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RANTOUL — Rantoul’s Red Wheel East restaurant will close its doors Sunday — about a year after it opened.
URBANA — A Rantoul man who admitted he had Ecstasy in a car that police stopped on Interstate 57 earlier this year has been sentenced to three years of probation.
POTOMAC — Area residents got to watch art in motion as Nate Grice of Paxton and Rob Estes of Paducah, Ky., painted a mural at the butterfly garden in Potomac.
RANTOUL — Belynda Allen, the executive director of Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce for nearly the past two years, has left the post to take a position in Hancock County in western Illinois.
GIFFORD – Unkempt yards was a major topic of discussion at the village of Gifford’s board meeting Thursday night, with the board deciding to first create a list of properties it wanted owners to clean up.
POTOMAC — A new superintendent and a new principal have been hired at Potomac Grade School to succeed Larry Maynard.
RANTOUL — The days of residents being alerted to approaching storms strictly by weather siren, TV or radio are long gone.
RANTOUL — Paul Wolters can thank allergies for his career choice of music rather than following in the footsteps of his father.
ROYAL — The Prairieview-Ogden Board of Education dealt with money matters during its May meeting.
RANTOUL — The Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce Freedom Celebration will once again be held Wednesday, July 3, at the Rantoul Hap Parker Aquatic Center.
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RANTOUL — Bibles, podiums and hymnals will replace shoulder pads, footballs and wrestling equipment at the building that at one time housed the Camp Rantoul locker room.
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LUDLOW — Ludlow Co-Op Elevator Co. won’t be building a new grain bin facility in its namesake community.
RANTOUL — A missing 87-year-old Rantoul woman was found Tuesday morning — 19 hours after she was last seen.
RANTOUL — The four masked individuals who allegedly forced their way into a Rantoul home May 30 have all been apprehended, according to Rantoul police.
URBANA — A Rantoul man is being held at the Champaign County jail in connection with a robbery at an Urbana Burger King restaurant.
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It was all hands on deck at Dennis Riggs’ family farm late last week, when sons Darin and Matthew took the afternoon off work at Riggs Beer Company, which they own, to plant crops and finish a planting season that has gone much later than typical years.
PAXTON — “Wonderland! The Musical,” a screwball adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” will be presented by a group of junior high-age students next month at Market Street Theatre, Paxton.
RANTOUL — Christian Life Church of Rantoul will sponsor a food distribution Saturday, June 22, at the Community Service Center, 520 E. Wabash Ave.
FISHER — Rabbits and hogs don’t usually have much to do with one another, but on Saturday, they will make an exception.
RANTOUL — Brad Gould will serve as grand marshal of the 2019 Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce Freedom Celebration parade Thursday, July 4.
A Thomasboro man will attend a Land of Lincoln Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
RANTOUL — A Danville couple has bought the Rantoul Dairy Queen.
FISHER — The Fisher PIE organization will sponsor the Fisher Grade School summer library program.
POTOMAC — Potomac Public Library will have a storytime lunch from 12-12:30 p.m. every Thursday starting June 13. Bring your sack lunch to the David Judy Park pavilion to eat lunch and listen to a story.
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RANTOUL — Holding one leg of the event at an airport was one item on Crown Rally 8’s to-do list. Mission accomplished.
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RANTOUL — Born with cerebral palsy, which left her right side paralyzed and with one-fourth of the left side of her brain missing, Jade Stone has managed to do a lot more in her young life than many people who are without physical impairments.
RANTOUL — Four people — one armed with a hand gun and one with a bat — allegedly forced their way into a Rantoul residence, threatened an occupant and stole items Thursday evening.
URBANA — A Rankin man accused of entering his employer's home is due back in court next month.
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RURAL DEWEY — Richard Tarvin said he has had the wind turn over a couple of semi trailers, but never before had a tree come down on one.
Hardin and Helen James are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at the No. 10 Church of Christ, 27019 N. 470 East Road, Potomac.
GIFFORD — Chris Rocker is celebrating his 100th birthday with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 1, in the banquet room of the Country Health Nursing Home in Gifford.
RANTOUL — A blood drive is scheduled from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 6, at Rantoul Public Library, 106 W. Flessner Ave.
THOMASBORO — Nobody was injured in a late-afternoon fire at a Thomasboro duplex.
URBANA — A Champaign County judge Wednesday sentenced a Rantoul man to six years in prison for his 15th conviction for driving under revocation.
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RANTOUL — Morton calls itself the “pumpkin capital of the world.” Rantoul might become the pumpkin-launching (or chunkin) capital of the world.
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RANTOUL — Rantoul Park Board will issue $120,000 in bonds to be repaid over four years to build a new multi-use court at Wabash Park.
RANTOUL — Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church will hold vacation Bible school.
Learning how to use QuickBooks Desktop will be the second in the Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce series, “Getting to Know Your Money Well.”
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RANTOUL — The U.S. Army website outlining the Warrant Officer Flight Training School (WOFT) contains the statement, “The road to becoming an U.S. Army pilot won’t be easy.” Don’t tell Grant Jones that. He already knows it. He embraces it.
GIFFORD — The Gifford school board approved the hiring of seven coaches for the 2019-20 school year.
FISHER — The two Fisher school principals complimented long-time district teachers who retire this month.
POTOMAC — Potomac Public Library will be closed from Monday, June 3, through Thursday, June 6.
RANTOUL — Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce has announced its three-film Movies in the Park summer series for 2019.
LUDLOW — An amended budget that is $40,674 in the black was presented to the school board at its May meeting.
FISHER — Members of the service committee of the Fantastic 4-Hers of Fisher club hung fliers at local businesses to promote donating extra garden produce to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank and The Daily Bread Soup Kitchen.
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RANTOUL — The Rantoul City Schools board had a busy meeting Thursday night with presentations given on a number of topics. Among the subjects covered educational programming and facility safety improvements.
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Rachel Klimas was named Rantoul Exchange Club student of the year for the 2018-19 school year. She received a $1,500 check from the club.
URBANA — Rantoul rates will drop 38 or 39 cents per $100, but remain the highest in the county, in the range of $11 per $100 of assessed value.
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RANTOUL — Wednesday night’s storm felled a mammoth sign pole at a filling station, sent trees and large limbs crashing down and left numerous homes without power in Rantoul.
Shanna Hortin is the new facilitator for Prairieland Creating Entrepreneurship Opportunities in the school districts of Fisher, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley and Paxton-Buckley-Loda.
FISHER — Senior honors awarded to the Fisher High School class of 2019 include: