Troy Grove News

THE ISSUE: Rural post offices may not close, hours reduced OUR VIEW: Good news for now, but this isn't over It's been a long nine months for people who depend on their local post office, but good news finally arrived earlier this week.

Vivian M. Eitutis, 89, of Radcliff, Ky., formerly of LaSalle, died at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at North Hardin Health & Rehabilitation Center in Radcliff, Ky., with her son and daughter-in-law at her side.

A 2010 drive through Troy Grove had quite an impact on Walt Willey. On his way back from picking up his wife Marie and daughter Merit at Mendota's Amtrak station to see the Riverfest production of "Arsenic and Old Lace," the actor went by Troy Grove and saw a sign noting it was the birthplace of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok.

Popular former soap opera actor and Ottawa native Walt Willey is preparing a one-man show about the life and death of Troy Grove-born James "Wild Bill" Hickok.

Fairmount Minerals through Technisand Corporation of Troy Grove recently approved a grant application for more than $34,000 to support installation of a wireless network and purchase a mobile lab containing a classroom set of iPads for Milton Pope Elementary School in rural Marseilles.