The Illinois Valley Alzheimer’s Caring Friends Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, May 18 in the Peru Public Library.

Have you ever wondered about the history of the names behind area gymnasiums, fields and tracks. Here's where you can find out.

Streets Department Director Nick Stremlau said that the reasoning behind this is that grass left in the street could eventually clog storm drains.

The La Salle County 4–H will hold a Little Roots Gardening Program for children to learn about plants, pollinators and nature from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at Hy-Vee, 1651 Midtown Road, Peru.

Ellery Shutt won three individual races, giving him nine titles in his four-year varsity career, and Woodstock's boys track and field team repeated as Kishwaukee River Conference champions.

Henry softball scored 22 runs on 15 hits in a runaway 22-6 win in Streator. In other area games, Princeton beat Orion, St. Bede topped PC in softball while PC beat St. Bede and Bureau Valley bounced Galva in baseball.

Morrison rode the pitching of junior ace Ava Duncan, who scattered four hits with no earned runs and nine strikeouts, and the hitting of catcher Allie Anderson (3-for-4 with two RBIs) to a 5-2 win at Bureau Valley.

Kanon Baxley came through in the clutch again. The Kaneland baseball team beat La Salle-Peru 9-2 Tuesday behind Baxley's hot bat and Jack Frey's dominant pitching. The Knights stay in first place in the I-8 with two games left.

When Bureau Valley baseball coach Ryan Schisler was asked how he was doing Tuesday, he was all smiles. They scored 10 runs on 11 hits and helped by four Galva errors en route to 10-0 Lincoln Trail Conference victory on their home field.