7-16-2010

 

20 MONTH OLD DIES IN WELL ACCIDENT IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY

 

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department responded to a 911 call of a young child that had fallen into a well in Witt Tuesday morning.  According to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department and the Montgomery County Coroner, 20 month old Lia Marie Bertolino fell into the well on her family’s property.  She was transported to Hillsboro Area Hospital where she was pronounced dead just after noon on Tuesday. The Steihl-Dawson Funeral Home in Nokomis is handling the arrangements. 

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DONNELLSON TO RECEIVE NEW POLICE CAR

 

Donnellson has received a federal grant to help the village purchase a new police car. U.S. Representative, John Shimkus, announced recently the approval of a $19,100 Community Facility Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to purchase the police car. The village of Donnellson has also approved an additional $6,416 to outfit the vehicle with radio and other equipment. At this time the village has not purchased the vehicle but a village official expects the purchase to be made soon.

 

2 MEETINGS ONE NIGHT FOR UNIT 2

 

The Building and Grounds Committee and the full Unit 2 School Board met Monday night.  The topic of discussion was the water line repair and replacement needed at the Greenville Elementary School.  Two bids were received for the work.  Although the specs were the same for both companies one bid was over $161,000 while the other was $74,000. 

 

Once the board verified that both bids were for the same work and timeline, they unanimously approved the lower bid from Mid-Eastern Plumbing of Carlyle.  Work is expected to be mostly done by August 6^th. 

CUB SCOUT PACK 50 TO HOST TWO DAY BBQ

 

Greenville Cub Scout Pack 50 will host a BBQ at the Greenville Regional Hospital Thrift Shop parking lot today and Saturday from 10-2PM each day.  Part of the money raised will go to Challenger Baseball that helps disabled children play baseball. 

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CITY WEB SITE SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION

 

Mayor Alan Gaffner used the new business portion of Tuesday’s Greenville City Council meeting to spotlight the lack of information on the City of Greenville’s web site, that would be useful to people relocating to town. He pointed out that one executive who recently relocated to Greenville found our site lacking the basics he needed to research info for his move. 

 

City Manager, Dave Willey, pointed out there are professional web designers that specialize in municipal web sites, that he thought could do the work for around 15 thousand dollars paid over a 3 year period with the work completed quickly. Councilman Will Boyd thought there was talent at Greenville College that could do the same job much more economically. The city and the Chamber of Commerce maintain the web site.