By Marianne Mueller REPORTER Local fire departments turned up the heat on friendly competition on July 23. The occasion was the Rockton Roscoe Rotary Rib Fest, returning for a second year, welcoming back some of the same participants. One of the departments who returned to the scene at Viking Lanes […]
By Margaret Downing REPORTER At the July 18 Loves Park city council meeting, aldermen approved two resolutions and one ordinance, first reading. *A resolution authorizing the Loves Park Fire Department to purchase a used 2019 Braun Chief XL w/Dodge (ambulance) 550 4X4 Diesel w/12,000 miles from North Central Emergency Vehicle […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER The village Zoning Code defines and regulates all wind-operated energy devices, with such terminals only being permitted on agriculturally zoned properties that are at least 2 ½ acres in size. They are allowed with a special use permit on residential, office and commercial lots but, again, […]
The Byron Forest Preserve District will be holding a lottery for archery deer hunting at two District preserves this summer for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 archery seasons. A lottery drawing will be held to randomly select six hunters for archery season hunting permission at the District’s Howard Colman Hall Creek […]
During the early morning hours of Saturday, July 15, the Winnebago Police Department responded to a report of a domestic disturbance between Matthew Williams and his mother. At that time Williams got out of his mother’s vehicle at another location within the Village of Winnebago. Williams was not present when […]