Benjy Jeffords
Digital Media Production SpecialistBenjy Jeffords is a digital media production specialist at WSIU Public Broadcasting located at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Contact WSIU Radio at 618-453-6101 or email wsiunews@wsiu.org
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Contour Airlines began two round trips flights from Marion to O’Hare International Airport Tuesday morning. The thirty-seat jet had twenty seats removed to offer more legroom for passengers. -
During the 6th annual Ag Field Day at SIU researchers presented their findings to farmers and others in the Agriculture industry.Topics included preventing water run-off, testing water quality, double cropping, cover crops and more.
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SIU is having their annual Ag Field Days in Belleville and Carbondale this year
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The American Red Cross wants to encourage anyone that’s able, to donate and prevent a blood shortage. They’re currently sending out more blood to hospitals than they have coming in.
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The City of Carbondale will start a survey of historical properties in the next couple of weeks. The survey will identify and document historically significant structures and parcels on the northeast side of town.
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The Southernmost Illinois Conference on Criminal Justice takes place this weekend.The theme is “Reformation, Restoration and Re-Entry” and has multiple sessions over two days.
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Cairo has spent seven years without a grocery, until Friday morning. Rise Community Market is now open after months of renovations.
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Touch of Nature is hosting Illinois Youth Police Camp for the first time in Southern Illinois. The camp is run paramilitary style instilling discipline and core values to 13- to 17-year-olds.
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During the Spring the City of Carbondale changed some policies to encourage community gardens and pollinator-supportive landscapes.
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Southern Illinois Farming Alliance is a project of Food Works, a nonprofit organization that is working to create a sustainable food economy in Southern Illinois.
