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LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru Township High School approved a Letter of Intent with Byrne and Jones Construction regarding the Howard Fellows Stadium Field of Dreams at Wednesday night’s Board of Education meeting. Superintendent Steve Wrobleski explained that the Letter of Intent would ensure

  OTTAWA –  Residents in Ottawa are now required to have their dog on a leash when walking them. The city council updated their leash law on Tuesday night, to ensure residents are keeping a handle on their dogs when walking them outside the boundaries of their property. City

OTTAWA – A multiple day episode of dangerous heat is expected beginning Thursday into the start of the weekend. This heat will expand into the area Thursday afternoon and persist through Saturday. Area cooling centers will be open when possible for residents in the area to escape the

LASALLE – Multiple agencies were involved in the arrest on July 1st of a LaSalle man on drug charges.  Agents from the LaSalle and Peru Police Departments, plus the Tri County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Investigation assisted in the investigation into alleged cocaine sales in Peru. 

PERU – A sealed warrant for two counts of unlawful delivery of Cocaine have put a Peru man in the LaSalle County Jail.  According Peru Police Chief Doug Bernabei 39 year-old Kilman R. Johnson was arrested on July 5th and taken to the LaSalle County Jail.  Johnson is being held at the

OTTAWA – The city of Ottawa will apply for a grant to fund part of their long time sewer control plan. In a public hearing at Tuesday night’s council meeting it was announced by the North Central Council of Governments that the city plans to apply for a $500,000 Community Development

OTTAWA – LaSalle County’s Farm Bureau President David Isermann is hoping  J.B. Pritzker’s request for an agricultural disaster declaration is approved. The Governor has issued several state disaster declarations, one involving the Federal Emergency Management Agency where

OTTAWA – Heat is expected to build up to dangerous levels beginning tomorrow into this weekend.  According to weatherology meteorologist Ray Miller our best chance to see high indices of 105 degrees will be on Thursday and Friday, with Wednesday kicking things off at an index of 100

  JOLIET – A former police officer from LaSalle County plead guilty in suburban Chicago on an aggravated robbery charge.  According to Will County Court records, Lowell “Max” Ambler on Thursday plead guilty to aggravated robbery, a class 1 felony.  Records also indicate