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After failing to pass in 2022, Whiteside County voters will be asked to consider a public safety tax again in November to fund 911 emergency dispatch call center services.

Here is a list of property transfers for Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties for June 29 to July 5, 2024.

Resurfacing begins July 8.

Fire at 1501 First Ave. was contained in the attic.

Morrison, Erie students honored at Bradley University.

Students from Erie and Port Byron have been named to ISU's dean's list.

Property transfers filed in Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties from May 24-31, 2024.

Kirkwood Community College graduates announced.

Sterling students graduate May 24; Dixon and Rock Falls seniors graduate May 26.

The trade show was held Wednesday and Thursday nights, with 31 student-run businesses selling everything from jewelry and video promotions to made-to-order grilled cheese sandwiches.

The Erie-Prophetstown Panthers won the Ed Schmidt Invitational Track Meet at Erie High School on Friday, April 19, 2024. The boys team scored 89 points to win the meet with Morrison finishing second with 78 points followed with Milledgeville with 50. Kewanee (Wethersfield) won the girls meet with 106 points followed by Erie-Prophetstown with 77, Milledgeville with 41, Morrison with 23 and Savanna (West Carroll) with 16.

The musical, adapted for high school performances, was based on the 2004 American teen comedy film.

Mourners with vehicles of all kinds paid tribute Thursday, April 4, 2024, to Jayden Hanson, who was killed in a March 28 crash near Tampico. Jayden, 14, was one of three boys killed when the pickup truck they were riding in was hit by a semi at the intersection of Hahnaman and Luther roads. Also killed in the collision were Channing Swertfeger, 14, and Douglas “DJ” Dorathy, 16. All three were Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico High School/Middle School students.

An Erie man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl is facing more child sex assault charges in Whiteside County.

The Whiteside County Board is looking for another Republican to join its ranks in the wake of the Jan. 1 resignation of Larry Russell of Fulton.

Each school district within the Bi-County Special Education Cooperative area will conduct screenings of preschoolers on various dates from February to May 2024.

Several Sauk Valley-area students have been named to Northern Illinois University's 2023 dean’s list.

Nine area students also named to Marquette University’s fall 2023 dean’s list

Here's a collection of images showing the Christmas spirit in the Sauk Valley.

Ron Eckberg, who has visited the beaches of Normandy and written and spoken on World War II history, will speak at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14.

Local historian Ron Eckberg will be sharing Christmas on the Frontlines, the story of Christmas 1944 on the World War II battlefield, in Walnut and Erie.

Evening event also included visits with Santa, shopping, and activities for kids

Those hoping for snow on Saturday for Erie’s Hometown Holidays Lighted Parade were not disappointed – thanks to one local business. Hanford Insurance’s entry in the popular parade included a snow machine mounted in the back of a pickup truck that blew the fluffy white stuff up into the air and onto the float it was pulling which included an igloo with the inscription “Protecting the Magic”. The snow was the perfect touch for the evening with temperatures in the mid 40s. Before the parade, kids could write letters to Santa and enjoy other seasonal activities at the Erie Fire Station.

Here is a list of events set to take place in those towns.

Daryl Drennen of Prophetstown and Rob “Ike” Isaacson of Morrison wield tongs and tools and pound on anvils to make metal creations like the blacksmiths of decades and centuries ago.

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen announces funding to support energy needs, lower costs.

Whiteside County boasts 2 exemplary schools, 2 Lee County schools show need for improvement support.

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, a Democrat representing Illinois’ 17th Congressional District, has announced over $1.2 million in funding awarded to 12 rural and small businesses and agriculture producers to lower energy costs and strengthen their energy resilience.

Ultralight aircraft can fly from 200 feet up to 2,000 feet

The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Sunday through at least Wednesday for most of northern Illinois, including Lee, Ogle, and Whiteside counties, although relief appears to be a least a week away.

Morrison Community Hospital acquired the facility in May and held a ribbon-cutting Friday, Aug. 11.

Author at Harvest Bakery and More Aug. 10

Juan Antonio “Tony” Anaya is presumed to have died, City Manager Scott Shumard said in an update sent about 3 p.m.

It’s not yet known if the building destroyed by fire early Friday had smoke alarms, and there is no indication that an explosion preceded the blaze, Sterling City Manager Scott Shumard said in an email Sunday.

One person is missing and presumed dead after a fire Friday that demolished a three-story apartment building at 406/408 E. Third St. in downtown Sterling.

Two people were still missing Friday night after a fire destroyed a downtown apartment building earlier in the day.

An Erie man pleaded guilty to improper lane usage in the death of a 76-year-old, killed in a head-on collision nearly three years ago.

An Erie man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl.

Whiteside County deputies were dispatched to the intersection of Gaulrapp Road and Elston Road in rural Erie for a single-vehicle crash with injuries.

Two longtime local law officers are duking it out Tuesday for sheriff of Whiteside County: incumbent Democrat John F. Booker, 55, of Sterling, and Tampico Chief of Police Mike Lewis, 51, of Rock Falls, a Republican.

Whiteside County voters will be asked Tuesday to increase the countywide sales tax by 1%. Here's why.

Dixon Municipal Airport and Erie Airpark were among only six statewide to be singled out as Illinois Department of Transportation 2022 airports of the year Tuesday at the Illinois Public Airports Association Fall Conference in Galena.

Services are set for Jim Shirk, 40, of Erie, the kayaker who drowned Tuesday in the Rock River in Dixon.

The kayaker whose body was found in the Rock River near Rock River Estates in Dixon drowned, an autopsy conducted Thursday revealed.

Sixteen Sauk Valley-area school districts and the Whiteside Area Career Center are recipients of some of the $30 million in Illinois State Board of Education school maintenance grants.

The memorial service included placing a new marker at the grave of Alexander Thompson, the only known Revolutionary War veterans buried in Whiteside County.

Two of the Sauk Valley’s largest school districts – and apparently, most others – are making mask-wearing optional in the wake of a temporary restraining order issued Friday by a Sangamon County Circuit Court judge that nullifies Gov. JB Pritzker’s emergency provision issued in A

Rock Island’s former chief of police is Whiteside County’s new chief deputy.

No sign, no building … there’s nothing left that would give passersby on Moline Road any indication that they just breezed through a once bustling former railroad site between Erie and Lyndon.

Originally known as the home of the 19 cents hamburger, the Pink Pony closes after more than 70 years.