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Voters this week in Whiteside, Lee, Ogle and Carroll counties determined who will make the important decisions regarding their communities, schools, townships, fire departments, parks and libraries. See the results here.

Whiteside, Lee, Ogle and Carroll county voters get to decide who will make the important decisions regarding their communities, schools, townships, fire departments, parks and libraries.

Beginning May 12, donated pasta items can be delivered to New Life Church at 702 W. Lynn Blvd., Sterling, during office hours from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

The screening’s goal is to provide parents a measure of their child’s development in areas of learning importance. The Bi-County cooperative and schools will offer preschool programs for special needs children ages 3 to 5.

A Lyndon man has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to domestic battery and a weapons charge.

$600,000 has been raised to cover SVCC tuition costs, in perpetuity, for Polo students who earn tuition through volunteerism.

To address rapid patient growth, Morrison Community Hospital will build a $14 million two-story addition on the hospital’s south side. The groundbreaking is set for 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5.

FFA students from several local high schools work Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, to make easy meals for the underserved.

Woodlawn Arts Academy will present its fall musical theater production, Disney-Pixar’s “Finding Nemo Kids," at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11; 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at Centennial Auditorium at Sterling High School.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources announces nearly $1 million for Natural Areas Stewardship grants.

The dean’s list honors students with a semester grade-point average of 3.5 or higher. Students named to the president’s list received a semester GPA of 4.0.

Ryan Poulter accused of drawing firearm from waistband; faces multiple weapons charges.

A total of 257 full- and part-time Sauk Valley Community College students have been named to the president’s list for the spring semester. Another 137 students made the dean’s list.

A two-story addition will be constructed at the hospital, with a little under 12,000 square feet of space available on each floor.

The annual event is held in Richmond Park in Lyndon on the first Sunday of June.

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.

Three students are dead following a crash at the intersection of Hahnaman and Luther roads in rural Tampico; a fourth teen sustained serious, but nonlife-threatening, injuries, sheriff says.

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

Farmers National Bank has selected Morrison Community Hospital as the recipient of its Funding New Beginnings grant for 2023.

99-year-old recalls his service in the South Pacific

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

More than 50 tractors chugged out of the Whiteside County Fairgrounds Monday morning

A 22-year-old Lyndon man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in late June 2022.

His goal — in entering this competition with 230 others — is to reach the final round. That’s where the prize money kicks in.

A 22-year-old Lyndon man already jailed on a property damage charge was hit Friday with six counts of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

It’s a tribute to a man who dedicated his life to conservation and preservation and was known locally as the “Godfather of the Prairie.”

Alexander Ottens of rural Lyndon wins the 2023 Lee-Ogle-Whiteside Regional Spelling Bee and advances to the nationals that start May 28 in suburban Washington, D.C.

Twenty-seven candidates are hoping to become Whiteside County Board members Tuesday. Only 18 seats are available, however. Here's who's running:

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

A friendship forged in a 1980s mission to end the Cold War is seeing a revival of sorts, as the birthplaces of President Ronald Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agree to work together, each to promote the other.

Moline Road in Whiteside County will be closed at the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway crossing 2.5 miles west of Lyndon Aug. 8 through 13.

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.

Entrants can register at Richmond Park starting at 8 a.m.

The Whiteside County jail inmate found unresponsive in his cell around 1:30 Friday morning, the victim of an apparent suicide by hanging, was a 22-year-old Rock Falls man, Coroner Joe McDonald confirmed.

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.

A fundraiser is being held to help pay the funeral expenses of a Rock Falls man killed Wednesday in a two-car collision on Sterling’s west end.

Whiteside County felonies for September 1 through November 10, 2021

Jacy and Scott Sandrock of Bettendorf, Iowa are the parents of twin sons born at 9:33 a.m. and 9:38 a.m., respectively, on March 12, 2021 at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Police reports for Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Four new community solar farms, owned by Engie, went online Tuesday in Whiteside County.