Weather brings warm spell before colder snap returns
Area residents enjoyed an unseasonably warm January with highs near 50 as springlike jackets replaced winter layers. In Chateau Estates a 9 year old and 8 year old ride bikes and shovel dirt into a sewer pipe while weathered workers plan spring construction. The coming night will bring a drop to the lower 30s and a 50 percent chance of wet snow or rain snow mix.
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Mother Nature
Danny Miller
Jamie Jones
Chateau Estates
Richard Dir
Maple Lanes stay blocks liquor suspension ruling
Rochelle Maple Lanes Bowling Center’s 15 day AB liquor suspension ordered earlier this month by Mayor Gail Loefgren was stayed pending a hearing before the Illinois State Liquor Commission. The case arose after a minor, Cherie Spradlin of Dixon, reportedly drank at Maple Lanes. A Chicago ISLC hearing date has not been set.
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Rochelle
Maple Lanes
Gail Loefgren
Illinois State Liquor Commission
ISLC
Cherie L. Spradlin
Dixon
Maples Lanes
David Tess
Rochelle Liquor Control Commission
RLCC
Spradlin
Dennis Hewitt
Liquor Commission
Hewitt
Tess
Chicago
Oregon to pay 20 000 for new curbs on Fourth Street
Oregon will fund about 20 thousand of the one million cost to install curbs and gutters on Fourth Street with the rest covered by state funds due to Illinois Route 2. The city plans 30 thousand in motor fuel tax money for seal coating and other street projects. Mayor Jim Barnes and residents critique a long term TCI Growth contract, while the city weighs a shorter term option.
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Oregon
Fourth Street
Jim Lauer
Terrace View Road
Oregon Trail Road
Illinois
Worth Street
Mix
Seventh Streets
Sandsucker Recreation Center
West Side River
Lauer
TCI Growth, Inc
Cable Company
Jim Barnes
Roth
Franklin Grove Road
Dixon Board to consider settlement over school roof injury
The Dixon Board of Education will consider approving a settlement in a lawsuit filed by Wendell E. Myers for injuries sustained in 1983 during the health and safety project at Dixon High School. The deal totals 106638 dollars with 40000 from the district and 40000 from Williams Brothers, 5000 from Huff Architectural Group, and 21638 from Illinois Valley Glass.
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Dixon Board of Education
Wendell E. Myers
Illinois Valley Glass
Dixon High School
DHS
Larry Roth
Dixon Public Schools
Myers
Williams Brothers
Huff Architectural Group
Roth
Sauk board rejects mileage move proposal
Sauk Valley Community College Board rejected President Richard Behrendt’s plan for automatic mileage increases tied to IRS rates. Current IRS 24 cents vs Sauk’s 21 cents prompted debate on policy automaticity and budget constraints. Board members Groharing and Yemm supported first reading. Wolf and acting chair Peterson opposed. motion defeated on a tie.
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Sauk Valley Community College Board
Richard Behrendt
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Sauk
Behrendt
Robert Wolf
Wolf
Richard Groharing
Morrison
Groharing
William Yemm
Sterling
Yemm
Eddie Peterson
William Simpson
Ed Anderson
Joe McDonald
Peterson
Manlius
Illinois Valley Community College
Blackhawk Community College
Joyce McClintock
Janice Anderson
Cheryl Price
Gail Stickle
Allied Health
Jeffrey Fearn
Sauk Board
Rural home fire draws 25 firefighters and injuries
Firefighters from Dixon City and Dixon Rural assisted Rock Falls on Monday as a rural home at 814 Schilpp Road burned. The two story farmhouse owned by Ed Manion sustained major damage with about four hours of effort. One rescuer was electro shocked and another occupant was treated for breathlessness. no fatalities reported.
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Dixon City
Dixon Rural Fire Departments
Rock Falls
Schilpp Road
Harmon
Dave Wallingford
Voss
Grand Detour
Nachusa
Dixon Rural
Wallingford
Bill Wescott
Brian Brown
Community General Hospital
Sterling
Wescott
Brown
Manion
Dixon Sister Cities Panel Sets Meeting at City Hall
Dixon's Sister Cities Committee will convene at 7 p.m. today in city hall with Mayor James Dixon naming Glenna Beckman as chairman. Members will view Reagan's letter to Kartamyshev and discuss exchange ideas after noting the Soviet mayor's crystal medallion gift.
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Dixon
City Hall
James Dixon
Glenna Beckman
Nikolai Kartamyshev
Ronald Reagan
Kartamyshev
Reagan
Bill Thompson
Dickson
Siberia
Illinois
Dixon Sister Cities
Robbery at Stop-N-Go in Dixon. two suspects sought
Two white males robbed Stop-N-Go Food Store at 1000 E River Road in Dixon early Sunday, taking nearly 100 dollars. Witnesses described a 5'8" 150 lb man in a green sweatshirt and a 5'10" 140 lb man with shoulder length hair. Ford Gran Torino involved. no injuries. Police released composite sketches and urge tips to Dixon Police at 288-4411.
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E. River Road
Dixon
Robert Short
Dixon Police
Short
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