Planning panel for Urbana schools in place

URBANA – Twelve people from around Urbana have a mission.

Their challenge, now that the school board has accepted them, will be to peer 10 years into the future of Urbana schools and come up with something more than fixing stairs or repainting an entrance.

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• Obituaries