Elmwood News

The Ameren Illinois Utilities have restored service to about 23,600 customers in the wake of a storm that left about 43,500 customers in the dark early this morning.

Ameren Illinois Utilities report as many as 20a 'thousand customers are without power in the wake of the storm.

It's noon on Friday in Elmwood and there's still no power. "When you want to get cooled off you don't have the air conditioner," said Tim Harms, Elmwood's Emergency Services Disaster Agency coordinator.

Red Cross volunteers are in Elmwood offering coffee, drinks, snacks and lunch to emergency officials and others cleaning up the debris.

More than 20 emergency response agencies from all over the county descended on the Shoppes at Grand Prairie for the expo.

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Authorities say they recovered the body of a Peoria County woman from the Spoon River a day after witnesses saw flood waters wash away her car as she tried to cross Illinois Route 29.

Due to Friday's flooding, several area roads are temporarily closed: Brimfield South, between Shissler and Pulsifer; Dogtown Lane, between Tiber Creek and Meehan Road in Elmwood; Graham Chapel Road, between Wiley and Route 78; Radnor Road between Alta Lane and Ridgeview; State Street, between Old Galena Road and Route 6; Wasson Road between Downs ...

Farmers State Bank will offer a presentation on identity theft next week. Larry Nelson of KCB Information Services in Pekin will give the presentation "Identity Theft: What Everyone Needs to Know" at 11 a.m. Monday at the annex building next to the bank, 108 E. Main St., Elmwood.

This is a time of year when champions are trying to hold off challengers on basketball courts everywhere.

Eight or nine years ago, Erin Meyer's job was eliminated. A dietician who specialized in diabetes education, she had been struggling to balance her duties to her husband, Mark, their two daughters and work.

The acute long-term care hospital recently under fire for their patient practices issued a second statement in response Tuesday.

William White won't be visiting his ailing wife in the hospital this Christmas; he says the medical care center transported her to Illinois without the family's permission on Christmas Eve.