Bureau County

Illinois Valley Community College’s Continuing Education Center offers “Fundamentals of Fabrication” (ID# 76) from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, Sept. 2 through Oct. 7. The first three sessions will be at IVCC and the last three at Streator High School.

Beat the "dog days of summer" with these events in La Salle, Bureau and Putnam counties.

A day after La Salle-Peru High School announced it will require masks indoors, St. Bede Academy in Peru announced it will follow state and federal guidelines, including enforcing masks to be worn indoors by all students, faculty, staff and visitors to the school, regardless of vaccination status.

Illinois Valley Community College’s choir invites singers from the community to join its group Monday evenings.

Writer, translator, editor and web content developer Julia Messina has been named the new executive director of NCI Artworks.