Coal City News

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COAL CITY HIGH School associate principal Susan Rutkowski will close out her career in education this month.

Even though school just let out for the summer, we are already talking about going back to school, or at least going to the Back to School Fair.

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Coal City Middle School Principal Frank Perucca, of Braidwood, will become assistant superintendent in the Will County Regional Office of Education on July 1. Perucca was appointed by regional Superintendent Shawn Walsh, of Elwood, who was appointed to his post in February.

The First United Methodist Church of Morris, 118 W. Jackson St., invites children who have completed 3-year-old preschool through fifth grade to join in Vacation Bible School.

Jason W. Howland, 37, of Morris, was arrested by Morris police May 30 on a charge of domestic battery.

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Born July 18, 1956, in Joliet, Ill., to the late Earl Thomas and Margaret Mae Kimbro, Thomas was a graduate of Reed-Custer High School with the Class of 1976.

Mr. John Friedle, long-time resident of Coal City, Ill., died Monday, June 3, 2013, in Mesa, Ariz., after an extended illness.

ZAFRAN received boquets of flowers from her first and last students. The photo bouquet features the faces of her final class of students at Coal City Elementary School and a vase of roses arrived from two students from her first grade class in 1977.

Knights of Columbus Council 1574, in cooperation with Heartland Blood Centers, will hold a community blood drive from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 19 in the Madonna Room at Assumption Parish's Berst Center.

Posing in the area where additional Saratoga Tower parking is proposed are, from left, Lion Lori Linn, Morris Lions Club president; Darlene Schneider, GCHA pesident; Lion Ryan Howe; T. Brent Newman, GCHA CEO; and Lion Irene Leopold, incoming Morris Lions Club president.

I saw an article in the prarie shopper sometime in early december concerning low cost pet immunizations.

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I saw an article in the prarie shopper sometime in early december concerning low cost pet immunizations.

The First United Methodist Church of Morris, 118 W. Jackson St., invites children who have completed 3-year-old preschool through fifth grade to join in Vacation Bible School.

I saw an article in the prarie shopper sometime in early december concerning low cost pet immunizations.

Updated at 9:15 p.m. A tornado warning for Will County has expired. A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 9:30 p.m. and a flash flood warning remains in effect until 2 a.m. Updated at 8:27 p.m. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for west central Will County, effective until 9 p.m. Tuesday.