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Historian says Girl Scouts must reckon with its ‘difficult history' (opens the original)
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The Girl Scouts helped Amy Erdman Farrell survive a lonely, bullied childhood. Decades later, the historian said the organization still needs to reckon with the parts of its past it taught her not to see. Farrell will discuss that history, laid out in her award-winning book Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA, at Illinois Wesleyan University next week. Farrell holds a professor and chair of American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Dickinson
Bloomington family recovering, neighbor's home a total loss a month after explosion (opens the original)
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Four weeks after a house explosion on Old Peoria Court west of Bloomington sent eight members of the Hoefer family to the hospital, their pastor says all are expected to recover. "Given what happened, it's borderline miraculous that anybody survived," said Scott Boerckel, senior pastor of East White Oak Bible Church. The Aug. 25 blast ruled the Hoefer home a total loss. The fire spread to the home next door, owned by Ashley McAfee, and destroyed it, too. Three Hoefer family members were critical
McLean County waits for FEMA emergency declaration following August storms (opens the original)
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U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Peoria, said he is working with the Trump administration to secure federal aid for McLean County and surrounding counties damaged by storms in August. During a public appearance Wednesday in Bloomington, LaHood said he and Bloomington Mayor Dan Brady wrote and signed a letter asking for a federal disaster declaration for eight counties, including McLean. The letter supports Gov. JB Pritzker's Sept. 16 request for a presidential major disaster declaration from the Federa
El Paso church where Fulton Sheen was baptized to host beatification watch party (opens the original)
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Peoria-area native Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis — the first beatification ever held in Missouri. St. Mary's Church in El Paso will host a watch party for the ceremony in the same parish hall where Sheen was baptized. Beth Miller, a parish member and president of the Woodford County Historical and Genealogical Society, said people often forget Sheen's ties to El Paso. "I just don't know if they realize how important he's been to the faith," Miller said. "Some of
District 87 board approves budget showing $11 million deficit (opens the original)
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The Bloomington District 87 Board of Education approved its fiscal year 2027 budget Wednesday night following a public hearing. The spending plan projects a deficit of over $11 million, with revenues of roughly $109 million and expenditures of about $120 million. Chief Financial and Facilities Officer Michael Cornale broke down where the deficit comes from. "The majority of it is [the education] fund," said Cornale, adding the other portions come from operations and maintenance and working cash
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