"This is really a difficult day, it's something that I didn't want to see happen," Jennifer Brooks said as she watched demolition crews take apart a century old building her father, Neal, has owned for the past 23 years. Brooks said it wasn't an easy decision to tear down the building at 595 S. Broadway, but the cost to make the needed repairs was just to high. Patrick Clark Excavating of Braidwood was hired to bring the building down and that's just what he did on Aug. 28. Constructed in the 1890's, the building housed numerous businesses over the years, the most remembered was Jacino's Drug Store. Photos by Ann Gill
STUDENTS AND staff at Coal City High School sign on to challenge themselves to be kinder more compassionate people by following the lead of Rachel Scott. Scott was the first person killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.
Rachel Scott and her friend, Richard were eating lunch on the lawn outside Columbine High School when two fellow students approached and began shooting. Tuesday, September 07, 2010
The village of Diamond will be full of activity this weekend as the Diamond Civic Club hosts its 21st Annual Diamond Day celebration. Tuesday, September 07, 2010
A Coal City man told police he was suspicious about a letter he'd received in the mail inviting him to be a secret shopper, a position that would net him $250.75, plus $160 in products purchased from specific retailers. Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Maine Township honored one of its own as township officials gathered at the town hall on Monday to recognize and remember long time town clerk, Robert Krull. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Rick Roseland was sitting around one day with a few of his buddies when the idea to have a garage sale popped up in their conversation.
"My wife Jeanie just laughed at us, so we decided that we'd show her and thus the five guys garage sale came to be," Roseland said. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
