Dixon Board approves land purchase for 70 space parking lot
Lee County Board votes to acquire three parcels on Hennepin Ave across from the Dixon Police Department to build a 26 025 square foot lot with about 70 spaces. Purchase totals 88 000 dollars plus 62 000 for demolition and paving. Properties owned by Greg and Sue Van Matre Richard Hann and Brian and Lisa Geiger. Park would serve sheriff's department and county workers and may be open to the public. Board also approves pay phones in Lee County Jail blocks to recoup costs via calls, potentially 5 000 dollars yearly.
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Ashton students to carry insurance for all sports
Ashton district 275 school board requires insurance for all athletic participants next school year. Superintendent George Taubenheim notes injuries in contact and non contact sports and cites liability rulings as prompting the measure. Also approved milk and gasoline purchases, and set Aug. 21 as hearing date for the 1989 90 budget.
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Muller Pinehurst Dairy
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Polo sewer project begins along Maple and Buffalo Streets
Polo starts digging today for a new sanitary sewer system funded in part by a 365000 CDAP grant toward a total project cost of 605000. Water and Sewer Commissioner Gordy Jones said crews will lay pipes east from Buffalo to Pleasant Street with limited traffic disruption until the Illinois Route 26 intersection work begins.
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Bennett to testify in Pierce re trial in Dixon weeks
Lee County State's Attorney Dan Fish subpoenas Kathy Bennett to testify in the Pierce re trial after Bennett, serving 55 year sentence for two counts of first degree murder in the November 2 beating and stabbing death of Carrie Duncan, 80, Paw Paw. The re trial follows a reversal of Pierce's April conviction due to disclosure issues and now centers on whether Bennett’s testimony will implicate Pierce.
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