Dixon News

The group wants to create a trail along the 300-mile route, and a separate Rock River Route on roads within the river corridor to help people access “all to the natural resources, recreational opportunities, scenic beauty and historic and cultural assets of the Rock River Valley,” it says on its website.

Lee-Ogle Transportation System dispatchers Beth Nickel , Ashley Bennett and Lisa Oelke currently work in a small room at the Lee County Senior Center that originally had just one dispatcher.

Sterling heavyweight Curtis Lilly gets his hand raised after beating Yorkville's Seth Gonzealez on Friday in the quarterfinals on the Class 2A Sterling Sectional.

When the plates were redesigned in 2001, they also began to carry an image of Abraham Lincoln based on a familiar photograph of the 16th president.

DIXON – “Sinn des Auges” an exhibit by Sauk Valley Media chief photographer Alex Paschal, opens Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. First St.

Students will perform musical pieces they prepared for the Illinois Musical Educators Association conference during the Sauk Valley Youth Talent show Feb.

Rockford artist Tom Linden's oil painting, “Rock Cut Trail,” will be among the works on display in “Regional Survey of Art 8,” The Next Picture Show's annual show and sale that features the works of artists from throughout the area.

MORRISON – The Whiteside County Jail has improved in a number of areas over the last year, according to a state report.

DIXON – I drive a lot for my job, and so because I really, really dislike driving, I listen to a lot of podcasts to make the time go by faster.

Flowers can easily brighten one's day, suggests Hollie Oprian, owner of Weeds in Dixon, as she arranges a vase of flowers on an otherwise cold, gray Tuesday afternoon.

DIXON – Dixon High School students and visitors park there. Some of the school's band equipment is stored in its band shell.

Aficionados of good news have had a nice selection lately. Positive stories, as reported by the Sauk Valley Media news staff, kept coming and coming.

DIXON – Dixon resident Doug Farster is not a baker, so he outsourced the job of making a blueberry pie last week.

DIXON – The City Council passed an ordinance Monday evening that will allow police to impound cars involved in certain crimes.

DIXON – A Dixon man charged with shaking his infant daughter to death in September 2010 will go to trial this spring in a separate case in which he is accused of hitting his young son a month earlier with a wand from a set of mini-blinds. Charles T. George, 34, will be tried May 23 on felony and misdemeanor domestic battery charges.

DRUG CASE: Tina L. Cartuccio, 35, of Amboy; charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver within 1,000 feet of a school; possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver; possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor.

DIXON – With the paperwork wrapped up months later than expected, the “Reagan of Illinois” symphony performance CDs and DVDs now are on sale.

The date has been changed for a seminar in the Sauk Valley that features a noted expert on the Midwest.

Congressman Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, then a candidate, addresses the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St.

DIXON – Thomas D. Shaw, president and chief executive officer of Shaw Media, has been named to the board of directors of Midland States Bancorp Inc.