Princeton News

Central Bank staff members Jen Matthews , Rachel Denton and Rick Clary still have tickets available for this week's third annual Trivia Night fundraiser for the Princeton Public Schools Foundation, to be held Saturday at the Bureau County Metro Center in Princeton.

The Ohio Valley Gold and Silver Refinery roadshow, a Springfield-based company, will make a stop in Princeton Feb.

The Illinois Theatre Conservatory , the education committee of the Princeton Theatre Group , is announcing a new roster of continuing education courses for the spring, 2012 term.

A Bureau County grand jury returned the following indictments when it met Friday, Feb.

A Princeton man has been sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty in Bureau County Court to the Class 4 felony of unlawful possession of a controlled substance, heroin.

Though some Bureau County residents may wait until today, Tuesday, to buy their Valentine's Day gifts for loved ones, area businesses have been thinking Valentine's Day for weeks.

According to Wray, area residents may take items, at no charge, to the Illinois Valley Waste site at 1858 Peggy Lane and put the items in the marked bins located by the shop.

The Zearing Child Enrichment Center in Princeton will host a Scholastic Book Fair next week.

The Princeton City Council will market the city's logistics center/commercial park through a Chicago-based realtor, Lee & Associates of Illinois, with a recommended starting price of $35,000 per acre.

Regional Office of Education officials recently announced the addition of four new positions as a result of the recent federal 21st Century Community Learning Center grant awarded to the Bureau Henry Stark Regional Office of Education.

The Hall Lady Red Devils upset the top-seeded St. Bede Lady Bruins 52-48 for the Princeton 2A regional championship Thursday at Prouty Gym.

The 71st annual Lincoln Day Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Wise Guys Bar & Grill in Princeton.

Meals on Wheels will provide a free Valentines day dinner for all seniors and their families from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the New Hope of the Nazarene Church, 30 N. Sixth St.

25 at St. Louis Church in Princeton and at 4 p.m. Feb. 26 at the First United Methodist Church in Princeton.

Teri O'Connor and the city of Princeton said thanks Monday night to four individuals who helped save O'Connor's life.

A refresher course for food service sanitation managers will be from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 11 in the conference room of the Bureau County Health Department in Princeton.

The First United Methodist Church of Princeton will begin its annual Wednesday evening Lenten activities Feb.

Margaret Buford Speer, 101, formally of Elizabeth and Princeton, Ill., and Eustis, Fla., died Saturday, Feb.

Born Nov. 9, 1914, in Kangley to Frank and Ruth Murphy, she married Elmore “Pete” Ellberg Sept.

James Peacock overcame two surgeries from a band saw accident two days after Christmas and overcame just enough wrestlers on the mat Saturday to advance to sectionals from the Eureka 1A Regional.