Local Headlines

  MENDOTA – Del Monte announced Tuesday that they have found a buyer for the Mendota facility.  The sale is expected to be completed in late 2020.  The news was included in a stock holding report for the Philippines Stock Exchange.   The buyer wasn’t specified, but Seneca Foods ...Read more

LELAND, Ill. (AP) — Parents of students at Leland Elementary School are angry after an older student led an experiment that asked their children to open child-proof medicine bottles. Parents were not told in advance about Friday’s project at Leland Elementary School. On Sunday, the principal ...Read more

LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru High School’s Building and Grounds committee is putting the breaks on a solar panel proposal, for now. Plans for the solar garden proposed at the high school’s sports complex included a $25,000 annual rental fee over 20 years. The original design and ...Read more

LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru High School’s Building and Grounds committee is putting the brakes on a solar panel proposal, for now. Plans for the solar garden proposed at the high school’s sports complex included a $25,000 annual rental fee over 20 years. The original design and ...Read more

STERLING – A Peru man is one of 57 cadets who recently graduated from the Illinois State Police Academy. Earlier this month, Trooper Tavis Fivek reported for duty at District 1 in Sterling. Fivek a former telecommunicator for the ISP will ride along with a field training officer for the ...Read more

LASALLE – One man is in custody after a buy/bust operation in LaSalle. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team on Monday afternoon, a buy/bust operation conducted in the 1300 block of 5th Street in LaSalle resulted in the arrest of 28-year-old Blake A. Couch of ...Read more

PERU – Children brought to the Illinois Valley Community Hospital urgent walk-in clinic are receiving “busy bags” to help them pass the time while waiting for treatment. Sue Manning of Spring Valley, has already been putting bags together bags for kids at the emergency department and ...Read more

MENDOTA – Mendota Aldermen discussed the police and fire pension at Monday night’s city council meeting. Alderman Bill Hunt announced that the police pension fund would be increased by 4.47%, up to just over $611,000, with the fire pension fund increasing by .81% to around $182,000. Hunt ...Read more