Rochelle Wins Funding For City Wastewater Plant Renovation
Rochelle celebrates funding approval for the 8.1 million wastewater plant overhaul. After 18 months, Build Illinois Funds and state grants secure 4.87 million in savings, with phase one funded by DCCA and EPA grants. Mayor Loefgren touts the deal as a decade milestone amid industry partnership.
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Rochelle
City Hall
Illinois
Gail Loefgren
Environmental Protection Agency
Loefgren
Myron Olson
Caron International
FDL Foods
Mick Finn
FDL
Floyd Albers
Cold Weather Keeps Rt. 38 Work Going East of Dixon
Despite a daytime high of 16 degrees on Wednesday, crews from Bob Proprietor Construction Co. in Sterling continued expanding the Illinois Rt. 38 project east of Dixon. Workers extended a water drainage pipe beneath the road as snow falls. Overnight temperatures slipped to minus seven.
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Dixon
Bob Proprietor Construction Co
Sterling
Dixon eyed for new shopping center by Omaha developer
Noddle Development Company vice president Jerry Slusky said the firm is studying several Dixon sites for a possible shopping center. He stressed no location, anchors, or size have been decided and that decisions may come in late February after feasibility work conducted during winter. The firm is also developing a center in Mendota and was drawn to Dixon by the community.
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Telegraph
Omaha
Nebraska
Dixon
Jerry Slusky
Noddle Development Company
the Telegraph
Slusky
Mendota
El Salvador frees church worker Jennifer Casolo returns to U S
Jennifer Casolo a church worker from Thomaston Connecticut was released by Salvadoran authorities after 17 days in custody on weapons charges. She arrived at Miami International Airport and said she felt good about being back in the United States. Casolo denied the charges and said she found the events in El Salvador exhausting and psychologically abusive.
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UPI
Jennifer Casolo
el Salvador
United States
Casole
Miami International
Daniel Long
Christian Education Seminars
Casolo
Thomaston
Conn
Long
Dixon Pastor Praises Casolo Release After Salvadoran Trial
Pastor William Swarbrick of Dixon writes a guest editorial praising President Bush for intervening in the release of Jennifer Casolo from a Salvadoran jail after 17 days. In El Salvador she faced charges of concealing weapons for leftist rebels. Relatives in Casolo’s rural hometown welcomed her return with a large sign as bells rang and residents expressed relief and gratitude.
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Dixon
The
Telegraph
Jennifer Casolo
Swarbrick
Jennifer
el Salvador
Bush
Salvador
Casolo
Frigid weather across Midwest with near white Christmas
A Rock River Valley forecast shows temperatures staying well below normal for the next 10 to 11 days, keeping snow from melting. Dixon and Rockford report subzero lows while surrounding regions face record lows and new snowfall from the upper Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic.
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Rockford
Illinois
Dave Petrovich
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Orlando
Fla
Peoria
Upper Great Lakes
Door County
Wisconsin
Mid-Atlantic
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Delaware
New Jersey
Land
Middle Atlantic
Virginia Mountains
Local leaders fault summit for omitting funding inequity
Telegraph reports that several Illinois school officials say Gov. James Thompson and the Springfield forum failed to address funding disparities between rich and poor districts. Critics note the summit focused on Bush era education goals while inequity remains unresolved until 1991 legislative action.
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James Thompson
Springfield
The
Telegraph
Dent Robert Aubry
George Bush
Thompson
Cheney orders additional 25,000 troop cuts in 1990
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney indicates the Pentagon will trim 25,000 more troops in fiscal 1990, on top of a 21,000 already planned, shrinking U.S. forces by 46,000 from 2.1 million. About half the cuts hit the Army and Air Force. no Europe withdrawals beyond existing targets.
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