Category Archives: News

January 4, 2021 - The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) is urging residents to take time in the coming weeks to test their home for radon as part of Radon Action Month. Radon related health ...

January 4, 2021 - The City of Decatur is now accepting applications for the Decatur Small Business Rapid Relief Funds. The City has been awarded $1.2 Million from the DCEO CURE-ES program to provide t...

January 4, 2021 - The Macon County Conservation District continues to exercise caution to help control the spread of COVID-19. The Illinois Department of Public Health is asking people to stay home as...

January 1, 2021 - After a tumultuous 2020 that forced issues of race, criminal justice and policing to the forefront, justice reforms in Illinois will no doubt be at the center of discussion in 2021. ...

January 3, 2021 -Dimitra Woods, a registered nurse in the Decatur Memorial Hospital intensive care unit, is the hospital's Colleague of the Year. Woods personifies Memorial Health System values as she...

December 31, 2020 - Anthony Walker joined Byers & Co to talk with guest host Kevin Breheny about the variety of ways of helping the community.

December 30, 2020 - Decatur Trades & Labor Assembly have announced their endorsements for Decatur City Council. The group, representing 35 local unions and more than 13,000 union members and retir...

December 30, 2020 - Memorial Health System has received several thousand doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines this week and expects to complete the process of first vaccination dosage to its colleagues ...

December 30, 2020 - Following the recent launch of a new initiative to direct additional funds to support child care providers in the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), The Governor announced paren...

December 30, 2020 - The first case in Illinois was announced on January 24th, a Chicago area woman who had just returned from Wuhan China. It was just the second case in the US. The woman's husband so...