Shabbona News

Frances Jim and Jennifer Frances of Shabbona announce the birth of a daughter, Ava Marie Frances, born Dec.

Shabbona Middle School Music Boosters will hold its first annual Trivia Night at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

DeKalb County Sheriff's deputies said they found more than a man urinating after they noticed a car parked near Route 23 in southern DeKalb County Friday morning.

Karen Schmitt, of Kishwaukee College, explains the results of a personality test that was given to a group of local area high school students on Thursday at the Flewellin Memorial Library in Shabbona.

Shabbona Middle School Music Boosters will hold its first Trivia Night at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

Two Aurora men have been charged in a shooting that occurred in Waterman this past weekend.

I've got a great idea for a new course at Streator Public Schools: Streator history! Some might scoff at this.

Next school year, Morris Elementary School District 54 will bring much of its special education in house.

DeKalb firefighters exit a home at 507 S. Second St., in Malta, following a blaze which was stopped with help from Malta and Shabbona firefighters on Wednesday.

MALTA – Firefighters from five departments have gotten a house fire in Malta under control, authorities said.

Editor's note: Information in Police Briefs is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office and city police departments.

SYCAMORE – A group of local residents has filed an amended complaint with the state's 16th Judicial Circuit, again asking a judge to find that the DeKalb County Board wrongfully granted a special-use permit to the energy company that has erected 100-plus wind turbines in the county.

Bond was set at $500 cash in circuit court last week for a Minooka man charged with possession of 30 to 500 grams of marijuana and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

Master Gardeners are shown at a pruning workshop at DeKalb's historic Gurler House.

Some of the wind turbines spin on Wednesday. NextEra Energy Resources plans to “officially commission” its 145-tower wind farm by the end of this week, although the turbines in the southern part of the county have been harnessing wind and turning it into electricity for a few weeks.

A wind turbine stands in the background as anti-wind farm protesters stand on the corner of County Line Road and Lee Road in Lee.

After dealing with an ice storm that left power outages, fallen tree branches and cars in ditches in its wake, DeKalb County dug out Sunday from a winter storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow on the county.

Sixth-grader Cindy Sierra practices how to use chopsticks during Shabbona Middle School's first culture lunch Friday Dec.

Rodney Kyler has dropped out of the Republican primary race for DeKalb County Board District 1 against Charles Foster.

The substation on Haumesser Road in southwestern DeKalb County. It can be hard to see electrons zooming through a copper wire.