Sereno plans new hardware store at 210 Buchanan St
Construction starts on a new Sereno hardware store behind the existing site at Illinois 47. Kenneth Sereno says the 80 by 125 foot building with 10,000 square feet will replace the present 7,800 square foot store and include 50 parking spaces. The project, tied to widening Illinois 47, aims for outside completion next week and move in January with a $180 permit on a $120,000 project.
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Williareth Clinic
E. Jackson St
Graham Dental
G. C. Willareth
John Ronchetti
Coal City
Grundy County
Willareth
Morris
Baum
State Chiropractic Association
Palmer College Alumni Association of Illinois
Linda
Tiffin
Sereno
Buchanan St
Illinois 47
Kenneth Sereno
Stare
Weeek
Morris Building and
Wilfred Dix
Willareth Clinic of Chiropractic
Johnson Enerprises
Bruce St
Red Bud Lane
Leland Roe
Minooka
Sherwood Place
Hatcher Woods
Louis Kowalczyk
Price St
Trend Builders
Lynwood St
Trend
Zoning Board to Continue Goose Lake Lot Hearing
Grundy County Zoning Board of Appeals will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Grundy County Courthouse to continue a hearing on dividing lots in Goose Lake Subdivision. Five petitioners protest the denial of zoning certificates for one-half lots in Lincoln Lake No. 5 by Building and Zoning Officer Eugene Sorensen.
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Grundy
Weather forecast and recent readings for Dresden Island area
Tonight and Saturday expect partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures. Dresden Island Locks and Dam reported Thursday high 41 and low 22, with morning readings near 24 in Morris and 38 later. ESDA noted Morris high 40 and low 22. barometer 30.14 rising. peak wind 12 mph.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
ESDA
Series of 100 quakes rattles Brawley area
Nearly 100 earthquakes struck in 24 hours around Brawley, California, from 2 on the Richter scale to 4.9, with minor effects like burglar alarms and a swaying police station. Caltech seismologists logged the Imperial Valley swarm as residents kept calm amid repeated tremors.
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Tory
Caltech
Pasadena
Imperial Valley
el Centro
Kathy Walker
Morris Community High School building proposal on Wednesday
An architectural presentation on a Morris Community High School expansion is set for the board meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the annex, linked to the building expansion committee report. The agenda also lists resignations from the I.M.C. department, a custodian, an out of state baseball trip, and a Morris Hospital request.
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Morris Community High School
The
Morris Hospital
Auto price hikes exceed improvements on 1977 models
The Labor Department says 1977 model improvements are worth at most $47.05 factory price and $59.15 at retail, yet the average suggested retail price rose by $382.30. Improvements cited include emission control redesigns, fuel system changes, safer bumpers, wind shield standards, and other quality updates totaling $37.90 or more.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Grundy Kendall seek merger of two county education regions
A petition calling for the consolidation of Grundy and Kendall County Educational Service Regions was drafted by Citizens Committees. A public hearing will be held at the Kendall County Courthouse, with decisions by regional boards within 10 days after the hearing.
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Grundy
Kendall County
Educational Service
Citizens’ Committees
Grundy County
Richard Krase
Educational Service Region
Joseph Cronin
Gerald White
Gardner
Lorraine Torkelson
Morris
John Hauschild
Mazon
Herbert Weitz
Jack Satorius
Minooka
John Bednarcik
Oswego
Sherwin Gilbertson
Newark
Jeneatte Nessen
Plano
A. F. von Behren
Kendall
Carter vows to keep promises after slim Plains win
President-elect Jimmy Carter says his narrow victory shows a mandate to pursue tax and welfare reform and government reorganization. He hints at a possible tax cut for lower income workers if the economy stays weak and hedges on committing U.S. troops to defend Yugoslavia if the Soviet Union invades. He speaks calmly at a news conference in Plains with about 400 townspeople listening.
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Yugoslavia
Georgia
Carter
Ford
Washington
White House
Congress
Soviet Union
Car veers off highway into field near Morris
A Colorado man was treated at Morris Hospital after his car left I 80 about one mile west of Morris, went through a fence and into a cornfield. In Bartlett, Illinois a fatal collision occurred when a car hit Amtrak Blackhawk No. 370 near IL 59, killing at least one woman and injuring no one on the train. the train passengers were bused to Chicago. Walter Shelton III, 31, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., was treated at Morris Hospital after the crash.
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Morris Hospital
Morris
Bartlett, Ill
UPI
Amtrak
Chicago
Blackhawk
Sherman Hospital
Elgin
Walter Shelton III
Wheat Ridge
Colo
Morris Ambulance Service
Robert Talley
Deep River
Iowa
Grundy County
Jeff Wix
Shelton
Talley
Illinois Highway Department
Chicago Man Shot Dead After Alleged Abuse of Son
In Chicago several details emerge as police say a 40 year old postal worker Emmett Freeman was shot in his South Side home while asleep. His 15 year old son, named in a delinquency petition for murder, was later arrested at the scene. The shooter remains unidentified.
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Chicago
UPI
Emmett Freeman
South Side
Freeman
La Salle II expedition canoe overturns near Washington Island
A La Salle II expedition canoe with four aboard capsized at Death's Door Passage near Gills Rock Door County Wisconsin. All 23 expedition members plus equipment reached shore safely. The group departed August 11 from Montreal and includes students educators a priest and a playwright traveling in six canoes.
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Wis
UPI
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Death's Door Passage
Gills Rock
Door County
Montreal
la Salle
Elgin
Chicago
Crown Point
Edison expands Dresden switchyard with new circuit breakers
Commonwealth Edison gains permit from Grundy County to install concrete foundations and troughs for underground cables in the Dresden 345 kilovolt switchyard. Project aims to add circuit breakers at a $12,000 cost, starting Oct. 15. Edison pays $50 for the permit. General Electric also secures funds to enlarge Goose Lake Township’s nuclear fuel storage lagoon at about $34,000 with a $50 permit. Additional permits issued across Aux Sable Braceville Mazon Saratoga and other townships cover multiple residential and storage buildings with varied fees and values.
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Dresden
General Electric
Goose Lake Township
Aux Sable
Thomas Gleason
Tabler Rd
Minooka
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