Eastern Orthodox Easter celebration getting under way

Holiday observances, which follow Julian calendar, take place at churches this weekend

URBANA – Thousands of fresh flowers, rose petals and bay leaves perfume some church sanctuaries this weekend.

Also on this date

• Market Place Mall keeping up with taxes
• Several burglaries to Champaign homes, vehicles
• Champaign man sentenced for having heroin for sale
• Urbana man arrested for indecency
• Newell Township highway commissioner's trial delayed
• Area's only black-owned radio station celebrates 2 decades
• Accident yields injuries, DUI charges
• Bourbonnais man accused of wrecking stolen forklift
• Skilled volunteers needed to help injured vet in Mahomet
• Obituaries

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