Biggsville News

Annual Old Stone Church Christmas Service, one-mile west of Elder John Deere Implement off U.S. 61, is 2 p.m. Sunday with guest speaker Tracey Burgus and music by John Jones.

One can always celebrate when the town has a new business. Biggsville has the Lynn Hotel hosting guests and events weekly if not daily, and La Harpe has the Annex which has been used for everything from meetings of the bio-diesel ventures to this week's $8100 an acre sale of farm land! But this week, Stronghurst is celebrating a new business in ...

Line dancers, from left, Emma Alexander, 13, of Biggsville; Anna Stevenson, 13, of Gladstone; and Jamie Bundy, 13, of Oquawka, dance to country music while volunteering at the Henderson County Fun and Flood Relief Day Saturday in West Central Elementary School gym in Biggsville, Ill.

I was so surprised to hear at the Henderson County Republican Women's Annual meeting that our county is being bombarded with break-ins. Jennifer Sparrow from Lomax was very concerned because there had been six break-ins in and around Lomax she said.

LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: While using a fishing pole with line and hook attached to rout some English sparrows from a crevice at their home, Miss Jennie Galbraith had the misfortune to have a finger caught by the fish hook, the barb penetrated so deeply that it was necessary to enlist surgical aid in removing it, which was done by making a deep incision ...

Smoke filled the air on U.S. 34 Monday afternoon east of the Carman intersection after a hay baler caught fire, burning a portion of a wheat field.