Work Continues To Get C-U Weather Radio Station Back On Air
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Work Continues To Get C-U Weather Radio Station Back On Air

ByJim Meadows

UPDATE: Champaign’s NOAA Weather Radio station could be back on the air in a couple of months. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln announced Thursday, March 11, that a new lease has been signed on a transmitting tower for WXJ-76. The station broadcasts weather information from Champaign to a nine county area. But it’s…

‘Happy To Be Alive’ After Surviving COVID And A Double-Lung Transplant

‘Happy To Be Alive’ After Surviving COVID And A Double-Lung Transplant

ByChristine Herman

BRIDGEVIEW – In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayra Ramirez contracted the virus and ended up in the ICU on life support. She was 28 years old. The virus had severely damaged her lungs that her doctors concluded she would not survive the illness unless she got a double-lung transplant. In June, Mayra…