Holiday Lights Contest

 The city is sponsoring a holiday house lighting contest. Send in a photo of your house and your residence will go on a map showing all of the entries and may win a $100 gift card from Ace Hardware

Koppers Site

Ever wonder how long it takes to clean up a hazardous waste site. Beazer's has been working on cleaning up the former Kopper's railroad tie treatment site in the northeast side of Carbondale since at least May of 2016

Lights Fantastic

 Just a reminder that the Lights Fantastic parade takes place this Saturday at 6 p.m. Sl Illinois from the North side of the square down to Wall Street and all of the streets crossing it will close at 5 p.m. and reopen at 8. Traffic will flow as normal on South 51 though.

Garden Grove Event Center

 
According to this post on Facebook, Garden Grove Event Center closed last week, effective immediately. The gym side of the operation is still open apparently, just the wedding venue and event side has shuttered