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Highland Area Community Foundation seeks grant applicants
The Highland Area Community Foundation is currently seeking applicants for its 2012 grant awards. Awards are given for non-for-profit purposes and to individuals, organizations or groups that provide community services within the territory of the Highland Community Unit School District and in St...
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LIVING
Highland dirt track driver's family is proud to ride shotgun
Darrell McDowell leads a double life: banker during the week, race car driver on weekends.
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Local professor wins award from McKendree
Dr. Tami Eggleston of Highland, associate dean and professor of psychology at McKendree University, received the Grandy Faculty Award for outstanding commitment to the university and its students.
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Local well-wishers give local Marine great 21st birthday in Afghanistan
The “Operation Birthday” mission was a success.
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Highland-Pierron firefighters receive state Medal of Valor
May 31, 2011, is a date many in the village of Pierron won’t soon forget. The firefighters of the Highland-Pierron Fire Department remember that night well; they can easily recount the urgency in the dispatcher’s voice as they were paged to the Schmitt family’s house fire as...
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Harmony Kapp selected as Highland IFBW’s ‘Young Woman of Achievement’
Harmony Kapp was selected as Highland Business Women’s “Young Woman of Achievement” for 2012.
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Alhambra woman honored by SIU as ‘Distinguished Senior’
The SIU Alumni Association, the SIU Carbondale Chancellor’s Office, and the Student Alumni Council (SAC) recently honored 25 seniors during ceremony as part of the institution’s “25 Most Distinguished Seniors” program. Among those honored was Alhambra native Kristalynn...
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Miss Highland Pageant to be part of 175th celebration
Following the tradition of the Highland Centennial (1937) and the Sesquicentennial (1987), the Highland 175th Jubilee is sponsoring a Miss Highland Pageant. In addition to the crowning of a Miss Highland Queen, the 175th Jubilee will also include a Parade of Princesses and Princes. The Miss Highland...
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Local entertainer releases song to help children and fathers
Elizabeth Lakamp of Troy has been a professional vocalist for a number of years. Singing popular cover tunes for various groups and events have been her main source of income. However, more recently Lakamp has been dancing down a new musical path, one that has led to Branson, Mo., in pursuit of ...
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St. Paul students donate shoes to help drill wells in Africa
Under the leadership of Mrs. Sarah Katich, science teacher for sixth, seventh and eighth grade, the students of St. Paul School are each year taught the benefits of recycling. Whereas their parents and grandparents would probably list the three “Rs” as “reading, ’riting...
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Tornado blew away buildings but not family’s memories
Last Easter, Jim and Dolores Richter had all kinds of company.








