Neponset News

There were 4,042 fewer students in Illinois last year than the year before, and 109 of those students disappeared from Bureau County.

Neponset Grade School lists its honor roll students for the first quarter. 2009-10 First quarter * denotes straight A's High honor roll Fourth grade: Sam Gleichman.

Neponset Junior High School lists its honor roll students for the first quarter.

Last spring, students in third, fifth, sixth and eighth grades took the Illinois Standards Achievement Test in reading and mathematics, while students in fourth and seventh grades were tested in reading, mathematics and science.

Four Bureau County residents were recognized in October when the Black Hawk East College Foundation honored both those who gave and those who received at its annual scholarship banquet at the Kewanee Dunes.

Officers with the Illinois State Police, District 17 / Zone 3, recently conducted Alcohol Countermeasure Enforcement surveys at 11 establishments in Neponset, Sheffield, Wyanet, Buda and Princeton.

The First Congregational Church of Neponset will host its annual fundraiser, “Sunday Night Supper,” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Nov.

Vaccinations for the seasonal flu will be available to Bureau County residents throughout the next three weeks.

Oct. 4-10 is National 4-H Week and Bureau County is celebrating with a Celebrate 4-H Party.

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Golby of rural Neponset recently celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary.

Curt Johnson, an antique firearms expert and historian, will give a talk on 19th century Illinois and Bureau County gun makers at 2 p.m. Sept.

John “Jack” Joseph Barry, 78, of Sheffield died at 8:50 a.m. Thursday, Sept.

The Neponset Village Board passed its 2009-10 village budget during a special board meeting held Thursday.

Bureau County Sheriff's deputies Cliff Morse and Mike Ori investigate a Tuesday afternoon train/truck accident one mile west of Route 40 near Sheffield.

Where oh where have the water bill readings gone? Village Trustee Wayne Gerrond told the village board the readings for the June/July water bills “disappeared.” Trustee Tom Weeks questioned how the readings could get lost? Marcus Chapman, village employee, told the board he dropped off the readings as usual in the old city clerk drop ...

A group of western Bureau County residents want to make sure their communities and neighbors have enough to eat in these trying economic times.

NEPONSET/DEPUE-Two Bureau County school districts have received federal money to upgrade their cafeteria programs.

Neponset High School may be no more, but the ball park and its concession stand are getting a facelift, thanks to a small but dedicated group who call themselves Neponset Pride.

River City Construction of Peoria was awarded the project of clean up and removal of hazardous waste material from a Neponset home which has been giving the village problems for a couple of years now.

Delinquent water bills once again were the bearer of bad news for the Neponset Village Board.