Utica News

We present an abbreviated schedule of this weekend's lights festivals in four La Salle County communities.

The Utica Fire Department visited Waltham Elementary School to help with a fire drill and talk to students about being a firefighter.

Karen King is a busy, busy woman. The Western Springs resident is not only the manager of Adventist Paulson Rehab in Willowbrook, but is also the vice president of the Lyons Township High School Parent Teacher Council, a regular volunteer at the Ridgewood Civic Association in Western Springs and the mother of two children.

Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Resort in Utica, Ill., has been regularly hosting Brown's Oakridge Exotics , a business that hauls exotic animals to various venues for display and charges the public to have photos taken with tiger cubs and other baby animals.

Richard Hallett of Utica, whose public service career in La Salle County abruptly ended 21 years ago after a stroke, died Monday morning at the La Salle Healthcare Center in La Salle.

WilleyWorld Community Productions, Walt Willey and Kim "Howard" a Johnson, recently announced their next series of community productions, which include a comedy show this weekend and a play chronicling the Cherry Mine Disaster.

In the days leading up to Veterans Day our pages have been full of letters, columns and articles and photos dedicated to the importance of this day.

There's nothing like sun to gladden a farmer's heart at harvest time. After a long spell of rain, recent sunny days have allowed local farmers to get busy bringing in their crops.

Utica has proven for a third time that everyone loves a parade, especially if it's one honoring our nation's veterans.

Here are some of the local planned Veterans Day activities : Ottawa The Ottawa Memorial Association will conduct a ceremony at 10 a.m. in Washington Square.

Edward P. Kazirskis, 24, 517 E. Marquette St., was arrested Wednesday at Farm & Fleet, 4140 Columbus St., on a complaint of retail theft.

Terry Weiden is putting the finishing touches on Utica's Veterans Day celebration, but there is always room for more.

Drs. Brett L. and Janet L. Casanova, upper cervical chiropractors of Casanova Chiropractic, 417 Cornell St., Ottawa, attended the annual fall convention of the Illinois Prairie State Chiropractic Association Oct.

NO TOWNSHIP UNIT No Township Unit of Home and Community Education met Oct. 27 at Duffy's Tavern in Utica for lunch.

Most local elementary school districts met the benchmarks overall under the state's version of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation, but even while school officials breathe a sigh of relief, they wonder how many more years that success will last.

Ethan Credi was born 26 weeks prematurely. He weighed only two pounds and 2 ounces.

One hundred volunteers are needed Saturday morning to help plant the 200 oak trees that will make up the Illinois Fallen Soldiers Tree Memorial.

A second bout of sadness surrounds Kiddieland, as the legendary amusement park lost a chance to be sold as a whole and will instead be auctioned Nov.

A second bout of sadness surrounds Kiddieland, as the legendary amusement park lost a chance to be sold as a whole and will instead be auctioned Nov.

TOPIC: The possibility of a high-speed commuter rail line connecting several towns in La Salle County has been on the table for several years.