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The seating of a new alderman in Watseka brought about some discussion and questions Tuesday night.
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The Watseka Planning Commission presented several recommendations to the city council Tuesday night which planning commission members say are proactive stances to help the community.
The Watseka Area Chamber of Commerce and Iroquois County Republican Women are hosting “Meet the Mayoral Candidates Night”.
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The Board of Education of Crescent-Iroquois Community Unit District #249 met remotely Tuesday, Feb. 16. Those who were present were Steve Massey, Tim Kollmann, Brock Johnson, Christi Pheifer, Jody Niebuhr and Becky Dirks.
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The Unit 9 School Board met in person with social distancing guidelines Tuesday evening.
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The Iroquois County Republican Central Committee has censured Congressman Adam Kinzinger.
Feb. 15, 2021
MOROCCO, Ind. — Plans for summer renovations were approved following lengthy discussions at a recent North Newton school board meeting. All schools will be converted to solar power, beginning later in the month. Performance Services presented a timeline to the board, outlining their strategi…
Feb. 10, 2021
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The Watseka fire department and police departments were busy in the month of January.
KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS — Iroquois-Kankakee County Regional Superintendent of Schools Gregg Murphy announced that the I-KAN Regional Office of Education has earned system accreditation by Cognia™, a nonprofit organization that provides quality assurance for schools, school districts and education…
Feb. 9, 2021
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Watseka aldermen heard a presentation about Unity for Our Community from Unit 9 representatives Tuesday night.
There will be two information meetings next week about the Unit 9 referendum, according to information provided.
Jan. 26-Feb. 1
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The Crescent City town board met Monday, Feb. 1, with Mayor Mark Rabe calling the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. Cathy Christensen, clerk, took roll call with the following trustees responding: Jim Sorensen, Kim Rabe, Steve Carley, Dennis Ritzma and Joe Belott. Also attending were Emily Schun…
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The City of Watseka is working on union negotiations with water department operators.
SPRINGFIELD –State Representative Tom Bennett (R-Gibson City) has been named to the House Republican leadership team and will serve as an Assistant Republican Leader in the 102nd General Assembly, according to a press release.
Jan. 25-26, 2021
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KENTLAND — According to a special investigation report completed by the Indiana State Board of Accounts, the South Newton School Corporation received an overpayment of state tuition support in the amount of $751,907.
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There were no injuries reported in an early morning vehicle-bus accident in rural Iroquois County Monday.
Jan. 22-25, 2021
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The Crescent-Iroquois Community Unit District #249 Board of Education met Tuesday, Jan. 19 in the Crescent City Grade School gym. Board president Steve Massey called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. with those present reciting the pledge to the flag. Secretary Jody Niebuhr took roll call wi…
Jan. 19-24, 2021
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The Unit 9 School Board took care of several issues at its Jan. 19 meeting.
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The Unit 9 School Board learned this week that the district has passed the next phase of a grant process through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Watseka Police responded to a suicidal subject in the 300 block of W. Oak St at 1:17 a.m. on Jan. 19.
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Jane Daniels, math and science instructor for Crescent City Grade School’s junior high, recently assigned her life science students to construct a DNA model. The requirements were to use any material they wanted, illustrating the base pairs. The base pairs had to be labeled and color coordin…
WASHINGTON — A U.S. airstrike against a Syrian camp used by Iranian-backed militants accused of attacking American bases was a message from President Joe Biden that such attacks would not go unpunished, Pentagon officials said Friday. What meaning Tehran took from the attack on its proxies remains unclear. Biden is hoping to draw Iran into negotiations on reviving a 2015 agreement that ...
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 300 individuals for their roles in January’s Capitol riots, Department of Justice officials said Friday. The announcement came during a press briefing on the threat of domestic terrorism by numerous federal law enforcement agencies, during which officials said that the threat of violence committed by Americans will be a top priority under the Biden ...
HOUSTON – President Joe Biden visited Houston on Friday afternoon to survey the aftermath of last week’s winter storms and the statewide grid collapse that left millions of Texans without power and heat in sub-zero weather. Gov. Greg Abbott, playing chaperone as the new president visits the state’s largest COVID-19 vaccination “super site,” is pressing for him to add more counties to the major ...
WASHINGTON — Days before the House is set to take up the sweeping democracy reform package known as HR 1, a handful of GOP senators proposed new legislation to "restore confidence" in American elections. The Save Democracy Act, which would create nationwide voting restrictions, was introduced Thursday by Rick Scott of Florida, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming — ...
