Bureau County News

Eighty-nine year old Clifford Heaton spends Friday morning behind the wheel of the combine in family fields north of Princeton.

Last spring, students in third, fifth, sixth and eighth grades took the Illinois Standards Achievement Test in reading and mathematics, while students in fourth and seventh grades were tested in reading, mathematics and science.

Four Spring Valley residents were arrested Oct. 29 by agents with the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team on drug-selling charges.

On Oct. 27 the Bureau Valley High School National Honor Society trick or treated for canned goods, paper products and toiletries for the Western Bureau County Food Pantry.

Forty-four people have died from suicide in Bureau County during the last 10 years.

Katelyn McFadden of Valley Bar and Grill in Spring Valley displays a copy of “A Taste of the Region.” The book, available at the restaurant and other locations in Spring Valley and Princeton, includes information and recipes from businesses along the Illinois River Road.

The Bureau County Health Department has scheduled additional clinics to combat the spread of H1N1 flu among high risk groups in Bureau County.

The Bureau Valley School Board is continuing its investigation into an employee matter which surfaced in the district several weeks ago.

We are not the enemy, though I sometimes think reporters are viewed that way. I think sometimes there are people representing locals boards and committees and organizations who see newspaper reporters as the enemy, the ones seeking out or creating the negative news.

Officers with the Illinois State Police, District 17 / Zone 3, recently conducted Alcohol Countermeasure Enforcement surveys at 11 establishments in Neponset, Sheffield, Wyanet, Buda and Princeton.

The one sure sign I have to rely on telling me harvest season is here is when my daughters begin asking if they can go to the pumpkin store.

Vicious dogs were the hot topic for the Sheffield Village Board. Two separate complaints, one filed with the Bureau County Sheriff's Department, one with Sheffield Village Trustee Mary Ann Cernovich has brought the issue of animal control to the front burner.

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 Bureau County Farm Bureau, along with Marshall-Putnam and Stark County Farm Bureaus will be hosting a College Open House Day for Agriculture from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov.

The Bureau County Republican is working with first-year teacher Rachel Gross of Princeton who is teaching third grade at John F. Kennedy School In Spring Valley and retiring teacher Roxana Noble of Princeton who teaches English and literature to seventh-grade students at Logan Junior High School in Princeton.

An elderly East Moline woman missing since Tuesday, was found dead Thursday in a rural area near Princeton, Illinois.

The filing date is approaching for candidates wanting their names placed on the Feb.

Though the weather in Bureau County hasn't cooperated much lately, area residents will need to get their yard waste burning done in the next three weeks.

A Bureau County coroner's jury convened Friday and returned rulings on three Bureau County deaths.

Area farmers have been keeping their fingers crossed, but it looks like their luck is about to run out.