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By the young, for the young: WACC students helping Amazing Grace build a youth center

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By the young, for the young: WACC students helping Amazing Grace build a youth center
STERLING – Amazing Grace Church is building a $250,000 – or less – youth center using local labor: 50-plus students from the Whiteside Area Career Center's building trades class.
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Sterling authorizes GSDC plan to fund initial work at Lawrence Building

Sterling authorizes GSDC plan to fund initial work at Lawrence Building

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Spreading the good words in Dixon

Spreading the good words in Dixon

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Clock ticks on community health center funding

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Run across Illinois to raise Alzheimer's awareness kicks off in Fulton

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Coping with the worst that can happen

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Putting a face to a natural disaster

Putting a face to a natural disaster

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High court deals another blow to Clean Line project

High court deals another blow to Clean Line project

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Police reports for Friday, Sept. 22, 2017

Police reports for Friday, Sept. 22, 2017

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Property transfers in Lee and Whiteside counties: Sept. 23, 2017

Property transfers in Lee and Whiteside counties: Sept. 23, 2017

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Former bartenders take over PatiO's Irish Pub

Former bartenders take over PatiO's Irish Pub

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Morrison Community Hospital lists 3 things your doctor wants you to know
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Health & MedicalSept. 14, 2017
Sauk plans open house Monday for renovated nursing professions area

Sauk plans open house Monday for renovated nursing professions area

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Daily Record: SVM staff share music reviews and news

Daily Record: SVM staff share music reviews and news

April 24, 2017
Forreston business offers a home on the range for gun enthusiasts

Forreston business offers a home on the range for gun enthusiasts

Local Business 3:11 pm
Best place by far to build Toyota-Mazda plant

Best place by far to build Toyota-Mazda plant

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What is WIC? The Whiteside County Health Department explains
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What is WIC? The Whiteside County Health Department explains

Health & MedicalSept. 14, 2017
Playlist: What We're Listening To

Playlist: What We're Listening To

MusicApril 24, 2017

Local News

Sauk plans open house Monday for renovated nursing professions area

Sauk plans open house Monday for renovated nursing professions area

Come see Sauk's new and improved, technologically updated nursing professions area. There's an open house Monday, with tours and refreshment…
9:11 pm
  • Culvert repairs will close a lane on Route 251
  • Property transfers in Lee and Whiteside counties: Sept. 23, 2017
  • Putting a face to a natural disaster
  • High court deals another blow to Clean Line project

Local Sports

Making a statement

Making a statement

STERLING — It took little over 90 seconds for Sterling to get on the board and little over a quarter for the Golden Warriors to put the game…
12:47 am
  • Dixon responds every time Woodstock gets momentum
  • Lemke-to-Bruggenwirth caps thriller at Bud Cole Field
  • Football: Rock Falls airs it out, but Byron attack too much
  • Le-Win senior RB hits milestone in victory over Wildcatz

Obituaries

Ronald E. Shrock

GREEN FOREST, Ark. – Ronald Eldon Shrock, 55, of Green Forest, formerly of Tampico, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in Branson, Missouri.
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  • Marie E. Johnson
  • Donald F. Stralow
  • Bernard E. ‘Buck’ Donnelly
  • Shirley T. Kilberg

Police Beat

Police reports for Friday, Sept. 22, 2017

Police reports for Friday, Sept. 22, 2017

Sterling Police Daniel S. Rodriguez, 27, of Sterling; 8:33 a.m. Thursday at the Sterling Police Dep…
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  • Police reports for Thursday, Sept, 21, 2017
  • Police reports for Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017
  • Police reports for Monday, Sept. 18, 2017
  • Police reports for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16-17, 2017

Opinion

Best place by far to build Toyota-Mazda plant

Best place by far to build Toyota-Mazda plant

The Wall Street Journal has been relentless in its criticism of Illinois in recent years, largely because of our budget and political proble…
3:56 pm
  • Peace Center is topic of next Forum meeting
  • Airport Board should rethink its bad decision
  • Respect life; be part of Life Chain on Oct. 1
  • Coping with the worst that can happen

Entertainment

‘Ninjago’ doesn’t click like previous Lego movies

‘Ninjago’ doesn’t click like previous Lego movies

If you’re of a certain age and childless, it’s entirely possible you haven’t the foggiest idea what …
12:10 am
  • Yusuf taps into his Cat years: A new album marks the musician’s 50-year career with a return to his classic sound
  • Jam Fest on campus in Mount Morris
  • Get pumped for annual dash in Sterling
  • Spend Fifth Friday with The Funderberg Family

Local Business

Forreston business offers a home on the range for gun enthusiasts

Forreston business offers a home on the range for gun enthusiasts

FORRESTON – Talk about a gun shop with the whole works. A husband-and-wife team in Forreston opened…
3:11 pm
  • Kidney care coming to Sterling shopping center
  • Dixon business is in the pink: Gambling parlor offers rustic charm, local history and video gambling
  • Dunkin' Donuts opening pushed back
  • Perna's Pizza going up for auction

Community

Run across Illinois to raise Alzheimer's awareness kicks off in Fulton

FULTON – A 158-mile run across Illinois to benefit Alzheimer's Association Illinois Chapter will begin at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, by the Mississ…
4:36 pm
  • Mail order bride topic of meeting
  • Support groups, clubs and services
  • Support groups, clubs and services
  • Support groups, clubs and services

Lifestyle

ealth problems cause dad to question parentage

ealth problems cause dad to question parentage

Dear abby,My first marriage ended in divorce 35 years ago because my wife had cheated on me several …
12:10 am
  • Without price breaks, rural hospitals struggle to stock costly drugs
  • New bill could leave millions uninsured
  • Dear Abby: Woman's co-worker's ridicule her extreme aversion to blood
  • A process of elimination for healthier living

State

Illinois health care exchange rates could increase by 2018

SPRINGFIELD (AP) – A report from an Illinois agency says residents who buy insurance on the state’s …
Sept. 21, 2017
  • Illinois court upholds murder conviction of Drew Peterson
  • 1 student shot, 1 arrested at central Illinois high school
  • First West Nile fatality reported in Illinois
  • Drury leaves Illinois governor's race to run for attorney general

Nation & World

Despair rises for relatives of the missing in Mexico quake

Despair rises for relatives of the missing in Mexico quake

MEXICO CITY (AP) – As painstaking attempts to reach survivors in quake-ravaged buildings across Mexi…
Sept. 21, 2017
  • Powerless: Puerto Rico faces weeks without electricity
  • Government seeks prison time for Weiner in sexting case
  • Domestic violence homicide rate drops with stricter gun law, study finds
  • Michigan lottery tickets with 4 zeroes are worth $5,000

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Letters to the Editor

  • Peace Center is topic of next Forum meeting
  • Airport Board should rethink its bad decision
  • Respect life; be part of Life Chain on Oct. 1
  • Dare to seek unconditional forgiveness
  • CASA needs support in a variety of ways
  • ‘Unchecked abuse of power going on here’
  • Airport Board's controlling trio has done it again
  • Rankled by Airport Board’s latest meeting
  • Young pedestrians face additional peril in September
  • Support for Legion event is appreciated
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