Seneca News

SENECA – Careless use of smoking materials sparked the blaze in the three-story hotel at 426 N. Main St., Fire Chief Jerry Sears noted.

Cassie L. Snell, 22, 1607 Mulberry St., was arrested Friday in the 900 block of DeLeon Street on a complaint of domestic battery.

We Care of Grundy County, Inc., at 520 W. Illinois Ave., Morris, is in need of used rubber stamps and stamp pad donations.

Provided by La Salle County Farm Bureau DOUG STOCKLEY, Earlville - Crops look good and are responding well to the warm weather and rain showers.

The Seneca Cruise Night Committee will be filling more than 300 goody bags Monday, June 29.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is expected at Saturday's Freedom Run event in Marseilles.

The village of Seneca tried keeping Crotty Park well lit to avoid repeated vandalism, but then people stole the light bulbs.

Bud and Claire Johnson of 105 Vista Dr., Seneca, Illinois 61360, will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Lauren Ann Watson of Morris received her master's degree from Olivet Nazarene University on Saturday, May 9, 2009.

The Illinois River Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, at CP's Ice Cream in Illini State Park south of Marseilles.

More than 50 garage sales are planned this weekend in Seneca. The village-wide event is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Jerry Terando will be the featured speaker at the annual Memorial Day program, to be held at 11 a.m. Monday, May 25, in front of the Grundy County Courthouse.

Memorial Day events: Ottawa The Memorial Day observance will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Washington Square.

Kevin Lee Miller of Sandwich and Cindy Marie Wignes of Seneca exchanged marriage vows on Saturday, May 21, 2009, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church.

A Seneca woman is charged in Grundy County with stealing money from the attorney for whom she worked.

SENECA –The village's only no-kill animal shelter is having a hot dog eating competition.

SENECA – The public will have the chance to comment on vacating West Street for an intended commercial expansion.

The Times welcomes six newcomers to the new Write Team that begins Monday. Joining them will be six alums, including a couple who were on the original team that was introduced in 2001.

Ajudge told a Seneca man he was lucky Thursday in La Salle County Circuit Court.

There was a point in Erwin "Jug" Philpott's life where his table always held fresh flowers.