Amboy

Officers help with coordinating events around Section 2 and with doing chapter visits for the upcoming school year.

Goal of the expo is to make agriculture relevant for fifth-grade students.

FFA recognition will come at state convention in June.

Cooperative serves 3,000 families in eastern Iowa and western Illinois.

Pound and 5-pound bags of seed mix are for sale through April 20 at the Lee County Farm Bureau.

Lee County Summer Agricultural Institute applications accepted through May 6

A Mendota man with a previous conviction for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old in LaSalle County is in Lee County jail facing life in prison, charged with sexually assaulting a then-13-year-old girl in Amboy in February.

Foul play is not suspected in the death of a rural Paw Paw woman whose body was found Tuesday morning.

More than 47 fire departments will be attending from areas with the farthest attendees coming from the Wichita West Fire Department.

Recipients of the Books by the Bushel included Dixon Family YMCA, Sauk Valley Christian Home Educators, Faith Christian Preschool and Franklin Grove Public Library.

MORRISON – The 28-year-old convicted Amboy child sex offender now charged with child sex assault in Lee and Whiteside counties is accused of assaulting the same girl both times, court records show.

Police are looking for a 28-year-old Dixon man charged with seven counts of sexually assaulting a juvenile girl in 2019.

Chris Tennyson, superintendent of Lee, Ogle and Whiteside County Regional Office of Education, noted that one of the big things with teachers retiring early seemed to be the added stress of dealing with COVID.

Amboy opens registration for Jan. 25 blood drive

The University of Illinois Extension for Carroll, Lee and Whiteside counties released its seasonal calendar, which includes two programs designed to directly help farming.