gary Scott on April 9, 2026 at 6:46am
A Brown county woman reported missing Tuesday, was found dead yesterday afternoon, the victim of an apparent car accident. Sheriff Justin Oliver says his office got the call about 40-year-old Rachel Sampson of Mount Sterling about 1:30 Tuesday afternoon. Her family said Sampson had not been seen since she traveled Sunday to see family and […]
New Rules for the Homeless
By Gary Scott on April 8, 2026 at 1:13pm
A bill circulating in the Illinois House may force cities like Jacksonville to re-examine how it polices the homeless. The city council here earlier this year passed a city ordinance designed to crackdown on illegal camping in Jacksonville. A new amendment filed in late March renames a past law the Local Regulation of Unsheltered Homelessness […]
