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MENDOTA – The 40th Annual Conkey Family Award winner was announced earlier this month at OSF HealthCare Saint Paul Medical Center in the Serenity Garden as part of National Health Care Week. Connie Falcon, a respiratory therapist from cardiopulmonary services, was named this year’s winner.

  OTTAWA – Ottawa Township High School graduate, Marta Johnson, is the 2021 recipient of the Don Morehead Community Service Scholarship. The $1,000 award will assist Ms. Johnson’s higher education goals. She will attend Hope College in the fall where she will pursue a degree in

SYCAMORE – The Sheriff of DeKalb County has announced he will be retiring in June. Sheriff Roger A. Scott has held the top spot since 1985, appointed to the position in the footsteps of his brother, former Sheriff Wilbur Scott. He began serving the citizens of DeKalb County as a deputy in

CHICAGO  — Motorists hitting the road this week to celebrate the unofficial kick-off to summer will be greeted with the most expensive Memorial Day weekend gas prices since 2014, according to the American Automobile Association. The national average has stabilized following the Colonial

  EARLVILLE – If you happen to receive an unsolicited mailer containing a packet of seeds in the mail, authorities urge you to not plant them.   The Earlville Police Department Thursday announced they had a resident contact them who had received an envelope with instructions and

SYCAMORE – Two buildings were struck by vehicles in DeKalb County Wednesday in unrelated incidents. The first occurred around 10 AM in Sycamore when authorities say a 37-year-old Hinkley man crashed into the Sycamore Police Department building for unknown reasons. The second was around 7:30

MENDOTA – Distress calls from a mother duck on the shore of Lake Mendota led to a dramatic rescue of ducklings trapped in the passageways under the spillway.   A woman fishing noticed the commotion and contacted authorities.  Around 9 PM the Mendota Fire Department arrived with ladders