Cortland News

Lee Newtson works on a dollhouse he is constructing in his Cortland home. CORTLAND – Lee Newtson is building two identical, fully furnished Victorian-style homes that he says should be "ready to move into" within the year.

Fifth-grader Janeceia Holler covers her eyes as second-grader Javaughn Owens guides her through an obstacle course.

The classic holiday tale of “It's a Wonderful Life” will be presented by the StudioM Dance Company at its winter recital, “Leaping Thru Life – Isn't It Wonderful” at 7 p.m. Friday at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, 550 Lucinda Ave., on the Northern Illinois University campus, DeKalb.

Jon Bowman and Chris May, owners of Proton Tattoo Studio in DeKalb, prepare for the opening of their shop.

DeKalb High School is purchasing new textbooks for the language arts department: Elements of Literature; Essentials of American Literature published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Vojtech Cisar, 4, confers with his father Saturday morning while asking Santa Claus for "everything." Specifically, young Vojtech wants a yellow wrench and a train, said his parents at the annual Breakfast With Santa held at Cortland Elementary School.

Cathy Marlow of DeKalb gets a ride home on the Med-VAC bus. When the Voluntary Action Center built its current facility on Bethany Road in 1986, it pooled many scattered offices from around the county into a central hub.

Al Roloff stands on the Cemetery Road bridge where the western tributary of the South Branch of the Kishwaukee begins, north of Shabbona.

On Tuesday evening, Nov. 9, a fire destroyed a duplex in Sycamore. Sycamore firefighters, along with service personnel from Burlington, Cortland, DeKalb, Elburn, Genoa-Kingston, Hampshire, Malta and Maple Park quickly arrived to safely contain the blaze.

SYCAMORE – An application to expand the county landfill should be filed to the county by Nov.

Piles of dirt left by a developer sit in front of homes in the Greenfield Ridge subdivision in Waterman.

A rural DeKalb County man was arrested Wednesday after federal agents allegedly found thousands of pornographic images of children on his computer.

CORTLAND – The DeKalb School Board narrowed the options from five to two as they continued their discussions of how to best utilize space to educate the 6,000 students who attend district schools.

ST. CHARLES – An Elburn man is charged with sex abuse after he left behind at a party a videotape depicting his fondling of an unconscious young woman, police said Thursday.

Listed below are links to longer stories that were printed in part in the Week In Review section of this week's MidWeek.

Mary Bauling , of DeKalb, discusses the informational handouts with Russ Fletcher, DeKalb schools community relations director during a special meeting at Cortland Elementary School in regards to the possible closing of a Malta school on Wednesday Oct.

Listed below are links to complete stories which were printed in part in the Week In Review section of this week's MidWeek.

As part of the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival Oct. 25, the Sycamore Kiwanis Club held its annual Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest.

DeKALB – There were slightly fewer major crimes in DeKalb County in 2008, compared with 2007.

Last updated on 10/26/2009 at 12:27 a.m. Police were unable to determine the cause of a structure fire that broke out at Old Orchard Place Townhouses, 1001 W. Lincoln Highway, Friday night.