Putnam News

Jordan Diehl, 2009 Miss Bureau County Fair; Bill Diller, Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs and Bureau County Board member, Frank Mautino, state representative for District 76; and Samantha Dunphy, 2009 Miss Marshall-Putnam Fair, were present at the annual Northern Zone meeting Nov.

The new 10,000-square-foot Lily Pads Resale Boutique on Progress Boulevard in Peru launched its grand opening celebration recently with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The Princeton-Illinois Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the Bureau County Republican Community Room, 800 Ace Road.

The Bureau County Farm Bureau, along with Marshall-Putnam and Stark County Farm Bureaus will be hosting a College Open House Day for Agriculture from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov.

Learn how residents of LaSalle County helped to hide slaves escaping from the Southern plantations before the Civil War.

A local community organization will receive a $125,000 national grant to fight drug abuse among area youth.

A case of H1N1 flu, commonly called swine flu, has been confirmed in Putnam County.

Conrad Camellino estimated he has participated in about a dozen spelling bees since third grade, and quirky behavior is commonplace.

The Bureau County Sheriff's Department responded to a report of a train hitting a car east of Tiskilwa at 6:38 p.m. June 4. According to the sheriff's department, Jeremy W. Newbury, 22, of Putnam was crossing the railroad tracks near 2050 East Street and 1030 North Avenue when his vehicle was struck by a train on the passenger side door.

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County Highway 17, commonly known as Yankee Lane, will be closed Thursday from County Highway 31, which is the Putnam-Bradford Blacktop, to County Line 00N.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service published county-level data on cash rental rates for agricultural land May 1, and local non-irrigated cropland is going for some of the higher rates in the state.

Peoria County and much of central Illinois is under a tornado watch until 11 p.m. Wednesday.

The number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu, commonly called swine flu, continues to rise in Illinois and across the United States.

An exasperated judge agreed Thursday to postpone until October a high-profile trial that had been set to start Monday after the Putnam County prosecutor filed six new charges because of what he called "defects" in an earlier indictment.

The Putnam County Historical Society will present the Putnam Cemetery Walk from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.