OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College has awarded over $1 million to 1,775 students. They distributed over $1 million last week to more than 1,700 students who persisted in spring classes. Financial Aid director Eric Johnson said his office transmitted $1,039,644 from the ...Read more
MARSEILLES – The Marseilles Police Chief and the City Council honored men and women who acted to save the life of a resident last week. Dispatchers Stacy Fuentes, Jacqueline Boyer and Don Fransisco were able to respond quickly to administer CPR instructions over the phone to Kaylee White, ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Transportation have announced a new app that provides audible route navigation for oversize and overweight loads. The IDOT Central Office’s Bureau of Operations won a top prize in the annual Innovative Ideas Contest for their audible route guidance ...Read more
PERU – The Illinois Valley Sunrise Rotary, along with the North Central Regional Betterment Coalition, will be providing 2,000 books to be distributed by area pediatricians. The new books will be for families when they visit the doctor for both the infant’s 6-month checkup and their ...Read more
OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College’s Medical Assistant program celebrated seven gradates at its first graduation ceremony recently in the Dr. Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Centre. Graduates include Brandee Bernhardt and Emily Mitchell of Oglesby, Christine Buckley of Ransom, ...Read more
CARLYLE, Ill. (AP) — A 40-year-old Kentucky man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the December shooting death of an Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Ray Tate was sentenced Friday for the killing of ...Read more
MENDOTA – The Mendota Area Christian Food Pantry received over 700 pounds of goods through a donation drive at Sullivan’s Foods in Mendota on Friday. Sponsored by Triple Service Inc., The County Collection cash and goods drive, secured $319 and 786 pounds of food in just a few ...Read more
JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys offered starkly different explanations Friday for the fatal beating of an Illinois prison inmate four years ago in closing arguments before a jury began deliberating in the trial of two ...Read more
OGLESBY – This summer, Illinois Valley Community College students’ Sabrina Belmonte of Mendota and Raven Bridges of LaSalle will be taking advantage the college’s study abroad opportunities. Bridges is a first-year student looking to graduate with her AS and then transfer to the ...Read more
OGLESBY- Illinois Valley Community College nursing instructors Chrissy Boughton and Tracey Antle led a monthlong campaign that collected a cartload of supplies for the Illinois Valley PADS shelter. The drive was the idea of students in Mental Health Nursing program who are required to do ...Read more
