Ridge Farm News

When Amy Norman runs into friends from her high-school days, their first question is: Are you still doing art? When people from the past visit her Facebook page, they ask the same question.

WOODSTOCK – The 2030 Land Use Plan is off to the McHenry County Board after almost three years of work.

A man and woman arrested in Georgetown now face charges in connection with three theft incidents in Danville.

GEORGETOWN – School officials learned Tuesday that too many high-school and junior-high-school students in the district underperformed on standardized state tests last spring for their schools to meet the state's adequate yearly progress goals.

Here's a look at recent law enforcement calls: Danville Sunday: Property damage at the Oaklawn Inn, 1824 E. Main St.

Georgetown-Ridge Farm high school's marching band performs songs from video games at the 33rd Annual Panther Marching Band Festival at O'Brien Field Saturday.

Georgetown City council members passed Ordinance No.861 on Monday. The ordinance moves all cases involving fines and penalties of no less than $100 and no more than $750 to the Danville Municipal Building for hearings.

Here's a look at recent law enforcement calls: Danville Saturday: Domestic battery and theft in the 1800 block of East Main Street.

An emotional crowd gathered Friday afternoon at Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School to remember Jessica Roach.

Georgetown- Sunday will mark the 16 year anniversary of Jessica Roach's disappearance and murder.

Area residents voiced displeasure with current government at a Taxed Enough Already event on Saturday.

Sheriff's department investigators are looking into the death of a central Illinois man reported missing during the weekend.

A late growing season and cooler-than-normal summer temperatures mean crops across Vermilion County are definitely well behind schedule.

Here's a look at recent law enforcement calls: Danville Tuesday: A man arrested for battery in the first block of Fera Street.

Police responded to the following calls: Danville: Sunday: -- Driving while suspended at Williams and Nicklas streets.

The summer school program housed at Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School will finish this week as planned - and teachers will be paid for their work.

Cindy Gilliland began her teaching career at Pine Crest Elementary School as a teacher's aide and now ends her tenure with the district by retiring at the same school, but as principal.

Starting this fall, students at Georgetown-Ridge Farm high school have some new incentives to staying in school.

TILTON – Dawna Bouton of Ridge Farm visits her relative in Tilton often but getting to the house has been, in Bouton's words, a jigsaw puzzle the last two years due to the road construction on Fifth Street.

Jeanne Franklin and Bob Magers of Georgetown made the hardest decision of their lives six years ago when they moved their daughter Lyndsey Magers to Highview Terrace in Paris - a 16-bed intermediate care facility for developmentally disabled adults.