Peru News

The University of Illinois Extension's La Salle County unit has planned pesticide safety education training and testing clinics at 9 a.m. Friday, Dec.

A Business Breakfast Seminar, sponsored by the Illinois Valley Area Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Business Breakfast Seminar Committee, will be held at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at Mario's Maples Supper Club in Peru.

Q. The Times recently printed a financial report for LEASE. What is that? A. The La Salle/Putnam County Educational Alliance for Special Education provides the organized administration of all special education programs and services for La Salle and Putnam counties.

In order to make Illinois a more environmentally friendly state, Rep. Debbie Halvorson recently secured funding for projects aimed at increasing Central Illinoisa green energy and green jobs.

YEPSEN Air Force Capt. Erika A. Yepsen has deployed to the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

An Oglesby man apparently fell to his death Wednesday morning at the La Salle Cement Co.

Interesting La Salle County government elections already began to shape up on the first day of filing Monday for the Feb.

Ethan Credi was born 26 weeks prematurely. He weighed only two pounds and 2 ounces.

No one was hurt in a shooting last week in La Salle. The incident landed three boys at the La Salle County Detention Home.

Anthony Muzzarelli, 90, of 1321 Maple Drive, Peru, formerly of DePue, died at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

Thomas Joseph Mack, 44, of Palatine, formerly of Ladd, died at 6:31 pm Monday, Oct, 19, 2009, in Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

Vicious dogs were the hot topic for the Sheffield Village Board. Two separate complaints, one filed with the Bureau County Sheriff's Department, one with Sheffield Village Trustee Mary Ann Cernovich has brought the issue of animal control to the front burner.

The following is provided by the La Salle County Sheriff's Office, listing those processed at the jail, with their age, address, day of processing and pending charge : Hallan M. Brady, 23, 515 DeLeon St., Ottawa, Monday, hold for other agency.

Gateway Services Inc. will hold its annual awards reception beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church, 316 N. Church St., Princeton.

The Manlius Historical Society is continuing to make progress on the restoration of the historical First State Bank of Manlius, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Margaret P. Becker, 86, of Chicago, formerly of Rockford and Ladd, died at 11:55 a.m. Sunday, Oct.

Illinois' export-dependent grain industry will have an opportunity next week to demonstrate its vast production and distribution capabilities to 32 potential foreign customers.

Evanston writer/producer works on 'Power of the Poor' Comments October 8, 2009 SRO: PEOPLE TO WATCH Writer/producer Roger Brown , of Trillium Productions in Evanston, is one of the forces behind "The Power of the Poor," a documentary on how the developing world's underground informal economies can be used to directly benefit the world's poor.

"The father of waters again goes unvexed to the sea." That was Abraham Lincoln's words after the Union Army wrested the Mississippi River from the Confederacy.

STARVED ROCK MODEL A CLUB On Sept. 19, The Starved Rock Model "A" Club toured Historic Route 66 from Joliet to Pontiac.