Morton News

Paul Bakus in a ruined pumpkin patch. Photo: Wonk Room Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture.

The holidays may not be so sweet this year. Nestle - which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. - says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage of its Libby's pumpkin pie products through the holidays.

A Wyoming man has died after an industrial accident on Friday. The Peoria County Coroner says 48-year old Carl Ziemer died Friday evening at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center after an accident at G&D Transportation in Morton.

Fans of pumpkin pie may be in for a big disappointment at this year's Thanksgiving dinner.

Black Friday may have to wait for the real retail scramble - there is a pumpkin pie shortage! Blame it on the rain.

Close November 19, 2009, 2:42 PM ET By Kelly Evans It's every baker's worst holiday fear: you head to the grocery store for ingredients to whip up your famous pumpkin pie - but there is no pumpkin left on the shelves.

In a statement to customers this week, Nestle said heavy rains made it nearly impossible to pick its pumpkins during this year's harvest.

If you don't act fast, you could be eating apple pie instead of pumpkin for Thanksgiving dinner.

That homemade Thanks-giving meal and post-holiday favorite, the pumpkin pie, might be in short supply this year.

When word began to leak in grocery stores of the canned pumpkin shortage plaguing this holiday season, baking enthusiasts hoped the chatter was a joke.

The city of Evanston invites residents to a community budget workshop at 7 p.m. Nov.

The city of Evanston will kick off its 2010-11 budget process with an overview/educational workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov.

By McClatchy-Tribune and Reporter StaffFor the second year in a row, fans of pumpkin pie may look to their grocery store shelves and see only emptiness where there should be cans of pumpkin pie mix.There's a shortage.Blame bad weather in the single village that's home to the single company controlling 80 to 90 percent of the nation's pumpkin pie ...

For the second year in a row, fans of open-and-pour pie mixes may look to their grocery store shelves and see only emptiness where there should be cans of pumpkin pie mix.

After Wednesday's press conference announcing the DC government's award of the enormous Park Morton contract to Landex Corp.

Families with more than 10 children are becoming the norm among a group of traditionalist US Christians.

It's fall and time for pumpkins! Nothing says autumn like the sight of a pumpkin or the smell of pumpkin pie.

The Great Pumpkin Plague affecting some parts of the country hasn't been a problem for pumpkin patches that are a Halloween tradition in this area, growers say.

Morton School District #709 is offering free developmental screenings Thursday. The check-up will screen school readiness and communication skills, motor development, and attention, hearing, and vision.

Dozens of local business owners learned ways to "get green, go green and save green" Tuesday morning at a special breakfast event hosted by the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth Edison, commonly known as ComEd, and Citizens for a Greener Evanston.