Princeton News

The Zearing Child Enrichment Center in Princeton will host a Scholastic Book Fair next week.

The Princeton City Council will market the city's logistics center/commercial park through a Chicago-based realtor, Lee & Associates of Illinois, with a recommended starting price of $35,000 per acre.

Regional Office of Education officials recently announced the addition of four new positions as a result of the recent federal 21st Century Community Learning Center grant awarded to the Bureau Henry Stark Regional Office of Education.

The Hall Lady Red Devils upset the top-seeded St. Bede Lady Bruins 52-48 for the Princeton 2A regional championship Thursday at Prouty Gym.

The 71st annual Lincoln Day Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Wise Guys Bar & Grill in Princeton.

Meals on Wheels will provide a free Valentines day dinner for all seniors and their families from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the New Hope of the Nazarene Church, 30 N. Sixth St.

25 at St. Louis Church in Princeton and at 4 p.m. Feb. 26 at the First United Methodist Church in Princeton.

Teri O'Connor and the city of Princeton said thanks Monday night to four individuals who helped save O'Connor's life.

A refresher course for food service sanitation managers will be from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 11 in the conference room of the Bureau County Health Department in Princeton.

The First United Methodist Church of Princeton will begin its annual Wednesday evening Lenten activities Feb.

Margaret Buford Speer, 101, formally of Elizabeth and Princeton, Ill., and Eustis, Fla., died Saturday, Feb.

Born Nov. 9, 1914, in Kangley to Frank and Ruth Murphy, she married Elmore “Pete” Ellberg Sept.

James Peacock overcame two surgeries from a band saw accident two days after Christmas and overcame just enough wrestlers on the mat Saturday to advance to sectionals from the Eureka 1A Regional.

Jan Pistole, cardiac rehab coordinator at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, will talk about women's heart health at the R.A. Sapp Memorial Township Library in Wyanet during the library's 2nd Thursday@the Library program at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

American Legion Woman's Auxiliary Unit 125 of Princeton will conduct the February veterans workshop at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Brandon Behrens teaches his son, Beckham, the fine art of bowling during Saturday's Junior Achievement Bowl-a-thon at Crowne Lanes in Princeton.

Members of the Princeton Jaycees recently attended the Illinois Jaycees year-end assembly Jan.

Princeton Public Library Director Grant Lynch will present Apples to Apples 3.0, the third in his series of information talks on Apple computers and related devices at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the library, 698 E. Peru St.

He was born Sept. 11, 1921, in Lawn Ridge to Jay and Pearl Pritchard. He attended Lawn Ridge Grade School and graduated from Princeville High School.

Award-winning author Robert Thornhill announces the release of the seventh installment in his Lady Justice mystery/comedy series, Lady Justice And The Vigilante.