Articles About City of Springfield

• Villagers question rise in airport noise

  By Brooke BryanDecember 3, 2009

  The “deafening” and “brain rattling” sensation of an F-16 jet veering near town on a training mission is, some villagers say, an “assault on the nervous system”— an inescapable sensation that “penetrates the body” and sometimes rattles windows.

  Other villagers find the occasional low flyover to be a mere annoyance, or even a curiosity to count with the kids.