Summer elves needed to wrap gifts for meals on wheels

The Visiting Nurse Association invites everyone to come indoors and cool off at the organization’s holiday gift wrap event from 1-4 p.m. on Aug. 11.

Solomon Jones: Hail Labor Day, the rare inexpensive holiday

I LIKE LABOR DAY, and that's fitting, because I've labored in nearly every kind of job. I worked in an animal research lab and as a police dispatcher, in a drug store and as a supermarket cashier, in a picture frame factory and as a UPS truck loader. I even spent a week fueling airplanes back in the day . . . until I accidentally drove the fuel truck into the wing of a DC-10.

Family affair

PAROWAN - This was the first year Parowan resident Sam Gull and his family entered an exhibit in the Iron County Fair.

Patrick Sheltra, No. 60 PatrickSheltra.com Dodge Du Quoin ARCA Fast Facts

Patrick Sheltra, No. 60 PatrickSheltra.com / Ferguson Pipe Dodge Charger, Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Car Care Fast Facts ARCA Racing Series Race No. 16, Southern Illinois 100 presented by Fede rated Car Care, Du Quoin State Fairgrounds, Du Quoin, Illinois Race Information: Event: Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Car Care, Monday, September 6 at 1:00 p.m. Local Time ...

News of the Weird

Museumgoer mistook toilet for real thing.