2008 Woodie Awards
Pagan group celebrates equinox
A group of slightly less than 30 people, some sporting rabbit ears, stood in a circle around a small wooden floor in the Davis-McCann Center in Murphysboro Saturday night, tracing the outline of their bodies with eggs.
The high priestess of the ceremony, Tara Nelsen, instructed the group that doing this would help pull the negativity out of their lives and breaking the eggs would completely remove it.…
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Lifelong resident appointed Carbondale city attorneyCarbondale resident Michael Kimmel appointed next City Attorney
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Cole, Simon face off in mayoral debate
Sunday became a showdown between experience and ideas as Mayor Brad Cole and opponent Councilwoman Sheila Simon battled it out in a mayoral debate hosted by the Arbor District Neighborhood Association. Cole and Simon laid out their ideas for combating rising crime, dilapidated rental housing and racism within the city as they also had the opportunity to shoot holes in the challenger's plans.…
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Inventors show off their ideas at business development center
The drive to invent is as old as the human race, and the inventors themselves, those ingenious tinkers or armchair MacGyvers, have helped propel our species forward through innovation.
That drive for improvement called 25 local inventors to a pre-audition event for ABC's "American Inventor 2" at the Illinois Small Business Development Center on Saturday.…
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