Local Headlines

OGLESBY – Boaters looking to venture out on the Vermillion River at Lowell are out of luck. Bob Herbst, who runs the only whitewater rafting on the river says business is closed this weekend due to low waters reaching just two feet. He says were going to need another downpour of a couple

    SPRING VALLEY –  A Spring Valley man facing murder charges is expected to enter his plea in court next week. 37-year-old Eddie Lee Metgen was charged in June with first degree murder of 28-year-old Marissa Roberts who was found dead in her Spring Valley apartment on April

  OGLESBY – The lower dells area, trails, horseback campground and most of the horseback trails have now reopened at Matthiessen State Park. Posted closures along the Vermillion River, including the connecting trail from the Dells area to the Vermillion River area remain wash out.

OGLESBY – Incoming Illinois Valley Community College agriculture student Miriam Hoffman of Earlville has been selected as this year’s FFA National Officer Candidate from Illinois, IVCC President Jerry Corcoran announced at Thursday’s board meeting. Last year Hoffman served as state FFA

OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College’s Transfer Academy successfully launched this summer at Ottawa Center as students banked college credit while still in high school, the IVCC board learned Thursday. IVCC reports that 22 Transfer Academy students are enrolled this summer at

OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Board unanimously voted to move forward with plans to cleanup a private property in LaSalle. At Thursday afternoon’s board meeting, a resolution was authorized to cleanup a rural 1.29 acre property at 290 N. 35th Road in LaSalle. Environmental

  AMBOY – The Lee County Farm Service Agency is reminding farmers the deadline for filing crop acreage reports for 2019 spring seeded crops is Monday, July 15th. After July 15th, farmers will be charged a late filing fee of $46 per farm in order to file a crop report.  Acreage reports

  WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — Animal cruelty charges have been filed against the operator of a suburban Chicago kennel where 29 dogs were killed earlier this year in a fire. Garrett Mercado of Woodridge was also charged with violation of owner’s duties charges on Wednesday. The charges are

OGLESBY – Evan Knoblauch, the 20-year-old Oglesby Firefighter who was battling cancer has passed away. The St Bede Graduate was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma in 2017.

WOODHAVEN LAKES – An EKG device funded through community efforts helped save the life of an elderly woman at Woodhaven Lakes over the Fourth of July weekend. According to the Sublette Fire Protection District, On Friday they were dispatched to Woodhaven Lakes for a 65 Year-old female