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New Vermilion County officeholders to be sworn in today
Monday, December 01, 2008
DANVILLE – For the first time in 23 years, Dennis Gardner won't be wearing a uniform to work today.
Gardner will be sworn in this morning as the new Vermilion County circuit clerk. Gardner and four other countywide officeholders, all elected Nov. 4, will be sworn during a 9 a.m. ceremony at the Vermilion County Courthouse in downtown Danville.
Failure of school board election proposals creates quandary
Thursday, November 13, 2008
SIDELL – Ron Metzger went to bed on Election Day thinking that a ballot question asking whether voters wanted to change how Jamaica school board members are elected had passed.
It wasn't until this week that Metzger, the board president, learned it had failed; although more people voted "yes," it didn't pass in all seven congressional townships in the school district.
"It's a little disappointing," said Metzger, who supported the change that would have lifted voting restrictions and allowed voters to elect board members at large.
Residents astounded, ecstatic about Obama's election victory
Sunday, November 09, 2008
John Jennings cast the first vote in his Champaign precinct Tuesday, and he surprised himself by how emotional he'd felt.
"I was thinking about my grandparents and how I came up in Mississippi in this rural, painfully impoverished fashion," he said. "My grandparents were illiterate – they couldn't even have read a ballot – and I'm about to vote for the first African-American president.
"It moved me to tears."
Voters outside C-U defeated sales tax for school facilities
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Proponents of the 1-cent sales tax for school facilities used the property-tax relief promised by most school districts in the county as a selling point.
So they and school officials were surprised – very surprised – to see the proposal voted down in nearly every precinct outside Champaign-Urbana, including those offering the largest tax abatements in the county.
103rd House District: Jakobsson wins 4th term
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
URBANA – Urbana Democrat Naomi Jakobsson was cruising late Tuesday to a fourth term as state representative in the 103rd House District.
Jakobsson, 67, was outdistancing University of Illinois senior Frank Calabrese, a Republican, by close to a 3-1 margin in the district, which takes in much of Champaign-Urbana.
Champaign County coroner: Northrup wins
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
URBANA – If Duane Northrup doesn't win, he's not sure what he'll do.
"That'll be the first thing on my mind tomorrow," he said at Brookens Administrative Center in Urbana, where he and other local candidates gathered to hear results.
McCain's feeble showing didn't hurt local Republicans
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
It's not clear from Tuesday's election returns if Champaign County really liked Barack Obama or really disliked John McCain.
For the most part, Obama's vote totals Tuesday were ahead of John Kerry's 2004 numbers.
Vermilion County state's attorney: Brinegar wins
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
DANVILLE – Randy Brinegar said he's ready to make the jump from an assistant state's attorney to Vermilion County's top prosecutor.
In his first bid for public office, the rural Bismarck Republican narrowly defeated Danville Democrat Dan Brown, a private practice attorney, in Tuesday's election.
Sales tax defeated in tight vote
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
URBANA – A margin of 300 people decided the fate of the proposed 1 percent Champaign County sales tax for school facilities, with the tax ultimately failing.
Less than half of 1 percent of county voters decided the issue.
Champaign County Forest Preserve: Tax defeated
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
MAHOMET – The failure of a forest preserve tax increase vote isn't too disappointing to its proponents.
Champaign County Forest Preserve Executive Director Jerry Pagac said Tuesday night that given the economy, the timing was not right to ask voters for even a small increase in taxes.
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