Bonnie News

SYCAMORE – “Sauropod” – a fancy word for a familiar fellow.

"Every year we allocate $25,000 for the police department," Mayor David Hubbard explained.

Residents of Bonnie will no longer see local police patrolling their streets. Village officials say it wasn't an easy decision, but at Monday night's Bonnie village board meeting, members voted unanimously to eliminate their police force.

Six thousand teenagers died texting and driving last year. Until recently, all parents could do was to talk to their kids about the dangers, but now there's a way to guarantee your child is never texting behind the wheel.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Molly Rodgers of Bethel Grade School was chosen Tuesday afternoon as the overall winner of the 2010 City Wide Cleanup Poster Contest.

Plans are underway to turn Jefferson County citizens into emergency responders. It is through Citizens Emergency Response Training, better known as CERT.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - The Downtown Mt. Vernon Development Corporation is looking for volunteers who love books - and love to sort them.

When Carl and Bonnie Werner noticed land development creeping closer and closer to their home on Basswood Road; keeping their beloved 148-acre farmstead as pristine agriculture land for generations to come became a top priority.

Roselle native and paleontologist Matt Bonnan gives a presentation Sunday at the Medinah Shrine Center in Roselle on a dinosaur species he helped discover.

By RORYE O'CONNOR rorye.oconnor@register-news.com MT. VERNON - A collaborative learning effort took place Thursday night as elected officials from Mt.

The Village of Dix announced Wednesday it is in the process of installing a tornado warning system which should be completed in the next couple of weeks.

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com DIX - Residents will be hearing an unfamiliar sound next month - the testing of the village's first tornado warning system.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Mayor Mary Jane Chesley has organized the first ever joint seminar for all municipal and county legislators in Jefferson County.

The Jefferson County village of Bonnie is suddenly without four leaders. The mayor, a board member, the secretary/treasurer and the village clerk all resigned during Monday's meeting.

A Burlington woman was charged Friday with five counts of cyberstalking after she sent out several e-mails accusing her mother-in-law of fraud.

Biology professor Matt Bonnan helped discover dinosaur bones 195 million years old.

It's being called the largest immunization effort in Jefferson County Schools since the Polio vaccination effort in the 1950's. Monday began the first day of three weeks of vaccinating JCPS students inside schools.

Western Illinois University professor Matthew Bonnan, a 1991 Lake Park High School graduate, shows the thigh bones of the dinosaur Aardonyx.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 5:44 p.m. Read more: Local , State , National A The phrase 'you learn something new everyday' may be true in many cases.

A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said Wednesday.