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Local students represent Adams Electric Cooperative, Adams Telephone Co-Operative during Youth Tour to D.C.
CAMP POINT, Ill. — Hundreds of high school students from across the United States annually embark on an educational and inspirational journey to the nation’s capital city. Sponsored by Illinois’ electric and telephone cooperatives, 54 students departed Springfield by bus on June 14 to Washington, D.C., for a week-long trip of a lifetime.
Ameren Illinois working to increase visibility with LED streetlights in Beardstown, Mount Sterling
BEARDSTOWN, Ill. — Ameren Illinois is entering its eighth-year of a multi-year streetlight replacement program to upgrade neighborhood streetlights throughout its 43,700-square-mile service territory with more energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) streetlights. For decades, most streetlights in the United States have used high-pressure sodium (HPS) technology, which emits orange-yellowish light....
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