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SPRING VALLEY – Spring Valley’s city council approved hiring on a part time firemen and means of more revenue for the department. At Monday nights meeting, members of the fire department packed city hall to support the approval of a paid day time firemen’s position, that will be ...Read more

LASALLE – LaSalle Peru High School will have a new principal next year. Christopher Jackson of San Bernardino California, comes with over 20 years of teaching as well as coaching and athletic director experience.   Jackson earned his degree in mathematics at California State University ...Read more

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois man faces a felony charge accusing him of leaving a voicemail for state Sen. Sue Rezin’s office threatening to commit a mass school shooting. 33-year-old Steven A. Tutko of Peru is to be arraigned Thursday and is in custody at the LaSalle County jail ...Read more

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a northern Illinois man to life in prison for beating his wife and teenage stepson to death with an aluminum baseball bat in 2015. Lake County Judge James Booras called the crime “despicable” Monday when he sentenced 50-year-old Armando ...Read more

SPRING VALLEY – Spring Valley is coming up with a game plan for repaving and spray patching roads. In a streets and alleys committee meeting last week, John Mitchell Avenue, from the McDonald’s on Dakota street to Kirby Park, on W Devlin Street was addressed as a high priority to ...Read more

OGLESBY – An elementary education scholarship has been established with the Illinois Valley Community College Foundation in memory of longtime educator and World War II veteran Clarence Sapienza of Peru. The annual scholarship was set up by Clarence’s widow Myrle and son Mike and wife ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD – State Rep. Lance Yednock, D-Ottawa, is recognizing the importance of law enforcement both at the local and state level throughout Illinois during National Police Week. Police Week is an observance that pays tribute to the local, state, and federal peace officers who have died, ...Read more

OTTAWA  – OSF HealthCare is pleased to introduce the new OSF Medical Group – Ear, Nose & Throat and Audiology practice in Ottawa. Beginning in June, the office will feature Tracey Childers, D.O., Board Certified in Otolaryngology and Otolaryngic Allergy, as well as Anna Taravella, CCC-A, ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois State Police (ISP) Troopers across the state participated in Distracted Driving Awareness Week from April 21-27, 2019.  During this enforcement campaign Troopers gave special attention to distracted driving, while still enforcing other traffic violations.  A press ...Read more

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — The central Illinois settlement where Abraham Lincoln came of age and began his public life is celebrating its centennial as a state park.  The donation of land near present-day Petersburg that became Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site will be feted from 10 ...Read more