Lyndon news
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.