A brief fun ribbon cutting ceremony at The Hearing Place / Consulting Audiology Associates - celebration and networking opportunity!

The City of Columbia will re-open the newly remodeled one room Shoemaker School House located at 6 Gall Road with frontage along the busy Route 3 corridor as a year round pop-up shop prior to the upcoming Christmas season.

You're invited to Business After Hours hosted Wolter's Custom Cabinets on Octber 18.

Please join the City of Sparta, MSA Professional Services, Inc., and the Sparta Area Chamber of Commerce for a Ribbon Cutting at the new Sparta Business Park. Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch will be attending.

Have a story you’d like to share concerning your property tax bill?

The City of Columbia is currently accepting applications for food, craft and kid zone vendors for our FestiFall in Metter Park on Sunday, September 30, 1pm-6pm.

On July 26, Illinois Homecare and Hospice Council (IHHC) President Cheryl Adams, administrator of At-Home Health Care of Sparta Community Hospital, and IHHC Immediate Past President, Sheila Guither, OSF Home Care Clinical Educator, shared Illinois agencies' pre-claim review experience with their Ohio colleagues to help them prep for Review Choice Demonstration.

The pair of Great-Horned owls nested and raised a clutch of owlets to fledging in a tree snag near our home last winter and spring.

Ameren Illinois has released its new residential electric rate for customers in the Columbia area through May 2019.

Cindy Haddick, Clerical Assistant at Sparta Medical Office, recently celebrated 25 Years of Service.

We would like to nominate Katrina Templeton for Employee of the Quarter.

Quilters and non-quilters will enjoy the unique way of telling the story and history behind a quilt collection.

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this weak overturning a decades-old decision allowing unions to charge non-members for lobbying seems to belong a world away, ideologically, from the one in 1977 that said such fees were constitutional.

Pamela Harris said June 27 was a day to celebrate economic liberty and the restoration of the First Amendment rights to millions of workers and their families.

Dr. Kelly Wood, Primary Care Provider at Sparta Community Hospital’s Marissa Medical Clinic, will be presenting a program on Adult Vaccinations on Thursday, June 28th, 12:30pm.

Marshall Browning Hospital will take a big technological leap forward when it launches Electronic Health Records connecting the hospital and physician practices on July 2, 2018.

Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin will offer school sports physical clinics for area junior high and high school athletes.

Memorial Hospital in Chester is pleased to welcome three new anesthesiologists from the Anesthesia Associates of Southern Illinois.

Judy Jennings had been looking to move to Monroe County for some time and was shown a house from the 1900s in Merrimac.

A company that creates and delivers meal kits featuring organic ingredients has expanded its southern Illinois distribution center, with Gov. Bruce Rauner marking the occasion at a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony.