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Friday, April 26, 2013  Jonathon Pollock constructed a homemade levee to protect his house from rising floodwater.

Friday, April 26, 2013  The massive sandbagging effort in Meredosia has slowed down and now officials are patrolliong levees looking for weak points and boils.

Monday, April 22, 2013  While the Mississippi is slowly dropping ... the opposite is true for the Illinois River. See what's going on in Beardstown, Meredosia and Naples Illinois.

Friday, August 03, 2012  They can be seen on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Freedom Tower, in a farmer's field here in the Tri-States, and just about everywhere in between.

Saturday, July 07, 2012  The Jacksonville Journal Courier  reports Fred Holder and his wife, Nova, along with their 1-year-old granddaughter, Bianca, managed to get out of the house at first sight of flames coming from the roof of the home.

Wednesday, May 09, 2012  The School Board put Superintendent Ruth Schneider on paid administrative in April after allegations in a mass e-mail.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011  The groups say the plant should be paid for with private, not government, investment.

Monday, November 28, 2011  The coalition says it is negotiating a plan to buy for the project a portion of a power plant Ameren intends to soon close near the west-central Illinois village of Meredosia.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011  Ameren has just announced the closure of the Meredosia Energy Center by the end of 2011.

Monday, February 28, 2011  The wait is nearly over for the four Illinois counties hoping to be the FutureGen clean coal project's carbon dioxide storage site. The FutureGen Alliance will announce its selection Monday. The alliance is a group of coal companies and other firms working with the U.S. Department of Energy on FutureGen.

Sunday, November 14, 2010 

Wednesday, November 03, 2010  Morgan County has put its hat into the ring for the facility to store the carbon dioxide.

Thursday, August 12, 2010  Dubin says other communities are interested in FutureGen project

Friday, August 06, 2010  The project is designed to produce clean energy from coal by capturing and storing more than one million tons of carbon dioxide, which is about 90% of the Meredosia Ameren plants C02 emissions.

Thursday, August 05, 2010  The U.S. Department of Energy says it will drop plans to build a futuristic power plant in eastern Illinois but still use the location to store carbon dioxide underground.