Budget delays after sanitarian threat to resign in Grundy
Grundy County Health Department budget talks were deferred after Dr. Hilton Curry warned he would resign citing being overworked and understaffed. The board discussed shared staffing with Kendall and DuPage counties, secretarial needs, and potential new hires amid funding questions.
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Grundy County Health Department
Hilton
Grundy County Board of Health
Health Department
Edwards St
Curry
Kendall County
Grundy
DuPage County
Kendall Counties
Dr. Curry
Kendall
Myronage
Tom Parks
Grundy County
Peter Cacello
Ed Connor
Harry Henderson
William Waters
Harry
Wollgast
Earl Bingham
Health Department Board
Department of Health
Mary Reed
Grundy Health Department
School district policy eyed to recoup housing growth costs
Officials from Morris Community High School Morris Saratoga Nettle Creek boards met to plan delaying housing approvals until ordinances ensure developer compensation for school impacts. Proposals set site size five acres for elementary schools plus one acre per additional grade level, with land or cash contributions.
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Morris Community High
Morris
Saratoga
Nettle Creek
Shabbona School
Robert Chord
Wayne Hodgson
MCHS
Car crash injures driver at Illinois 47 113 intersection
A 28 year old Grand Ridge man was admitted in critical condition to Morris Hospital after a car semitruck collision on Illinois 47 at Illinois 113 at 8 AM. The semi driver John J. Ruder 59 of Gardner was ticketed for failure to yield.
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Grand Ridge
Morris Hospital
Illinois 47
Illinois
George B. Kinney
Rt. 1
Coal City
John J. Ruder
Monroe St
Gardner
Ruder
Hendrickson
Kinney
Grell
Wilmington
Stott
Morris
Bloomington
Interstate 55
Otto Rappe
Patterson Ambulance
Braidwood
Pat
Dwight
Carson Hotel
B H
Washington St
Ed Kramer
Davis Ambulance
Parade entries sought for Grundy County Corn Festival
Grundy County Corn Festival parade chairman Tom Dzuryak says entries for the 24th annual event are now being accepted at the Grundy County Chamber of Commerce office in Morris. The parade starts at 2 p.m. Sunday Oct 1 along Liberty Street from Washington to Depot Streets with expanded categories for trophies in Civic, youth, and commercial homemade and commercial professionally made floats.
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Tom Dzuryak
Grundy County
Dzuryak
Morris Redskin
Ottawa Marquette
Morris
Morris Airport
Experimental Aircraft Association
International Aerobatics Club
Canada
Bob Wagner
Chamber of Commerce Office
Weather Update Indicates Warm, Scattered Storms Near 90
Partly sunny and warm today with a high near 90. Afternoon and tonight show chances of thunderstorms, with a low around 70 to 75. Friday brings variable clouds and possible showers, cooler highs in the 70s. Nenad Island Locks and Dam logged a 90 degree high and 65 low, while Morris downtown measured 67 at 7am and 76 at 10:30am.
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Middle Nenad Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Nixon and Tanaka hold Vietnam focused talks in Honolulu
President Nixon opens mid Pacific discussions with Japan Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka prioritizing Vietnam policy and a possible one to two billion dollar trade boost from Japan. Bunker reviews Vietnam with Ellsworth Bunker as Kissinger outlines war settlement aims.
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Nixon
Vietnam
Japan
Kakuei Tanaka
Ellsworth Bunker
U.S
Saigon
Nix
Hickam Air Force Base
United States
Tanaka
Tokyo
China
Hawaii
Nixons
Oceanside
Long
Clare Boothe Luce
Henry A. Kissinger
Bunker
Ogilvie Opposes Teacher Strikes During Campaign
Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie voiced strong opposition to teacher strikes while campaigning in Southern Illinois. He said he supports collective bargaining by teachers but opposes using strikes to advance objectives, a stance contrasting with Democratic opponent Daniel Walker.
Creed services mark funeral escort for Morris employee
Two of three Grundy County Sheriff squad cars escorted the funeral motorcade for Peter Creed from Morris to Ottawa. Burial followed at Oakwood Memorial Park with pallbearers including Sheriff deputies and a conservation inspector. Creed died at Morris Hospital after being found near his apartment. autopsy showed five broken ribs and a head bump.
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Grundy County Sheriff's Department
Peter Creed
Morris
Ottawa
Oakwood Memorial Park
First United Methodist Church of
LaSalle County
Creed
Button
Sorensen Recovers After Spinal Surgery at Silver Cross
Eugene Sorensen Grundy County building and zoning officer is recuperating from spinal surgery performed Monday at Silver Cross Hospital Joliet his wife said this morning. His release date is not yet known.
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Eugene Sorensen
Grundy County
Silver Cross Hospital
Joliet
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Carol) Robinson
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Janice) Thompson
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Chicago
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Joseph Kowalczyk
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