Monee News

DIXON – Add 10 years and several hundred more people and what do you get? Apparently, the same result as the original in the case of the Reagan Run 5K.

On their fifth wedding anniversary, Roger and Carey Basick, of Monee, took a trip to Ireland that would change their destiny.

There's a stretch of 80th Avenue just off Manhattan-Monee Road that begins with gravel and becomes tar and chip.

School is out for summer, but Plainfield School District officials wasted no time filling two high-profile jobs at local schools next year.

Amendments to a Will County ordinance make it easier for subdivision developers to use conservation design, which preserves an area's natural resources.

Christian Hall Fourth grade president of the Coretta Scott King Magnate School Junior Council, addressed an audience of over 500 people during the school's celebration of achieving accredited and authorized IBO Primary Years Programme status.

Climbing trees now denotes a need for climbing ropes, stabilizers and helmets - at least when trying to climb Goliath, a 300-year-old oak tree.

Oh, why don't you just go climb a tree. Amid the fields and forested areas of rural Monee lives a man who wants to help you do just that.

As you look back on these last four years, consider how you might be spending the next three to five.

Three high school classmates have been arrested and charged in an alleged burglary ring.

During its May 18 meeting, the Crete-Monee Board of Education approved a proposal from the Village of Crete permitting the village to construct a water tower on the far west edge of the new high school campus.

Monee father and son Ron and Andrew Lindstrom won the eighth annual Exelon Nuclear's ``Fishing for a Cure'' at Braidwood Lake Saturday.

Deborah S. Bachert, the new village clerk, and Larry Bellar, Crete's new trustee, were sworn in at the May 11 village board meeting.

A spring hike at Monee Reservoir, a free nature hike provided by the Forest Preserve District of Will County, will be at 5 p.m. May 21.

Hundreds of seniors picked up freebies and information from two gymnasiums worth of vendors and government agencies Wednesday morning.

Crete-Monee School Superintendent John Rodgers announced the hiring of Brian Riegler as the new principal for Crete-Monee High School during the April 20 meeting ot the board of education.

Pastors, church leaders and organizations are encouraged to attend a free seminar on ''A Faith Response to Family Violence'' scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, April 29, at Eastern Will County Senior Services, 25864 S. Chestnut Street in Monee.

* Alberto R. Perez , 34, of 449 Bruce Road in Lockport, was arrested by Bolingbrook police and booked into the county jail Tuesday on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.

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FIVE local payphones are set to ring for the last time as BT removes unprofitable call boxes.