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Rodney K. Miller
Rodney Miller is the creator and co-host of ''Small Town Big Deal'', an American nationally syndicated broadcast and cable television show. Miller and co-host Jann Carl, a former TV reporter and weekend anchor with ''Entertainment Tonight'', travel the country sharing uplifting stories about American communities and people. Small Town Big Deal first aired on September 6, 2012, on the RFD-TV cable network. Since then, ''Small Town Big Deal'' has entered national broadcast syndication and appears on over 150 local stations (80 percent of the United States) each week. It also began broadcasting on the Armed Forces Network in the Fall of 2017. Prior to television, Miller was an executive in the agricultural machinery industry as CEO of Montana Tractors in Springdale, Arkansas, and McCormick International, USA in Duluth, Georgia. A businessman, farmer, and entrepreneur, he also operates the Buford Corn Maze in the Atlanta metro area. Miller has said that "in a lot of ways the maze is ...
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Benton Consolidated High School
Benton Consolidated High School (BCHS) is a public high school located in Benton, Illinois, United States. The campus is located in a city setting on Benton's east side, and has been operating (though in separate buildings) since 1888. Benton Consolidated High School is in a school district separate from the K-8 schools in and around Benton. Athletics The school's athletic teams (Benton Rangers) compete in the Southern Illinois River-to-River Conference. The Rangers' main rival is the West Frankfort Redbirds, located seven miles south of the BCHS campus. Sports Benton High School offers the following sports: * Baseball * Basketball * Cross country * Football * Golf * Softball * Track * Volleyball * Wrestling State championships Team *1979-80 - Girls' basketball, Class A * 2004 - Competitive dance (pom division), Class 1A * 2005-06 - Girls' track & field, Class A * 2007-08 - Girls' track & field, Class A * 2013 - Competitive dance (hip hop division), Class 1A * 2014 - ...
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Rend Lake College
Rend Lake College (RLC) is a public community college in Ina, Illinois. It is part of the Illinois Community College System (ICCS). History Rend Lake College was founded in 1955 as Mt. Vernon Community College to allow students from High School District No. 201 the opportunity to receive post-secondary education similar to university curriculum. Authorized by the Illinois General Assembly and signed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. in 1961, the legislation enacted created the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). The IBHE was tasked by statute with formulating a Master Plan for Higher Education in the state of Illinois. In July 1964 the higher education master plan was published by the IBHE, which led to the Junior College Act of 1965. Soon thereafter, the institution was officially renamed Rend Lake College when it was organized December 20, 1966. The Mt. Vernon Township High School and its faculty served as the initial facilities for the college when it began in ...
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Small Town Big Deal
''Small Town Big Deal'' is an American television news magazine that runs in first-run syndication with a focus on human interest stories in rural America. The TV program is co-hosted by Rodney K. Miller and Jann Carl. Together, they travel the United States sharing inspirational stories about communities, people, events and happenings. The show first aired on September 6, 2012 on the RFD-TV network. In 2017, the show was being viewed on over 150 local stations and 80 percent of the country each week across America, including several of the ABC Owned Television Stations, which air the program in weekend morning graveyard slots, as well as low-power and digital 24-hour networks Youtoo America (which airs the show several times a week), AMGTV, Total Living Network, CTN Lifestyle and Heartland. ''Small Town Big Deal'' has received the Parents Television Council Seal of Approval. Episodes ''Small Town Big Deal'' has aired nearly 100 episodes since September 2012 and broadcast from 15 ...
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Jann Carl
Jann Carl is a co-host and part owner of the syndicated TV show ''Small Town Big Deal''. Carl and her co-host, Rodney K. Miller, report on uplifting stories about people, places and events throughout communities big and small across the United States. The show first aired on September 6, 2012, on the RFD-TV cable network. ''Small Town Big Deal'' has aired almost 100 episodes since 2012 and is now viewed on network and local television stations in nearly 80 percent of the United States. Carl is also well known for her 14 years at '' Entertainment Tonight''. She is nationally respected for her interviews with influential newsmakers. Some of the most famous include Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Diane Sawyer and Barack and Michelle Obama. She began as a news reporter at WLS in Chicago. She later moved to Los Angeles, where she reported for KABC, and hosted KABC’s “Eye on L.A.” magazine show. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, C ...
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Entertainment Tonight
''Entertainment Tonight'' (or simply ''ET'') is an American Broadcast syndication, first-run syndicated news broadcasting news magazine, newsmagazine program that is distributed by CBS Media Ventures throughout the United States and owned by Paramount Streaming. ET also airs in Australia on Network 10. Format The format of the program is composed of stories of interest from throughout the entertainment industry, exclusive set visits, first looks at upcoming film and television projects, and one-on-one interviews with actors, musicians and other entertainment personalities and newsmakers. A one-hour weekend edition, ''ET Weekend'' (known as ''Entertainment This Week'' until September 1991), originally offered a recap of the week's entertainment news, with most or all episodes later transitioning to center (either primarily or exclusively) around some sort of special theme; though the weekend edition now utilizes either format depending on the episode, most commonly, the format of ...
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McLeansboro, Illinois
McLeansboro () is a city in Hamilton County, Illinois, Hamilton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,675 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The estimated population as of 2018 was 2,773. It is the county seat of Hamilton County. McLeansboro is part of the Mount Vernon, Illinois micropolitan area. Geography McLeansboro is located at (38.093115, -88.536213). According to the 2010 census, McLeansboro has a total area of , of which (or 95.22%) is land and (or 4.78%) is water. History The city was named for Dr. William McLean, an early settler who had officially resided there in 1821 . Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 2,945 people, 1,265 households, and 747 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 1,444 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.10% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.78% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.03% Native American (U.S. Census), ...
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Benton, Illinois
Benton is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Illinois. The population was 6,709 at the 2020 census. History Founding Benton, the county seat of Franklin County, took its name from the prominent senator from Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton (politician), Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858). The village of Benton was organized in 1841 on of property donated by John Ewing and Walter S. Akin. In 1902 the village became a city, and incorporated under the Mayor-commission government, mayor/commissioner form of government. Franklin County was platted in 1818, the year Illinois became a state, at twice its current size. It included the territory that is now Williamson County, Illinois, Williamson County. In 1839 the county was split roughly in half and the county seat was permanently fixed "at a hill at the south end of Rowling's Prairie", the site of the future city of Benton. The Franklin County Courthouse (Illinois), Franklin County Courthouse sat in the center of the Pub ...
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Ocilla, Georgia
The city of Ocilla is the county seat of Irwin County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 3,498 at the 2020 census. Ocilla is part of the Fitzgerald Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Ocilla was founded in 1880, incorporated as a town in 1897, and finally re-incorporated as a city in 1902. It is not clear whether Ocilla is named for the Seminole Chief Osceola, for an Oswichee Native American tribe, or, as proposed by historian John Goff, it could be an adaptation of the place name Auscilla. A 1981 ''Fitzgerald Herald-Leader'' says that "a tribe of Oswichee Indians once lived near the Ocmulgee River on land known in 1818 as Irwin County." There, towns were called Oswitchee and Ocilla, and sometimes Ocichi. The French census shows that a town called Ocichi existed there in 1750. A later census in 1832 gives Oswhichee as the name of another Indian village close to Osochi." It goes on with "The town's name was changed seven times. It was called by the Indians Assile, n ...
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