Rochelle weighs 1 tax for hotel rooms and tourism
Rochelle plans a one percent hotel motel room tax to fund tourism and economic development. Mayor Gail Loefgren will introduce the ordinance at the Monday council meeting and also form a tourism advisory board to manage funds. The Concord Inn and Colonado Motel operations are cited with room counts and rates.
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Rochelle
Gail Loefgren
Civic Center
Concord Inn
Hickory Grove
Loefgren
Highway 251
Kim Long
Long
Colonado
Highway 215
Armila Jain
Rural hospital seeks equal reimbursements and continuity
Rural Community Hospital faces years of operating losses as it lobbies for equal Medicare reimbursements by 1995. The 42 bed facility, with 160 staff and an average daily census of 16, has invested in ICU equipment and extensive environmental upgrades to maintain services. Executive Administrator Gordon Hall warns further cuts could force service reductions or closures, while Byas notes progress toward equity and smaller hospitals gaining larger shares for same procedures.
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Byas
RCH
Gordon Hall
Dixon Man In Critical Condition After Fourth Avenue Crash
REGIONAL REPORT Dixon Police say William H. Lewis aged 66 of 1100 North Washington Avenue was struck by a northbound car driven by Steven Adcock 19 of 628 Willett Avenue as he crossed Fourth Avenue at Galena Avenue. The incident remains under investigation with no charges filed. Lewis was being transported to St Francis Hospital in Peoria.
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Dixon
KSB
Fourth Avenue
Galena Avenue
William H. Lewis
Washington Ave
Steven Adcock
Willett Ave
Lewis
St. Francis Hospital
Peoria
First baby of the 1990s receives a note from 1980s first born
Jennifer Ann Hiscox born January 3 1980 in Dixon weighs seven pounds 13 3/4 ounces and writes to the new year’s first baby Christopher Lee James born January 1 1990 in Dixon. Jennifer now lives in Watertown Wisconsin and attends Douglas Elementary School with one brother Christopher. Christopher is the first baby of 1990 born at KSB Hospital to Sherri and Jim James of Grand Detour.
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Dixon
Jennifer Ann Hiscox
Christopher Lee James
Jennifer
KSB Hospital
John Hiscox
Polo
Dixon Telegraph
Watertown
Wis
Douglas Elementary
Christopher
Ksb
Sherri
Jim James
Wordsworth lecture at Dixon Public Library on Romanticism
Ed Beatty associate professor of English at Sauk Valley Community College will give a free lecture at 7 p.m. Monday at the Dixon Public Library in conjunction with the traveling exhibit Wordsworth and the Age of Romanticism. The talk covers Romanticism's key role in shaping the modern western world and Beatty's 25 years studying Wordsworth.
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Ed Beatty
Sauk Valley Community College
Dixon Public Library
Beatty
Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
Kathryn Blain
Blain
Dixon Library
New York Public Library
Chicago Historical Society
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb
University of Wisconsin-Madison
SVCC
Illinois Humanities Council
ComEd dispute over Byron plant property and taxes
ComEd challenges county appraisal of Byron nuclear plant property arguing piping and overhead costs should be personal property not part of real estate. County must ensure uniform assessments, with an appeal possible to the state Tax Review Board if Byron schools push for higher figures. Byron School Superintendent declined comment on future actions.
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Sonal Property
Elliot
ComEd
Ogle County
State
Byron
Rigney seeks investigation into LP gas price rise
State Sen. Harlan Rigney of Freeport urged Illinois to have the Department of Energy and Natural Resources investigate rising liquid propane prices. He questioned shortages, possible price fixing, and requested a formal report of findings by month’s end.
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Harlan Rigney
Freeport
Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources
Rigney
State Energy Department
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Anne Mott
Mott
Amboy
Federal Communications Commissions
Midwest
United States
Telegraph
Louise Brass
Eddie Holtzclaw
Rochelle Community Hospital
Lucas Allen
Lucas
Shane
Dixon Man
Waddell & Reed
Donald Burton
St Sterling, IL
Hiscox
Robert Millhouse
Orval Hiscox
Mount Morris
W. 1St St
Inn
Rhonda
Bernadine
Dixon ‘Telegraph Classified Department
FDIC
Ambo
Animary
E. Main
Joyce Miller
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