Rantoul News

To the casual observer, it looks like Harry Peckham grows pumpkins and Christmas trees to sell.

Jeff and Howard Brun with the Meriden Threshers deliver a Scotch Pine Christmas tree in a mule-drawn surrey to Gov.

With a little help from some friends, Franklin County has a new 4-H club. About 15 members of the Rantoul Record Breakers 4-H Club elected officers Nov.

Fisher pleaded no contest in September to felony theft charges and was sentenced Monday in Franklin County District Court A Rantoul man was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to repay nearly $30,000 in money he stole from a church.

Franklin County commissioners are taking a road trip. County commissioners decided to travel Monday to the 4300 block of Ellis Road near Rantoul, to see for themselves a small stretch of minimum-maintenance road.

The 15th annual Fall Forestry Field Day will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct.

Even though it deals with fairy tales, it's a very dark show -- consider this a date night show and leave the kids at home.

Pumpkins are a widely accepted symbol of autumn. These pumpkins were on display last fall at Peckhama s Pumpkin Patch, eight miles southeast of Ottawa.

Ottawa Fire Department 09/22/2009 12:38:00 2101 S PRINCETON RD 311 Medical assist, assist EMS c Total Incident Count 1 Daily Booking Activity Report 09/22/2009 10:39 Hutchison, Sean Patrick 4243 HAMILTON TER Rantoul, KS 66079 Age: 28 Arrest Traffic: Accident with damage Battery; Agg Assault; Agg Disorderly Conduct Criminal Damage;Misc 09/22/2009 ...

Admissions a Friday: Frank Dewalt, Ottawa. Dismissals a Friday: Betty Kraus, Ottawa; Debbie Schulz, Rantoul.

Edward and Darla Oulette of Rantoul announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Catherine Oulette, to Jonathan Underwood.

Edward and Darla Oulette of Rantoul announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Catherine Oulette, to Jonathan Underwood.

A drawing from an old Central Heights yearbook depicts the school district's facility from the air not long after construction.

Although the town of Richmond was not laid out until 1870, its early history is connected with the settlement of Berea, a community established as early as 1857.

As she travels from place to place, Nellie Davis meets people. She meets customers looking for perfumes and lotions, others searching for shoes or jewelry.

It's mysterious and scary at the same time. And Tracy Brock and her neighbors just want it to stop.

Rantoul was a part of the earliest settlement in Franklin County. Many settled in the county as they moved from Lawrence and Leavenworth and across the Missouri border into Kansas.

A Rantoul man accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the Rantoul Presbyterian Church when he was church treasurer is set to enter his plea in court next month.

It was a tree that Steve Miner says saved his house from additional damage. Trees were uprooted in Minera s home near Rantoul following Monday nighta s batch of thunderstorms and high winds.

Areas of the county still were without electricity this morning following thunderstorms and high winds Monday night.