Peotone News

While giving money to the poor is a noble endeavor, paying the delinquent bills of some woman you met at a strip club is a bad idea.

Students interested in going into the fire service now have an opportunity to see what it's all about before they commit themselves.

Six banks in Illinois and one in Texas were seized by regulators as the deepening financial crisis pushed the toll of failed U.S. lenders this year to 52, the most since 1992.

Tim Thompson from the Peotone Historical Society presented the village board with suggestions regarding improvements and repairs to the Rathje Mill during the committee of the whole meeting on June 22.

Depp and Dillinger seem to have a lot in common. And beware that the St. Anne scene is short and appears early on after the filma s opening action sequence.

Although a hearing was scheduled Tuesday in a case involving the 2007 murder of the owner of a Peotone Township horse farm, it did not happen.

The Peotone school board plans to repair pavement around the high school and Peotone Elementary School, and it accepted a bid from Denler, Inc.

Cities have an old and deserved reputation for being dirty -- the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley imagined hell was like a city, "populous and smoky." But a new study by the Center for Neighborhood Technology found that while cities produce more greenhouse gases per acre than suburban and rural areas, people who live in cities produce less.

The village and chamber of commerce are planning to team up to hold a business expo this fall.

Tyler Clott made history for Peotone High School on Saturday and all he pretty much had to do to achieve it was just sit back and watch.

Annie Erickson, Sam Baker, Haleigh Knapp, Natalie Erickson, and Alex Stanger have their hair blown in the wind while riding Pharoh's Fury at the Fireman's Carnival in Morris Tuesday.

If you want to get paid to read fortunes in Will County, you'll have to open up shop in a commercial district.

Deborah S. Bachert, the new village clerk, and Larry Bellar, Crete's new trustee, were sworn in at the May 11 village board meeting.

Update: Flashing her wide smile, Michaela Minock, 12, a seventh-grader at Peotone Junior High School, approached the microphone and waited for her word Wednesday afternoon during the third and final round in the preliminaries at Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The four new village board members were sworn into office during the May 11 board meeting.

A basement fire damaged a home Saturday in the 1500 block of Nicholson Street. Joliet firefighters received a call of a structure fire around 4:28 p.m. and put out the fire quickly upon arriving at the scene, fire officials said.

Emerging from Hickory Creek in New Lenox Thursday, members of the MABAS 19 Water Rescue and Recovery Team playfully cradled their rescue: a dingy baseball.

Hundreds of seniors picked up freebies and information from two gymnasiums worth of vendors and government agencies Wednesday morning.

John Rice from the U.S. Census Bureau spoke to the village board during the April 27 committee of the whole meeting about the upcoming 2010 U.S. Census.

At their Monday board meeting, Beecher Village Trustees approved Resolution 2009-09, which is the adoption of the Community Strategic Plan for the Year 2030.