Tonica News

SCHROEDER Velora Schroeder of rural Tonica will celebrate her 96th birthday. She was born July 4, 1913, in Vermillion Township, to John and Caroline Rose.

In our area, cornfields that would be starting to exhibit tassels around the Fourth of July are around knee-high. The cornfield next to my house is 24 to 26 inches tall.

Lilliana Katherine Ishee, daughter of Brian D. and Melissa Ishee of Bristol, Wis., was baptized May 17 at St.

CARA SALZ of rural Tonica received a bachelor"s degree in communication sciences and disorders from Illinois State University May 8. She graduated summa cum laude with a grade point average of 4.0 and will continue her graduate study in speech pathology at ISU in the fall.

Doug Stockley, Earlville Planting continued to progress last week. I would estimate in our area most of the field corn and more than 90 percent of the soybeans are planted.

The 2009 Tonica High School Alumni Committee will meet at 5:50 p.m. June 16 at Liberty Restaurant.

Route 34, three-fourths of a mile to three miles west of Route 251, near Mendota, will be closed beginning Monday, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.

A 14-year-old girl was cited Wednesday at Congress and Division streets on a complaint of unlawful possession of smoking materials by a minor.

The Streator and Allen Township fire departments hope they never need a grain rescue tube, but hope to have one in the case of a grain mishap.

Princeton Public Library announces the final events for the Between Fences exhibition, a cooperation between Princeton Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution and the Illinois Humanities Council.

Steve “Pinky” Sandor, of Ottawa, and his son Adam Sandor of Tonica, show off four of the fish that helped them capture first place at the Spring Valley Masters Walleye Circuit event held over the weekend.

Ladd's Tom Giachetto Jr. and his father Tom Giachetto Sr., also of Ladd, fish the Illinois River during last weekend's Masters Walleye Circuit tournament in Spring Valley.

More than half the field weighed a five-fish limit on Day 1 of the MWC tournament out of Spring Valley.

"Smoot Hawley" sounds like the name of some guy my Dad grew up with back in Tonica, Illinois.

After an almost two-week trial, a La Salle County jury took a little more than five hours Monday to find in favor of a Tonica man and against a Peru doctor The eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated from 1:30 to 6:45 p.m., when they decided Jack Hughes Sr.

A LaSalle County jury has awarded $1 million to a Tonica man who sued an orthopedic surgeon who mishandled his knee surgery.

A program for the free pickup of recyclable metal items adopted by Ottawa in January has been, well, recycled for use in Marseilles.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER IN SENECA AND LOSTANT Women and men in more than 170 countries and regions will celebrate World Day of Prayer Friday, March 6. The Seneca service will be at Stavanger Lutheran Church, E. ...

The ice-climbing conditions were the best he had ever seen. But Dr. Tim Koschmann's excitement turned momentarily to disappointment when he saw the number of climbers lined up for a chance to scale the ...

Dwight Farber, a project manager for Horizon Wind Energy, will be the speaker at the La Salle County Soil & Water Conservation District's annual meeting on Thursday, Feb.