Shaw Local News Network Editorial Board

Five girls from the L-P Crunching Cavs won medals at the IKWF State Tournament.

The project at Knapp Drive and Weber Road is currently scheduled to start around April 29.

The State’s Attorney’s Election Fraud Hotline number is 815-727-8872.

Event will include a Q&A with three school board candidates and a mayoral candidate.

With the upcoming Winter Storm Warning calling for dangerous weather conditions Thursday through the weekend, St. Margaret’s Health is opening warming centers for the public at its Spring Valley and Peru hospitals.

The featured movie will be "Jonah: A Veggietales Adventure." This animated Christian musical comedy film contains adventure and a message of giving and receiving second chances.

Dixon American Legion Post 12 will serve chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, a vegetable, roll, salad and dessert from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, dine in or carry out, at the post at 1120 W. First St.

Rock Falls Tourism to close out summer events with final Jammin' on the Rock and Food Truck Friday

Whoever is elected Illinois secretary of state in November — Democrat Alexi Giannoulias or Republican state Rep. Dan Brady — we hope the winner maintains the strong support for libraries exhibited by Jesse White, who is leaving the office after six terms.

Friends of the Princeton Public Library will hold its July 2022 book sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 21 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, July 22.

A survey of Shaw Media readers all across central Illinois shows deep concern over how inflation has influenced their lives, and how it might do so in the future.

The Alzheimer’s Caring Friends Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, June 20, in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Hall at 344 Joliet St., La Salle.

A Metra commuter train on the Union Pacific West line was stopped Tuesday morning in Geneva after fatally striking a woman, according to the city of Geneva and a Metra alert.

Opinion: This being an election year and all, perhaps spines will stiffen and we can get some more significant ethics laws in Illinois. We’re not holding our breath.

Our View: The lessons our children are learning this week have nothing to do with education, and more to do with the worst of the worst of politics.