FEATURE PHOTO: Selling fireworks on Lincoln Avenue
Raine Zhu, Photographer
July 1, 2019
Tristan Warner (right) from Warner Enterprises talks with a customer at a set of merchant tables at an empty space next to Arby’s Monday. He said Warner Enterprises provides premier consumer fireworks across the state. Warner said business hours for the fireworks sales go from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The...
Community Band salute, bingo to kick off Red, White, Blue Days
Logan Raschke, Editor-in-Chief
June 25, 2019
As part of the Red, White and Blue Days celebration, people can attend the Community Band patriotic salute and Harold Hackett Memorial Bingo this week to begin the city's Independence Day festivities. Ginger Stanfield, director of the Community Band, said the band will perform a number of patriotic...
Community celebrates with Fourth of July Parade
Jordan Boyer, Editor-in-Chief
July 4, 2018
Members of the community came out, despite the intense heat, to watch the Fourth of July Parade Wednesday afternoon. As the fire truck horns started to ring through the air, children started to jump with excitement to see the many different parade floats and to get a bunch of free candy. Two bro...
Parade commemorates Independence Day
AJ Fournier and Cassie Buchman
July 5, 2017
Up 6th Street and down Polk Avenue, the annual Fourth of July parade kicked off with firetrucks and police in the front, followed by different businesses and organizations driving through throwing candy and ices. Family Video, Coles County Republicans and Democrats, Shakespeare in the Park were j...
