Sterling News

Blayke Sharp, 11, Gracie Young, 11, and Ethan Young, 9, students at Merrill Elementary School in Rock Falls, participate in Jump Rope for Heart Sunday afternoon at Northland Mall in Sterling.

The group wants to create a trail along the 300-mile route, and a separate Rock River Route on roads within the river corridor to help people access “all to the natural resources, recreational opportunities, scenic beauty and historic and cultural assets of the Rock River Valley,” it says on its website.

At 8:55 p.m., a semitrailer driven by Todd E. Blythe, 34, of Sterling Ill., crashed while heading eastbound on I-80. According to the crash report, the vehicle drove onto the right shoulder and hit the guard cable before veering left and tipping on its side near the 229 mile marker.

The convenience store has been delivering pizza, subs, wraps, breadsticks and 2-liter bottles of soda since Feb.

Sue and Bill Wolff of Sterling chat with 17th Congressional District candidate Greg Aguilar on Friday evening at the Latin American Social Club in Sterling.

When the plates were redesigned in 2001, they also began to carry an image of Abraham Lincoln based on a familiar photograph of the 16th president.

STERLING – Artistic area schoolchildren and their teachers – public, private and home-schooled – are invited to submit their works for the upcoming Student-Teacher Art Exhibit at the Woodlawn Arts Academy.

Sterling police have identified all threes suspects in the burglary that took place at Broadway Liquors early Wednesday morning.

STERLING – A candidate hoping to represent the Sterling-Rock Falls area in the Illinois Senate will be back in town Friday to meet with voters.

Since the mid-1990s, when its first public art project was commissioned in downtown Sterling, the Society is responsible for the creation of 18 murals.

Aficionados of good news have had a nice selection lately. Positive stories, as reported by the Sauk Valley Media news staff, kept coming and coming.

DIXON – The City Council passed an ordinance Monday evening that will allow police to impound cars involved in certain crimes.

Giving Power to Adolescents seeks to provide a safe and positive environment for area youth at its new site in the former Abiding Word Church building at 312 E. Fourth St.

Former Whiteside County Engineer Steve Haring pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft and resigned his position Dec.

The "Secret Six" mural is on the wall of The Precinct in downtown Sterling. It's been many years since a new mural was painted in Sterling, and the Sterling Mural Society and Sterling Main Street are working together to try to promote and restore existing murals, as well as secure a site for a new mural.

STERLING – Four headstones were damaged Wednesday after a Sterling woman lost control of her car and crashed through Riverside Cemetery.

Family nurse practitioner Virginia Heal, the new director of the CGH Ready Care Clinic, holds a model of a knee joint in one of the clinic's new examination rooms.

Customers will soon be able to get a $3 car wash any time of the day or night at Romeoville businesses.

Sterling police have identified all threes suspects in the burglary that took place at Broadway Liquors early Wednesday morning.

TOP: Brian Grummert of Grummert's Hardware was blowing snow off his sidewalk a year ago today, when the area was hit by a blizzard and frigid temperatures.