Dee Clay hopes to acquire adjacent land so she can install a drive-through window and make other improvements to her restaurant on Springfield’s east side with a grant from the city’s share of recreational marijuana tax revenue. Clay, the owner of Clay’s Popeye’s BBQ, 1121 South Grand Ave. East, said devoting some of the revenue […]
Dean Olsen
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Mayor fires director of Lincoln Library
The director of Lincoln Library, who moved to Springfield from La Crosse, Wisconsin, when she was hired two-and-a-half years ago, says she was fired by Mayor Jim Langfelder Jan. 20. Rochelle Hartman, 59, told Illinois Times the following day that she was surprised and bewildered when Langfelder summoned her to City Hall and told her […]
