Community Child Care Connection (525-2805) helps parents find and even pay for child care. Early Start (525-3163) is a District 186 program for children ages three to five. Screening process required and waiting lists possible. Head Start is based out of the Springfield Urban League, 1108 E. Cook (528-0893). Early intervention and education programs for […]
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Your Turn. . .5-22-03
Calling out to the Class of 1960 Dear editor, I’m part of a group of women from Feitshans High School, Class of 1960, trying to start a girls night out with all of our old classmates. We have met four times so far, always at different restaurants around Springfield for dinner. This has given us […]
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Your Turn 5-15-03
Selective memories To the editor: In the May 1, 2003, issue’s feature story “The Lost City,” about the book Living Lucy: The Diary of Lucy C. Williams, Cinda Klickna wrote, “Everyone should come away wanting to read and learn more about the people and places Lucy mentions.” We agree. That’s why we put Lucy C. […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 5-15-03
Phineas Fletcher The first tornado or the last hard freeze — I mark the dates in records that I keep, No wind too cold, no drifted snow too deep To calculate in inches or degrees. I’m partial to a good storm, one where trees Are tossed and barns leveled by winds that sweep The prairie […]
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Your Turn 2-13-03
No child left behind? To the editor: I am writing to applaud Illinois Times for publishing Cinda Klickna’s sobering school-crisis article “Empty Promises” [February 6]. After working for two years as a junior high school teacher at a low-income school in Arizona, I find that the “No Child Left Behind Act” is infuriatingly typical of […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 2-27-03
All Hail the Native Sons Of that renowned pair in whose universal fame this copperhead city basks in dubious honor– a poet and a politician– the former drank Lysol and the latter hopped an east-bound train, grew a beard and never came back. —Frank Stokes Local poets were writing about contemporary events in the Sangamo […]
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Your Turn 2-27-03
Lincoln Library Shortens Sundays Beginning March 2, the Lincoln Library at 326 S. Seventh will shorten its hours of operation on Sundays. The library will now open at 12:30 p.m. and close at 4 p.m. The new Sunday hours are a cost-cutting measure. Starting May 11, the library will be closed on Sundays for the […]
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Your Turn 2-20-03
Credit due In last week’s paper, we mistakenly lopped off the name of Illinois Heritage, the magazine of the Illinois State Historical Society, which published the original version of Stacy Pratt McDermott’s article on Abraham Lincoln, divorce lawyer. Divorce is still bad Dear Illinois Times, As a lifelong resident of central Illinois who has […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 2-20-03
Under the Dome Down the street from Lincoln TowerUnder the dome in the seat of powerHeavy are the heads that wear the crownsBecause five billion dollars must be found. Bipartisan effort come on let’s thinkAs we face a budget deficit on the brinkNot higher taxes that’s what they are cryin’To clean up this mess left […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 3-6-03
Sonnet for Springfield How we try to rise above the prairie, Minds in constant flux, reach stars from heaven, Pull beautiful dreams from far and airy Realms overruled by good old Orion. Yet we live to flows of rivers, seasons, And the fits and starts of constant commerce In the heartland of the rich in […]
