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🌱 Could a $100,000 fix change how 911 finds your home?

Carthage, Illinois Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • Could a $100,000 fix change how 911 finds your home?
  • How new play platforms are changing shelter dogs’ lives in Carthage
  • Hancock County grieves beloved K-9 Cato after tragic training accident

Also on today's calendar: Macomb Girls Varsity Volleyball @ Illini West and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What day of the year is trucker's day? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 84 and low of 72 degrees.
  • Saturday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., temps: high: 87, low: 68. 🌶 Hot!
  • Sunday: Not as warm; a p.m. t-storm, with a high of 74 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Hancock County grapples with navigation software discrepancies (whig.com) — Carthage-based Hancock County officials are weighing a costly fix to dangerous mismatches between 911 navigation software and rural road signs, which could delay emergency responders reaching you. Leaders are comparing the disruption of changing residents’ official addresses against spending up to $100,000 to replace road markers, while also pushing for better training for utility locators.
   

• ‘Today we did see a couple of dogs smile': Hearts of Hancock Humane Society installs first piece of canine environmental enrichment project (wgem.com) — In Carthage, the Hearts of Hancock Humane Society has just installed the first platforms for its new Canine Environmental Enrichment Project, funded entirely by local donations. Volunteers say the equipment is already helping shelter dogs burn energy, ease anxiety, and show off their personalities, which they hope will make them more adoptable as additional features like swings are added soon.
   

• Rest easy Cato, Hancock County Sheriff's K-9 passes away after neck injury (muddyrivernews.com) — Carthage and Hancock County residents are mourning K-9 Cato, the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office dog who died after a neck injury during a training exercise at Nauvoo Grade School. Officials say Cato was rushed to a Keokuk veterinary hospital but did not survive, and they’re asking the community to keep her handler, Deputy Milo Koechle, and fellow deputies in their thoughts.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • Hamilton County Board Talks Solar, Ambulance, and Courthouse Repair Wednesday – WRUL-FM (wrul.com)

Macomb

  • WIU, Macomb ranked among America's Most Affordable College Towns (quadcitiesbusiness.com)
  • Free Veteran and Senior Fair Coming to Macomb September 17 (977wmoi.com)
  • WIU to highlight new emergency operations center with ribbon cutting (wqad.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: 10-4, good buddy! (Thank you Jean H. for sending it in!)
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