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11/14/2025

Past Comet and Lady Comet basketball players plus cheerleaders will be back in the Greenville High School gym November 22 for a special night. Comets basketball coach Todd Cantrill says the boys’ and girls’ programs will host a Thomas Basketball Alumni Game on Saturday, November 22. The girls’...

11/13/2025

In March of 2023, the Kingsbury Park District learned it had been awarded a $600,000 Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development grant from the state. The no-match grant covered the majority of the costs for recent improvements at William S. Wait Park. At the November meeting of the KPD Board, Dist...

11/13/2025

The Mulberry Grove Unit 1 Board of Education will be adopting a new tax levy at its next meeting. This week at the board’s November meeting, a tentative tax levy hearing was held. Superintendent Casie Bowman said the district needs to capture all of the money it can for the operation of the school...

11/13/2025

https://wgel.com/news/2025/11/council-favors-public-forum-status-for-plaza/

The Greenville City Council had a decision to make at its recent meeting regarding the administration of the new downtown plaza. Council members had two avenues to choose, government speech only, which would have restricted use to government-partnered groups, or keeping the plaza a traditional publi...

11/13/2025

The Bond County Ag in the Classroom program reached hundreds of local students in October, sharing hands-on lessons about Illinois agriculture. Ag Literacy Coordinator Kimberly Taylor visited all Bond County elementary schools, teaching students about pumpkins, pollination, and the importance of Ill...

11/13/2025

The annual Veterans Day Ceremony was held Tuesday in Greenville at the First United Methodist Church. The church was filled with community members, veterans, and parents and grandparents of children in the Greenville Elementary School and Greenville High School choruses. The guest speaker was Staff....

11/13/2025

The Kingsbury Park District Board met Monday and approved a motion setting the maximum amount for next year’s tax levy. The motion indicates the district’s levy will not exceed $405,792 which is just under the figure which would cause a truth in taxation hearing to be held. The proposed levy fig...

11/13/2025

Two professors at Kaskaskia College have revitalized the school’s music and theatre programs, creating fresh opportunities for students in southern Illinois to explore the arts. Assistant theatre professor Nathan Young and assistant music professor Cody Paul have worked with the college and its bo...

11/11/2025

A fourth quarter comeback fell short for the Greenville University football team Saturday afternoon. Northwestern of Minnesota led 17-0 early in the fourth quarter, then GU posted two touchdowns to make it 17-14, but that ended up the final score. The Greenville TDs were a 10-yard run by Terrel Grav...

11/11/2025

It was a very exciting opening game Friday for the Greenville University mens basketball team. The contest went into double overtime on the GU court before Spurgeon College emerged with a 162-156 win. Greenville led by nine points at half time, but the visitors sent the game into overtime. Both team...

11/11/2025

The Greenville University women's volleyball program continues to dominate the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Panthers earned another regular season SLIAC championship by beating Westminster and Spalding last Saturday to finish regular season play with a 13-1 conference record. I...

11/11/2025

Both Greenville University soccer teams played in the championship games of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament at home Saturday, but they suffered heartbreaking losses. In womens soccer action, Greenville and Spalding battled 110 minutes without anyone scoring so penalty ki...