Day: November 12, 2020

By HERB STUFFLEBEAM For The Weekly Post FARMINGTON – The Farmington Historical Society and Museum, in cooperation with the Farmington American Legion, has started a project to place a flag holder medallion on each veteran’s grave in eight local cemeteries. This is part of a six-year project to digitize listings for these cemeteries. While digitizing and visiting these cemeteries, it became apparent that most veterans were not identified. Digitized information is available at the Farmington Historical Society and Museum and at the Farmington Area Public Library. The cemeteries are: Oak Ridge, Hill, Pleasant Hill Chapin, Providence Chapel, Coal Creek Dunkard,…

Design meeting to be scheduled By John A. Ballentine The location of Toulon’s proposed sanitary sewer lift station will be at the southeast corner of Prairie and Whitaker Streets. That is the lowest site of the area where the lift station will become part of Toulon’s extended sanitary system. The problem that exists now is raw sewage is being deposited into a waterway at that location, which feeds west in to Indian Creek. According to city engineer Justin Reeise, of the Farnsworth Group, the lift station installation cost will be between $200,000 and $240,000. Reeise said that he will be…

By BILL KNIGHT For The Weekly Post Besides affecting the nation’s health and economy, the ongoing pandemic changed much of schools’ assessment data offered in the 2020 Illinois Report Card, released Oct. 30. But other details offer glimpses of the state’s students and school districts. Starting last spring, the pandemic disturbed schools’ instruction and operations, interfering with methods to measure changes since 2019. For the first time, there’s very little assessment on academics. “COVID-19 impacted most student data, limiting year-to-year comparisons,” said Jackie Matthews, spokeswoman for the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). Due to COVID-19’s impact, Illinois this year…

By JEFF LAMPE Weekly Post Staff Writer Winds gusting over 60 mph on Tuesday brought down tree limbs and power lines across the area and damaged several roofs, smaller buildings and trailers. In Elmwood, the winds ripped off the back half of the roof of the Horeb Lodge building at 114 N. Magnolia St. The building houses the Post Office, Uptown Cafe, the Mason’s meeting room and apartments. While a few bricks scattered below, most of the roof remained on top of the building, but allowed rain water to pour inside. There were no injuries. “All of the sudden, water…