Channahon News

LISBON – West Lisbon Church has scheduled its fifth annual "Give Away Day" for 8 a.m. to noon July 12. There will be clothes , shoes, kitchen/household items, linens, baby items, toys, holiday decorations and more.

CHANNAHON – The grand reopening of Circus Spectacular will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Channahon State Park is the official trailhead for the Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

VERNOA – The Verona United Methodist Church will be holding its 33rd annual ice cream social Sunday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The menu will be: BBQ, hot dogs, chips, homemade desserts, drinks and delicious homemade ice cream.

MORRIS – With a wave of the hand and an occasional thumbs-up tiny contestants took the stage just before 6 p.m. after power was restored to the pavilion where the 2014 Miss Grundy County Pageant took place on Wednesday night.

A teenage boy walking along the streets of Channahon was waylaid and robbed of his Air Jordan sneakers by three thugs who jumped out of a minivan.

The Des Plaines River Valley contains major navigable rivers which are important Illinois waterways.

He used an eight-iron on the 13th hole. Witnesses were Brian Grims, Ryan Skirvins and John Braun.

The Channahon woman jailed for allegedly clubbing her grandmother to the ground and chasing her grandfather around his yard also menaced the elderly couple with a pair of scissors and was disarmed at gunpoint by the police, according to a petition for a protective order.

June 24 Andrea L. McEwan, 19, of Joliet was cited for possession of cannabis, police said.

MORRIS – Illinois legislators have spoken, and Grundy County is closer to knowing exactly how much supplemental sales tax revenue it could lose from Channahon and Morris.

Total revenues are expected to be $20.54 million, which would be a 3.3 percent increase over revenues received last year, according to the tentative budget the board approved Monday.

Kelly Hutten glues a yellow "m" to a collection box with Alfredo Martinez, Salvatore Cesario, and Connor McKay looking on, that the Teen Leadership Camp at Channahon Park District will use to collect items for Ronald McDonald House charities.

CHANNAHON - " Families of Faith Christian Academy has opened the much anticipated Families of Faith Christian Day Care.

A Channahon woman lashed out at her elderly grandparents, police said, belting her grandmother in the head and chasing her grandfather around their yard before the cops showed up.

The district will pay the firm $13,500 to help them find a full-time, permanent superintendent and $2,000 for an interim administrator.

Thomas Durkin, current Crete village administrator, was named Channahon's village administrator, replacing Joe Pena, who retired in May. Durkin's salary is $112,000 plus $300 a month in vehicle allowance.

The son of retired Will County Chief Judge Rodney Lechwar was out of prison a mere nine days when he suffered an apparent heroin overdose in his father's Channahon home.

A 50-year-old Joliet man was arrested in Channahon after attacking a police officer.

An immediate order for air and drone cover for Iraqi troops fighting the insurgents would be the right decision for President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, says U. S. Rep. Rodney Davis .