Roses to the Effingham County Dive and Rescue Team for averting what could have been a tragedy early Friday morning. As EDN reporter Charles M…

Roses to the return of Major League Baseball. Your EDN editor is writing this hours before his Chicago Cubs were scheduled to take the field a…

It’s looking thorny for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat who has held that position since 1983, except for a brief s…

It seems nearly every day now the Effingham County Health Department is reporting new cases of COVID-19. For months, we seemed to be relative…

The Effingham Park District has kept its recreational finances in the red by just a few cents. That’s a roseworthy accomplishment in these eco…

It was certainly roseworthy news this week that signs are pointing to students returning to class in the fall. And roses to the officials fro…

Roses, sometimes, are a matter of perspective. The unemployment rate in Illinois fell by 2 percent to 15.2 percent in May, according to the st…

A couple thorny announcements arrived on Friday: First was this press release: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. J.B. Pritzker will …

Roses to those who intend to gather in downtown Effingham on Saturday to promote a message of peace and unity. Some demonstrations across the…