Morrison News

Morrison city council members met on June 10th, 2013 in the Whiteside County Board room for a regular meeting.

Since September 2002, the staff at Dream Works Mechanical, Inc., has been servicing forklifts and heavy equipment from their Morrison, Illinois location.

MORRISON – If you own an eatery, the Whiteside County Health Department wants to charge 10 percent more to make sure you clean it like you mean it.

MORRISON – City sewer and water rates likely will more than double over the next 11 years to pay for a new $23 million wastewater treatment plant.

The more than 150 students will be among hundreds of others in the western Sauk Valley who are in schools that recently have gone digital.

DIXON – A comic book and board games store opened June 7 at 118 N. Peoria Ave., at the former Dollar Green location across the street from Dixon High School.

MORRISON – The attorney for twice-convicted murderer Nicholas T. Sheley on Thursday asked a judge to ban any mention of the other killings at Sheley's next murder trial in October.

MORRISON – A proposed $4 million, 32,000-square-foot assisted living center, expected to bring about 20 new jobs, has gotten a big assist from the city: Morrison Illinois Assisted Living LLC won its request to have its Scenic Road site rezoned from agricultural use to special use.

Allen and Pat Polhill of Milledgeville are celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniversay with an open ouse on June 29th from 4-8 p.m. at The Other Bar Banquet Hall, 436 N Main St, Milledgeville.

HARMON – Donald H. Gleim, 90, formerly of Harmon, died Sunday, June 9, 2013, at Serenity Hospice & Home in Oregon.

MORRISON – Muriel “Pat” Wagenecht, 86, of Morrison, died Saturday, June 8, 2013, in Morrison, surrounded by her family.

William E. Schisler, 84, of Princeton, formerly of Manlius, passed away at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, June 6, 2013, at Morrison Community Hospital in Morrison.

MORRISON – Extreme Image Salon is not moving by itself. When the beauty salon moves June 15 from rural Morrison to downtown, Annabella's, a nail salon, is joining them in the new location at 207 W. Main St. Dixon resident Josie Whaley raised a good point at an April meeting of the Dixon City Council.

Anita was born May 23, 1948, in Morrison, to Dwight and Lois Oetzel. She attended Prophetstown schools and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

When the beauty salon moves June 15 from rural Morrison to downtown, Annabella's, a nail salon, is joining them in the new location at 207 W. Main St. Annabella's has been in Morrison for 3 years and was in Fulton for 6 years before that, owner Anna Ryder tells me.

Local Red Cross Volunteers are helping two Morrison, Illinois residents after their home caught fire Tuesday evening.

MORRISON – One person in Whiteside County has qualified for almost $10,000 in federal disaster aid since the county was added Friday to the list of those eligible for help recovering from April's record flooding.

MORRISON – A Chicago man who stole items from Dollar General employees was sentenced Wednesday in Whiteside County Court to 9 years in prison for burglary.

A confirmed tornado has been spotted by Whiteside County Sheriffs near Prophetstown and moving northeast at 50mph.

Raymond was arrested for Speeding 72/55 MPH and Operating an Uninsured Motor Vehicle.