Harmon News

Weeds, Inc. owner Hollie Oprian has a bachelor's degree in education, and a minor in agri-floriculture. Address: 732 N. Galena Ave., Dixon Phone: 815-288-3041 Web site: www.weedsdesigns.com Main product: No matter what the occasion, flowers always seem to make it brighter.

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - One year ago November 13, Antigua and Barbuda national cultural icon and Harmonites pan player Leroy 'Jughead' Gordon made his transition and passed on.

Hubert J. Burgess, 84, of Princeton, and formerly of Dixon, died Thursday Nov. 5, 2009, at Colonial Hall Care Center in Princeton.

This is addressed to the Lee County Highway Department and its bosses. It has taken me a while to try to get through all the red tape, but here goes.

Charles H. Austin III, 20, of Rock Falls; 2:37 a.m. Thursday at Bacon and Blackstone streets; Ogle County warrant, Whiteside County warrant – driving with a suspended driver's license, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, operating a vehicle with an expired registration; taken to Lee County Jail.

Sometime in the late evening hours of Friday night, burglars broke into two Princeton car dealerships and stole tools valued up to $150,000. Princeton Police Chief Tom Root said his department received a telephone call at 1:30 a.m. Saturday from Harold Ziegler, service manager at Piehl Chevrolet, located at 1402 W. Main St.

I would like to extend my sincere gratitude and appreciation for all who have contributed and assisted Harmon Fire Department.

HARMON – As a new fire chief scrambles to resuscitate this village's comatose ambulance service, a growing contingent of residents is seeking to wrest control of the volunteer fire department from the village board.

A Dixon man has been cited with failing to yield in a crash that killed a Rock Falls motorcyclist Sunday, the Lee County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

HARMON – A Rock Falls man died Sunday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a pickup at the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and Harmon Road, the Lee County Sheriff's Department said Monday.

The Ladd Community Improvement Association is seeking vendors for a farmer's market to be held in the city park each Saturday during late spring, summer and fall.