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CORDOVA - Cordova officials have been working on plans for a proposed recreational park which will include a gazebo.

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CHAMPAIGN ? A Tuscola man is accused of a home repair fraud in Champaign. Justin Henry, 32, is due back in Champaign County Circuit Court April 21 on a felony charge of home repair fraud. His bond is $5,000.

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A Yakima grandmother, raising five of her grandsons. Julie Cruz gets no help from the state to do it. She’s in desperate need of home repairs and a new vehicle, but was turned down by ABC’s Extreme Home Make-over show. But this week she got a big surprise.

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URBANA ? The following criminal cases were resolved recently in Champaign County Circuit Court with pleas entered by defendants or sentences imposed by judges: ? Miguel Kendrick, 30, whose last known address was in the 2400 block of North Neil Street, Champaign, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced to five years in prison. He admitted that on June …

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Effective March 1, the interest rate on USDA Rural Development home loans has been reduced to 4 percent. Home prices are at the lowest level in years.

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Good Shepherd Episcopal Church?s Episcopal Youth Community raised $3,050 at their Feb. 15 Feast of St. Cocoa fundraiser for Holy Cross Anglican School in Belize, the site of their 2008 and 2009 mission trips. The youth group entertained about 200 people with songs, skits and instrumental pieces, and provided an array of homemade chocolate desserts in honor of ?St. Cocoa.?

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SIERRA VISTA ? More than $600,000 worth of community development projects are up for consideration with only about $320,000 in grant funds to go around.

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When Jennifer Korzelius and her husband, Matt, began pricing a new roof for their Wheatfield home, the range of bids they received was staggering. ?They were all over the place. The lowest was $7,000. One guy wanted as much as $25,000,? she said. ?I was like, ‘What is going on here?’?

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Money is still available to repair houses damaged by Hurricane Ike in September.

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On a freezing Saturday morning, a handful of people braved the weather to watch Stephanie Kirchner give a clinic on tiling at the Home Depot in Cockeysville, Md.

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