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News | Thursday, May 5,2005

Clearing a hurdle

By Todd Spivak
Garrison Group Inc. is inching forward with its plans to build a shopping center on the site of the old Esquire Theatre property on South MacArthur Boulevard. The city’s zoning commi
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Feature | Thursday, May 5,2005

The return of Hunter Lake

By Todd Spivak
Don Durbin wistfully recalls his early years on the family farm. He stalks through the tall, windswept grasses and points to areas where his children once brushed ponies and petted hogs.
Feature | Thursday, April 28,2005

Got water?

By Todd Spivak
Since he was a child, Brett Dixon’s drinking water had come from the brick-lined well in his family’s front yard. Their home — a quaint stone structure tucked behind a
Feature | Thursday, April 21,2005

excursions 4-21-05

By Todd Spivak
Learning about the human body may conjure bad memories of impenetrably thick textbooks, anatomy charts with words too big to pronounce, and a creepy skeleton hanging in the corner of a class
News | Thursday, April 14,2005

Finally

By Todd Spivak
Some 25 years after the idea was first hatched to honor Abraham Lincoln with his own presidential museum, folks will finally get a chance to see what all the fuss has been
News | Thursday, April 7,2005

Security concerns

By Todd Spivak
Paulette Roberts, a veteran caseworker at Helping Hands, is well known for her derring-do. When fights erupt, as they inevitably do at Springfield’s cramped and crow
News | Thursday, March 31,2005

Class acts

By Todd Spivak
The lone contested race for the Springfield School Board features two North Side residents with professional backgrounds in science and records of community service. Both vow
Feature | Thursday, March 24,2005

Out, but not down

By Todd Spivak
It was six years ago this week that Rep. Larry McKeon, the first and only openly gay state lawmaker in Illinois, outed the homosexual siblings of three Republican legislators. McKeon lashe
News | Thursday, March 17,2005

Canned news

By Todd Spivak
The Champaign-based sister station of WCFN-TV (Channel 49), which will begin airing a half-hour news broadcast in the Springfield market next month, was singled out in a New
News | Thursday, March 10,2005

Razing the roof

By Todd Spivak
Homeless for seven years, Nancy has spent much of this winter huddled under blankets on the front porch of a derelict building in downtown Springfield. The semienclosed wooden porch offers