Putnam County News

A Business Breakfast Seminar, sponsored by the Illinois Valley Area Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Business Breakfast Seminar Committee, will be held at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at Mario's Maples Supper Club in Peru.

The Bureau County Health Department makes routine and unannounced visits each month to various food service establishments in Bureau and Putnam counties to inspect the operation.

Q. The Times recently printed a financial report for LEASE. What is that? A. The La Salle/Putnam County Educational Alliance for Special Education provides the organized administration of all special education programs and services for La Salle and Putnam counties.

Nancy Antkowiak and her husband, Dave, prepare the gift shop at the Putnam County Senior Center in Standard for the annual fall bazaar, which will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov.

Veterans Day ceremony PRINCETON - The Princeton Veterans Group of Princeton, consisting of American Legion Post 125, VFW Post 4323 and AMVETS Post 180, and the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 125 of Princeton, will conduct Veterans Day ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. Nov.

The Bureau County Health Department makes routine and unannounced visits each month to various food service establishments in Bureau and Putnam counties to inspect the operation.

A local community organization will receive a $125,000 national grant to fight drug abuse among area youth.

"We're a family," said Denetta Reddick of Ottawa, with eyes nearing tears as she spoke of her nearly 250 co-workers who are struggling in the aftermath of being laid off from Hennepin's shuttered ArcelorMittal rolled-steel mill earlier this year.

"We're a family," said Denetta Reddick of Ottawa, with eyes nearing tears as she spoke of her nearly 250 co-workers who are struggling in the aftermath of being laid off from Hennepin's shuttered ArcelorMittal rolled-steel mill earlier this year.

A case of H1N1 flu, commonly called swine flu, has been confirmed in Putnam County.

The Bureau County Health Department makes routine and unannounced visits each month to various food service establishments in Bureau and Putnam counties to inspect the operations.

Conrad Camellino estimated he has participated in about a dozen spelling bees since third grade, and quirky behavior is commonplace.

Rep. Aaron Schock issued the following statement following Thursday's meeting: “Arcelor's decision to close the Hennepin plant will have a devastating economic impact on Putnam County and the Illinois Valley area.

The Bureau County Health Department makes routine and unannounced visits each month to various food service establishments in Bureau and Putnam counties to inspect the operation.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service published county-level data on cash rental rates for agricultural land May 1, and local non-irrigated cropland is going for some of the higher rates in the state.

The Illinois Valley Herb Guild will hold its annual Herb Faire from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at St.

GRANVILLE – The Putnam County coroner said Wednesday that the younger of two central Illinois brothers found dead in their father's car died from a combination of a drug overdose and a stab wound in the back.

A pregnant young woman from Lowpoint was sentenced Thursday to six months in the Putnam County Jail later this year for a sex offense unrelated to her pregnancy.

An exasperated judge agreed Thursday to postpone until October a high-profile trial that had been set to start Monday after the Putnam County prosecutor filed six new charges because of what he called "defects" in an earlier indictment.

The Putnam County Historical Society will present the Putnam Cemetery Walk from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.