EUREKA - “Learning to Knit Lace” will be taught at Eureka Public Library by Mary McSweeney.

EUREKA - On Monday, March 5 from 3 to 4 p.m. a young moms group will be meeting at the Eureka Public Library. The group is being coordinated by Jen Guidebeck from the Baby Fold, Bloomington.

The group meets on the first and third Mondays.

By Jenna Hogan

EUREKA - Have you checked your food handler’s license expiration date lately? Do you need to renew your Illinois Department of Public Health Food Safety Service Sanitation Managers Certification within the next few months?

By Pete Rosenbery

CARBONDALE - Illinois high school students will have the chance next month to learn more about politics and community service during the 12th annual Youth Government Day, sponsored by Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.

EAST PEORIA - The 2012 Illinois History Symposium will be held April 16-28 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in East Peoria.

Warm winter with little snow, what's in store next?

Throughout most of the U.S., this winter has been one of the warmest in memory. There has been less snow, too. Are we experiencing global warming or just a periodically warm winter? 

And what, if anything, does this winter portend for spring and summer?

Architectural rendering of new skilled nursing facility planned for West Peoria.  Image courtesy of Jenny Fulton, Director of Strategic Communications for Peoria County.

WEST PEORIA — Since 1848, Peoria County has owned and operated a skilled care nursing home that serves county residents.
The County’s newest skilled care nursing home has been under construction since September of 2011 and is now starting to take shape.

Frontier Airlines Airbus A319.  Photo retrieved from Wikipedia.  

BLOOMINGTON — Less than a month before AirTran ceases its low-cost, non-stop services at the Central Illinois Regional Airport, Frontier Airlines will start a low-cost, non-stop service at the airport.

The bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln inside the main entrance to Oesterle Library is a replica of an original sculpture created by Gutzon Borglum, best known for his role in creating the memorial at Mount Rushmore.  Photo by News Bulletin staff.

Recent research has uncovered that a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln displayed at North Central College is linked to the sculptor who created Mount Rushmore.

The Exelon Foundation has become the first major corporate foundation to support the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Partnership School at Aurora University with a $500,000 gift to help create a new national model for mathematics and science education.

 The Fox Valley Park District greenhouse grows and nutures plants that will eventually be transplanted to area parks.  Photo by News Bulletin staff.

Plants are truly amazing. So it wasn’t surprising when a first-grader asked what seemed to be a very logical question.
“Can you grow French fries in your garden?”
Well, no. Actually, yes … kind of.

The City of Batavia is again offering residents the opportunity to purchase a parkway tree as part of its commitment to community reforestation.

Funding comes from the city's Electric Utility, and the program is administered by the Street Division of Batavia Public Works.