Pinckneyville commissioners on Monday approved a series of resolutions that will allow McDaniel’s Furniture and Appliances, Inc., to acquire property owned by the city on State Route 154.

The move is part of a comprehensive plan aimed at improvements in the city’s commercial district and infrastructure using money from Pinckneyville’s tax increment financing (TIF) fund and other sources.

Under the agreements approved on Monday, McDaniel’s will acquire and renovate the former Illinois Fish Farmers Cooperative building, along with approximately 4 acres of ground on the property. Read more » »

Kinky Friedman may have lost the governor’s election, but his furniture is still popular.

His staff posted a notice about their campaign office furniture on the Web site Craigslist — “None of it is TOO horribly ugly, some of it even matches, and all of it is FREE!”

People started showing up Tuesday more than three hours before staff opened the cigar-smoking, black hat-wearing musician and mystery writer’s former campaign office. Altogether, more than 150 people showed up for the giveaway.
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Home furnishing store Pottery Barn is recalling its gourd-shaped candles. They include five styles of individual candles and a set of eight mini-gourd candles.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the flame can get too high and could fail to go out when the candle burns to the bottom.

There haven’t been any reported injuries.

Consumers should stop using the candles and return them to Pottery Barn for a full refund. The candles are priced from $12 to $24 each.

Monday morning their home was bare, but now a Jackson family is enjoying a brand new look as WLBT and Miskelly Furniture kick off our third-annual Christmas Giveaway.

Jessie Anderson walks through her empty home, knowing this is the last time it will ever look like this.

“I’m getting a new set of furniture from Miskelly furniture. I was chosen for the Christmas Giveaway,” says Anderson. Read more » »

Looking for a bite to eat before or after a shopping trip?

The Shoppes at Yorktowne, a strip center nearing completion within a cluster of big-box retailers along Dunlawton Avenue, will add a half-dozen more food and beverage choices to the area in the coming weeks.

The tiled and turreted row of Mediterranean-style shops at 1665 Dunlawton Ave. shouldn’t have any trouble pulling in customers, said Richard Barker and Brendan Galbreath, lead developers of the complex. Located east of Interstate 95, the strip center sits within a few hundred yards of such retailing giants as Lowe’s Home Improvement, Super Target, Home Depot and Wal-Mart Supercenter. Traffic counts show an average of 33,000 vehicles passing by the complex each day. Read more » »