Prophetstown News

In an economy still trying to recover, there are hopeful signs all around the Sauk Valley.

MORRISON, Ill. - Doris L. Musch, 85, of Pleasant View Nursing Home, Morrison, died Saturday, November 28, 2009, at Pleasant View Nursing Home, Morrison, IL.

The census is coming and, with it, temporary jobs. The government is ready to shell out $13 an hour for qualified counters, who will hand-deliver census questionnaires to homeless people and to residents who list a rural route or post office box as their address.

PROPHETSTOWN – The Tuscany Christmas Charity Auction and Wine Tasting begins at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Prophetstown Jailhouse banquet hall, 75 Grove St.

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@svnmail From left: Kelsey Becker, 12, Sarah Ostrander, 11, Dallas Griffith, 13, and Jasmyn Sevilla, 13, pass all the Thanksgiving dinner fixings Wednesday evening as Crave youth ministries serves a free dinner.

Singing for
 their supper - MORRISON – The city's church choirs are presenting “We Sing for Their Supper,” a concert to benefit Morrison Food Pantry and the Christmas Helping Hands program, at 6 p.m. Sunday at Ebenezer Reformed Church of Morrison.

People look over a new mural created in honor of CGH Medical Center's 100th anniversary.

Quartermaster Second Class Ronald Johnson sits in the gunner's seat of a 40 mm cannon aboard a Navy LST at a Clinton, Iowa, reunion 4 years ago.

Deloris Whitlock stands with Terry and George Blackert of Prophetstown on Wednesday evening outside the old Sterling theater.

Caped-crusaders, princesses, witches and even a hippy paraded down Prophetstown's Main Street last week.

Whiteside County Health Department Tuesday received 2,000 more doses of H1N1 nasal vaccine and will be able to continue with school clinics this week, Health Administrator Beth Fiorini said.

The Newman Comets blew past the Erie-Prophetstown Panthers 48-0 on Friday in Prophetstown.

Mary Snow, 23, drives a forklift at the Wal-Mart Distribution Center near Sterling and studies psychology at Sauk Valley Community College.

The Prophetstown School Board is accepting it's Athletic Director's resignation.

A young adult suffers a life-altering brain or spinal cord injury. Perhaps it was caused by a motor vehicle or motorcycle crash, or a bicycle or pedestrian accident.

High school science teacher David Alborn, under investigation for alleged inappropriate communications with an underage girl, has submitted his resignation.

The Princeton-Kewanee rivalry, which Friday, came to a close, or at least put on hold, has been thought of locally as the longest continuously rivalry in the state.

Controversy continues surrounding a Prophetstown High School Athletic Director and teacher who's under investigation.

PROPHETSTOWN – A science teacher and the athletic director at Prophetstown High School is being investigated in connection with an “inappropriate” e-mail received by a former student, the the Whiteside County Sheriff's Department said Friday.

STERLING – More than 200 students from area high schools are spending today preparing to sing their hearts out tonight.