Tolono News

TOLONO – Champaign County sheriff's deputies are looking for the driver of a green SUV that struck a female bicyclist on County Road 600 N near Tolono about 9:30 a.m. Monday.

This is a list of the cities, villages and hamlets where Abraham Lincoln gave a speech of one sort or another on his 12-day pre-inaugural trip from Feb.

TOLONO – Some residents in the southwest corner of Tolono hope their days of having standing water in their backyards for weeks at a time will soon be a thing of the past.

PHILO – Philo officials want to hear from a resident who asked if he could open a gun business in his home.

URBANA – A Champaign County judge Thursday sentenced a Bement man to four years in prison for driving so recklessly that he killed a Tolono woman last year.

CHAMPAIGN – A woman was robbed Saturday after a man sprayed pepper spray in her face.

Tolono came into Shelbyville acting like world beaters, but the Lady Rams used their tried and true formula to knock that chip off Unity's shoulder and get the, 5-2, conference win on Wednesday.

URBANA – Patty Hicks has had to do the unthinkable for a parent: learn to adjust to life without a child.

Miriam Faux on piano accordion, Jerome Colburn on penny whistle, and Shane Rhoades on banjo plays as Emerald Rum, an Irish folk band, at The Blind Pig on Sunday.

TOLONO – Stockholders of two major grain companies in Champaign County have agreed to a merger.

TOLONO – The Unit 7 school board agreed to cost-saving measures Wednesday in buying less expensive security video surveillance equipment and paying for substitute teacher background checks.

URBANA – A Tolono woman told Urbana police that she witnessed an attempted shooting early Sunday.

URBANA – A 71-year-old Tolono man was charged Wednesday with a single count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for an incident that allegedly occurred in 2006.

She teaches fourth grade in Tolono and says her favorite part about it is getting to know the kids.

TOLONO – A volunteer youth basketball coach is due in court Feb. 18 with a private attorney on a charge stemming from a melee at a game Monday night.

TOLONO – A junior high boys' basketball coach was due to appear in arraignment court in Urbana today after being arrested at a melee during a game Monday night.

A pending sexual harassment case has Tolono board members brushing up on their policy.

TOLONO – Residents here soon will be able to dispose of their newspaper, glass and plastic without having them end up in a landfill.