Tampico News

Caped-crusaders, princesses, witches and even a hippy paraded down Prophetstown's Main Street last week.

Two area communities are inviting kids to “trick-or-trunk.” Thursday in Tampico, participants will decorate their car trunk or their truck bed, then trick-or-treaters will go from vehicle to vehicle, gathering goodies.

Kevin Larkey stands beside one of his corn pickers last week near Walnut. Larkey will participate in the Cornpicker Celebration Friday through Sunday at the Bolz farm.

When the President, any President, represents us before the Olympic committee, I'm in support.

The annual meeting of the Bureau County Fair will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 19 in the Allen Building at the fairgrounds.

PROPHETSTOWN – A week and a half after Prophetstown High School science teacher David Alborn was questioned about alleged inappropriate communication with an underaged girl, the school district remains reluctant to divulge information not already released by local law enforcement.

PROPHETSTOWN – A science teacher and the athletic director at Prophetstown High School is being investigated in connection with an “inappropriate” e-mail received by a former student, the the Whiteside County Sheriff's Department said Friday.

The following was recorded at the Bureau County Courthouse: Divorces Juan A. Rivera of Spring Valley and Carolyn S. McNeil of Spring Valley; married Sept.

TAMPICO – Two fundraisers are being planned for Cory and Tracy Von Horn, who lost their Tampico home and everything in it to a fire Aug.

Some members of the Engerman and Emma Olson family recently met to commemorate the Centennial Farm designation of their family farm.

An off-line well caused off-color water in Tampico for the past few days, but the cause and the cloudiness both have cleared up.

Anthony Nielsen, 18, of Tampico, is a farmhand, a lifeguard at the Prophetstown Park District swimming pool, and a Sauk Valley Community College student majoring in physical therapy.

A Tampico High School alumni group is trying to raise money to restore the rusting scoreboard.

The United Way of Whiteside County awarded its third collaborative grant to the Sterling-Rock Falls YMCA and Tri-County Opportunities Council.

MORRISON – The Morrison High School girl's varsity basketball coach resigned a day before being charged with giving alcohol to a minor.

Earlier this month, 25 Cub Scouts from six different communities came together to compete on North Second Street in Walnut for the third annual Walnut Cubmobile.

Donald B. Savaria, 51, of Ladd and a 16-year-old Ladd boy were each charged with unlawful use of a weapon following an incident at 1:45 p.m. July 14 in rural Malden.

Golf, girls
 basketball 
coach arrested: Teacher charged with delivering alcohol to minor By SAM SMITH 
ssmith@svnmail.com 
800-798-4085, ext.

Gavin Jensen and his brother Elliot pass over the Hennepin Canal Saturday during the CGH Health Foundation's Tour de Health.

I recently got a chance to go back in time. Well, not exactly back in the past like the guy in The Time Machine.