4-30-2008

GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL WENT ON LOCKDOWN TUESDAY MORNING

 

A threatening voicemail message, to a relative of an employee at Bond County Community Unit 2 School district, resulted in the Greenville High School going on lockdown for a short period of time Tuesday morning, according to a statement released from Superintendent of Unit 2 Schools, Melanie Allyn. The lockdown started at approximately 8:44 AM and lasted until 8:52. Officers from the Greenville Police Department responded, along with the resource officer already at the school. No students appear to have been in any danger. It has not yet been confirmed who left the threatening message and to what purpose, but a suspect was taken into custody by the Bond County Sherriff’s department shortly after the school was put on lockdown. It is possible that the Highland Police department could file charges since the message was left at a business within Highland. It is not known exactly what the message said, but it has been referred to as both threatening and violent. 

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TRUCK TRAIN ACCIDENT IN CLINTON COUNTY CLAIMS ONE LIFE

 

The Clinton County Sheriff's Department has confirmed a single vehicle accident occurred between a truck and a train at 11:00 Tuesday morning. According to Clinton County Coroner Dave Moss, Lawrence Becker, age 87, of Bartelso, was killed as a result of the accident. Clinton County Sheriff's Department Deputies are working to reconstruct the accident, which happened near Bartelso.

 

MORE DETAILS ON MONDAY'S TRAFFIC ACCIDENT THAT CAUSED THE POWER OUTAGE

 

WGEL has more details on the traffic accident Monday morning that caused almost 4,000 businesses and residents to lose power.  The accident occurred at 10:10 Monday morning approximately a mile and a half north of Patriot's Park on Route 127.  The accident involved 2 semi trucks.  The first semi was driven by Lawrence Haas of Trenton.  According to the Illinois State Police, a rear passenger tire came off Haas's trailer and struck the semi driven by Regis Jennings of Ontario, Canada.  Jennings was then unable to steer his vehicle and veered off the road striking the power line pole.  There were no injuries and Haas was ticketed for an alleged Motor Carrier Safety Violation. 

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MOSQUITO FOGGING IN GREENVILLE

 

Employees, of the City of Greenville, will be fogging for mosquitoes on Wednesdays, after 7:00 PM, when the wind is less than 15 miles per hour and when rain is not in the forecast.  If you have questions, please call the Municipal Building at 664-1644 or the Wastewater Treatment Department at 664-5043.

SHERIFF'S REPORT FOR MARCH

 

Bond County Sheriff Jeff Brown has released his financial report for March.  A total of $10,463.93 was paid to the Bond County Treasurer for the month.  This amount included Federal Prisoner Reimbursement of $6,184.68 along with inmate phone commissions, bail bond fees and $822.77 received from Bond County Transit. 

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