Sterling News

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded $10,000 to the Whiteside County Regional Office Of Education in Sterling, to support literacy programs.

Pictured with some of the Community Baby Shower donations at New Life Lutheran Church in Sterling are Larry Cooper, Thrivent financial associate; Faith Sandrock, event coordinator at the church; and the Rev.

PROPHETSTOWN – Diana F. Posey, 54, of Prophetstown, died Thursday, May 23, 2013, at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.

The Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 school board on Thursday approved the hiring of Tod Altenburg as its new chief financial officer, according to a District 200 news release.

And on Sunday, Amboy, Bureau Valley, Fulton, Morrison, Oregon, Polo, Prophetstown, Rock Falls and Sterling will give big send-offs to their graduates.

STERLING – Jobless rates were down in the Sauk Valley area in April, according to data released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

STERLING – Members of a multistate check-forging and burglary ring who investigators say are responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bank fraud also broke into several Sterling businesses and stole payroll and other checks, Mendota police said Thursday in a news release.

The Whiteside County Board on Tuesday approved, 21-3, a request to rezone the school building from residential to industrial.

STERLING – Just as the sun was coming up April 4, Jordan Young spotted a column of smoke as he drove down East LeFevre Road near Platt Park.

STERLING – You can now run and play basketball at Westwood Sports Center, which was damaged in a fire last week.

STERLING – A 15-year-old Chadwick boy remained in serious condition at a Rockford hospital Monday after being struck by a train on the railroad bridge over Elkhorn Creek around 7 p.m. Friday.

STERLING – Lawyers are interviewing witnesses and taking depositions in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after two Sterling detasselers were electrocuted in summer 2011, they told a Winnebago County judge at a status hearing last week.

Newly seated Mayor Everett Pannier, after a brief closed session at the end of a relatively short City Council meeting, announced Monday that he would not renew the city administrator's contract.

Illinois State University Athletic Director Gary Friedman unexpectedly resigned Monday with three years left on his contract, saying the job wasn't a good fit for him.

"Old-fashioned things," the Glen Ellyn woman says, like her dad organizing family camping trips, playing songs on the organ and singing in his distinct Irish tenor.

And starting with the graduating class of 2015, students who will be juniors next year, the school will not assign a class ranking, either.

Firefighters use Dixon and Sterling fire department's ladder trucks to access windows at Washington Elementary School in Dixon during joint training exercises Saturday.

MILLEDGEVILLE – A 15-year-old boy was in serious condition at a Rockford hospital Sunday after he was struck by a train on the railroad bridge over Elkhorn Creek on Friday night.

But his role goes beyond the legal realm. He performs bookkeeping tasks, drafts the budget, and prepares the monthly minutes for airport board meetings.

DIXON – Cobblestone 51 likely will be open by Wednesday at 117 N. Galena Ave., the former Little Angelo's site, owner Josh Burkhalter said.