Somonauk News

My heartfelt “thank you” to all in Somonauk Meadows, Woodgate and the outlying areas for your generous donations for the Sycamore Food Pantry on Oct.

Topic: The need for high schools hosting student-taught preschools. What happened? Streator soon will join two other local high schools in hosting a student-taught preschool.

Most local high schools fell short of standardized test scores under the state's interpretation of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation - some fell far short.

The LaMoille/Ohio Lady Lion co-op's 2009 campaign came to a close Thursday night in Somonauk as they fell 25-23, 25-21 to Indian Creek in 1A volleyball regional action.

Somonauk High School physical education teachers Curt Alsvig and Sara Gunderson completed two fitness certification courses through Aerobics and Fitness Association of America.

Although state test scores edged up slightly this year, local high schools were a little more touch-and-go. The Illinois State Board of Education made the yearly report cards public today, showing which schools were faltering and which were making progress on the students' test scores.

Anthony Bernico, 17, of Sandwich High School, washes dishes within the kitchen at the Best Western Timber Creek Inn & Suites in Sandwich on Tuesday October 20, 2009.

As they sat on her porch, Denise Poquette Benson recalls, her boyfriend was reading a newspaper article about the 1983 murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville.

Originally published June 18, 1985. The body of a young girl, whom the FBI tentatively has identified as that of 7-year-old Melissa Ackerman of Somonauk, was found Monday night in a rural area near Route 34, about five miles east of Mendota.

The last time Opal Horton saw Melissa Ackerman, her best friend was pounding frantically on a window of the rusty blue car from which Horton herself had just escaped.

Police from several jurisdictions worked with civilian volunteers this morning to conduct a ground and air search in the Somonauk area for a kidnapped, 7-year-old Somonauk girl.

In the prosecution's eyes, Brian Dugan has had enough chances. In fact, those chances probably should have run out in the late 1970s before he ever got the chance to kill.

As a child, we are always told to stand up for what we believe in. We learn about some of the great leaders of the past like Martin Luther King and how hard he fought for something that he found right.

After calmly recounting how he kidnapped, raped and then drowned 7-year-old Melissa Ackerman, Brian Dugan told a psychotherapist that he 'didn't feel sad' about the slaying, but wondered why he had committed the brutal crime.

The Somonauk Education Foundation's sixth annual dinner and auction is a casual affair set for 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Fire caused serious damage to a house adjacent to St. Paul's Catholic Church in Sandwich Tuesday night.

SOMONAUK – Charles Duerkes hesitated for just a second Wednesday as he sized up the small puddle at the curb of Route 34 and South Green Street.

Farmers in La Salle and DeKalb counties will join with members from 19 area churches in nine denominations, all participants in two Food Resource Bank growing projects, to celebrate the harvest on a farm near Somonauk Saturday, Oct.

The Village Board is considering moving up its regular monthly meeting times. The board normally meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month.

Opening statements begin Tuesday in the murder case that has been building for 26 years against Brian Dugan.