Oakwood News

The Baseball-size hail was reported in Oakwood, which is in Vermilion County. There was also hail with a diameter of 2" reporteed in Minonk, which is in Vermilion County.

Peyton Crowe, a fifth grader at Prairieview-Ogden South, pulls a rope on a contraption that simulates how difficult it would be to pull someone out of a storage bin filled with grain at the Vermilion County Fairgrounds near Oakwood on Tuesday.

Oakwood Junior High School will host its second annual "McPrincipal's Night" at the Oakwood McDonald's, 499 N. Oakwood St., on Tuesday evening.

The city's recent request for federal dollars to study the environmental effects of removing one low head dam on the Vermilion River and altering another at Ellsworth Park has renewed debate over the man-made structures.

City officials want to apply for a federal grant that could help pay for the removal of a dam on the Vermilion River where a Champaign woman drowned in 2003.