Halloween Links

 Here are some interesting Halloween related links for you to browse on this holiday

Vote for the Scariest Hotel in America 

What is the Most Popular Halloween Candy in Your State? In Illinois it is KitKat

History of the Headless Horseman

History of Trick or Treating

Selling a Haunted House

The Scariest Movie

The Origin of Candy Corn

Downtown Trick or Treating

 Carbondale Main street will sponsor a Downtown Scavenger Hunt with tables with candy set up at various locations in downtown Carbondale. There is a clue sheet posted on the CMS Fasebook page and the tables will go up from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Leaf Pick Up

 The city is offering  special leaf collection services through January

Carbondale’s Special Seasonal Leaf Collection Program will be offered during the months of November, December, and January. Calls for the vacuum collection service will be accepted from November 1, 2020, through January 31, 2021. The fee during this Special Program period is $25.00 for each collection (the regular fee for vacuum leaf collection is $35.00).                                                                                                                

City of Carbondale Residents desiring to participate in the program should first rake their leaves to the curbside or street side (please be sure not to block streets, sidewalks, ditches or gutters); then call the Maintenance and Environmental Services Office at 457-3275 and request a vacuum leaf collection.

Calls for service will be accepted 24 hours a day by leaving a message at the above number. Please be sure to leave your Name, Address, and Telephone Number and identify your request as “vacuum leaf collection”. If you would like to speak to a person directly, please call between the hours of 7:00 AM and 4:00 PM Monday thru Friday.

The City’s Landscape Waste Bag & Bundle program will continue as usual with normal pickups on Wednesdays. Those desiring collection of bagged leaves and grass, or bundles of brush, may continue placing their landscape waste in paper landscape waste bags or tied bundles and purchase and affix one sticker to each bag or bundle. Once you place the bags or bundles curbside; please call the number listed above and leave your Address along with your request for “Bag and Bundle” or “Landscape Waste Collection” and we will schedule you for the following Wednesday.  

Halloween Contest Winners

 The city has posted the winners of its three online Halloween contests here. Congratulations to those who won.

Bike Surgeon Moved

 The Bike Surgeon packed up and moved from its long time location on South Illinois this month. Now located in the old Quizno's storefront over in Carterville, on the north frontage road along Hwy 13.

Haunted House

 Looks as if someone is running a Haunted House on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Elks Lodge on North University. Windows have Halloween themes painted on them and "ghosts" hang in the third floor windows. Sign in the window says $11 donation to charity. Not sure what hours are. Looks like Thursday Friday and Saturday 4 p.m.-?

Wreck

 Pretty bad three car (at least) wreck this afternoon on East Main street where Main and Walnut split. Driver ran a red light and got hit by a car heading through the intersection.