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Friday, September 03, 2010
One man's trash is her treasure
One man's trash is her treasure
LIGHTING UP ELWOOD - Regena G.F. Harris shows off some of her collection boxes in her home in Elwood. Regena has made a hobby out of collecting unique cigarette lighters and other items, putting them on display in cardboard boxes. One of her displays even got her recognition from the Will County Farm Bureau. Read Regena's unique tale in this week's editions of The Free Press Advocate, The Coal City Courant and The Braidwood Journal. Photo by Marney Simon.



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Braidwood Journal
Council chaos, complaints lead to arrests
One of Braidwood's most active local contractors found himself in jail within two hours of standing up at a City Council, complaining of being harassed.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Police dog apprehends burglary suspect
Braidwood's four-legged police officer was able to put another arrest under his collar last week.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Council signs off on TIF closure
After a series of public meetings and mounds of paperwork, the Braidwood City Council finally took a major step toward ending the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) I district.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Coal City Courant
And the walls came tumbling down
The first bricks of Raschiotti Hall were set in the early 1890s and on a warm August day in 2010 they came tumbling down.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
All sales final
Rick Roseland was sitting around one day with a few of his buddies when the idea to have a garage sale popped up in their conversation.

"My wife Jeanie just laughed at us, so we decided that we'd show her and thus the five guys garage sale came to be," Roseland said.


Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Krull honored in Maine Township
Maine Township honored one of its own as township officials gathered at the town hall on Monday to recognize and remember long time town clerk, Robert Krull.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Free Press Advocate
City pushes for progress on dam issues
Seventeen years of discussion and repetitious preliminary work all led back to the starting point where the Kankakee River dam at Wilmington is concerned - nothing can happen to address safety issues there until the state of Illinois becomes the owner of the structure and has access to it.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Coalition awarded drug free grant
The Wilmington Coalition for a Healthy Community is one of 169 organizations nationwide to be awarded a Drug Free Communities Support Program Grant (DFC). The grant award was announced Tuesday night.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
National Cemetery requests Elwood annexation
ELWOOD - Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery would like to make Elwood its official home, according to a recent petition for annexation filed with the village.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
City seeks input on Booth reuse
The city of Wilmington seeks community input regarding the future and potential use of the Booth Central School building.

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