Sterling City Council

A little over a week before her planned retirement on June 12, Brinkley, Sterling Police Department’s current community service dog, will be the city’s honorary mayor of the day.

Millie and her handler, Community Service Officer Mary Toth, started their first day working together at the station on Monday.

The Sterling City Council on Monday allocated $370,000 more of its American Rescue Plan Act funds, and the biggest recipient so far has been the downtown Sterling Theater.

The Sterling City Council agreed Monday not to object to a request for a special-use permit for a 5-megawatt solar farm just west of city limits, at Freeport and Science Ridge roads.

Over the objections of the city of Sterling, the Whiteside County Board approved issuing a special-use permit to build a 5-megawatt solar farm at Locust Street/state Route 40 and Science Ridge Road.

After negotiating with the owners of properties along the 400 block of East Third Street downtown that were destroyed or damaged by a fatal fire on July 7, the city will pay $138,000 for four sites it plans to redevelop.

Bath & Body Works, which has closed its shop in Northland Mall, opened Friday in Sterling Crossing across the street.

Starting May 1, Sterling residents with UTVs and certain other nonhighway vehicles will be able to buzz along many city streets.

With the year 2023 just one day from its end, join us as we take a look back at some of the memorable events that happened in the Sauk Valley month by month.

The Sterling City Council Monday approved updated plans for the long-anticipated redevelopment of the Lawrence Bros. and National Manufacturing sites, the main components of the city’s $300 million master plan for its Riverfront Reimagined project.

Thanks to the efforts of one very proud veteran’s widow, Sterling is now a POW-MIA City.

More store openings are coming soon to the new Sterling Crossing in the Lincolnway business corridor.

The City Council is working with Police Chief Alex Chavira to create an ordinance that would allow UTVs and other nonhighway vehicles to travel on city streets – as they do in Rock Falls and Dixon.

A 5-megawatt solar farm at Locust Street/state Route 40 and Science Ridge Road would not be compatible with Sterling's future industrial plans for that area, and so the City Council is submitting a letter of objection to the project.

A new steakhouse is coming to Sterling, and a package craft beer joint is opening a full-service tap.