Tiskilwa News

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Yepsen of 200 State St., Tiskilwa, will celebrate their 60th anniversary with a family dinner, hosted by their children, on Nov.

Janet and Scott Given of Downers Grove are announcing the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Debra, to Chad Wysocki.

Fifth-graders Jaxon Harris , Kyle Kinnamon, Marisa Bacorn and Bret Emmerson stand in front of classroom murals created by them and their classmates at Reagan Middle School in Tiskilwa.

Historian Owen Muelder, director of the Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College, will be the guest speaker at the Bureau County Historical Society's annual dinner Oct.

More people than usual are showing up to get their seasonal flu shots this year, according to Diana Rawlings, administrator of the Bureau/Putnam County Health Department.

Connie K. Chastain, 61, of Princeton passed away on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, at St.

An attorney representing the Bureau County Board has released details of a dispute over a road agreement the county claims a wind farm company has failed to honor.

The body of a missing East Moline woman was found Thursday morning by a groundskeeper at Camp Menno Haven, west of Tiskilwa.

Authorities say an elderly East Moline woman missing since Tuesday evening has been found dead near Princeton.

The Early Beginnings will meet for playgroup at the Princeton Public Library at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

Every home – large or small, young or old – has its unique history, its own special story of those who built it and the families who have lived there.

Eyes in the Bureau Valley School District have been focused to the north for a couple of years now, anticipating new tax dollars flowing into the district from the proposed Walnut Ridge wind farm, a 150-turbine wind farm spread over 15,000 acres in Ohio, Walnut, Manlius, Bureau and Greenville townships.

A Kewanee man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary in Tiskilwa.

The Klingenberg/Ryan family of Wyanet enjoys volunteering their time with the Wyanet Fire Department and the Wyanet Rescue Service to help others.

Tiskilwa Farms Alpacas, LLC celebrated National Alpaca Farm Day on Saturday with an open house.

Pork chop fry TISKILWA - The Tiskilwa Community Church Men's Group will have a pork chop fry from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct.

Francis Morse of Tiskilwa was inducted into the 4-H Hall of Fame at last month's Illinois State Fair.

Laurance C. “Larry” Pierson, 78, of Henry died at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

Liberty Village of Princeton will have an ice cream social from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the activity room to celebrate Grandparents Day.

The Mount Bloom Cemetery on the west edge of Tiskilwa is getting a facelift. The Friends of Mount Bloom, a grassroots organization formed about a year ago, has developed a two-part plan for improvements to the historic cemetery, spokesperson Cecille Gerber said.