Shirland News

Agriculture officials are planning four public meetings to discuss plans for treating parts of northern Illinois for the destructive gypsy moth.

The Shirland School presents their proposed budget cuts to the Township's leaders.

The Shirland School District is facing a budget crunch... and parents were quite vocal at tonight's school board meeting.

Rockford, Ill., native Nick Tassoni, 15, reeled in a 14-pound, 12-ounce walleye on the Pecatonica River between Rockford and Shirland, according to the Rockford Register Star .

It was a car vs. semi on Meridian and 75 earlier this afternoon. The Shirland Fire Department says an eastbound semi was stopped at the intersectino waiting for another westbound semi to pass him.