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STREATOR – Streator High School’s auditorium is on its way to completion and just in time for the spring musical. At Tuesday’s board meeting, Superintendent Matt Seaton said plans are to open just before the spring musical so that students can use the new auditorium to rehearse. The

LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru High School students will have the opportunity to participate in a free heart screening this spring. The Young Hearts for Life Program will be coming to LP high School on April 30th to provide free electrocardiograms to identify high school students at risk for

  LASALLE – After much anticipation, the city of LaSalle will soon be able to finance an over 100 acre expansion of Rotary Park. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that the $400,000 grant will go towards the Rotary Park Expansion project. Economic Development

OGLESBY – Oglesby’s Police Chief will keep his job after the Commissioner of Public Health and Safety attempted to terminate it last week.  There was standing room only at Oglesby’s city hall Monday night, when the council convened to hear the legal opinions of City Attorney James

MENDOTA – A Mendota man was arrested twice within 24 hours on charges of retail theft and burglary. The Mendota police department say that on Friday they were called to investigate a reported retail theft at a grocery store. The following day, 21-year-old Brandon E. Thompson was arrested at the

MENDOTA – The Friends of the Track Fund Committee made an appearance at Monday night’s Mendota City Council Meeting. A representative from the committee explained that the Elementary School had just resurfaced the track and that the committee was trying to raise half of the cost in order

UNDATED  – The American Red Cross has extended its urgent call for donors of all blood types to give blood. With influenza escalating across the country and preventing some donors from giving, and winter weather threatening to cancel blood drives, the Red Cross now has a critical shortage

OTTAWA – LaSalle County’s Naloxone Program saved 37 lives in 2019. According to the program’s annual report, nearly 62 doses of Narcan Nasal Spray were used by law enforcement in 37 overdose response incidents, less than the 100 doses in 54 incidents the year before. Zero deaths

OTTAWA – Conservation police say the search for a missing Ottawa woman could encompass a wide area after authorities located belongings near the Starved Rock Lock and Dam. According to Conservation Police Sergeant Phil Wire, the investigation continues using sonar equipment and drag hooks

OTTAWA – A weekend search in and around Starved Rock State Park have yielded no additional clues to the whereabouts of an Ottawa woman who has now been missing a week.  Ottawa detectives, Conservation Police, and area river rescue teams combed the areas around Utica where 45-year-old Tina