RANTOUL — A car show will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at Villas of Holly Brook, Rantoul.
PAXTON — Tri-County Players will present “I Wish ... A Fairy’s Fairy Tale” by Mike Steele at the Paxton Market Street Theatre.
URBANA — A Rantoul man who allegedly had heroin in his home that he intended to sell has been criminally charged.
FISHER — Fisher school Superintendent Barb Thompson relied on county board assurance that this year’s much-later tax distribution to schools will “not be the new normal.” So as she prepared the fiscal year 2020 budget she included an advance tax payment next June as income for the year.
RANTOUL — Rantoul Rotary Club last week made a donation if $6,450 to the Esther’s Well project spearheaded by former Rantoul Township High School ag teacher Carl Burkybile.
RANTOUL — Jesus is the Way Prison Ministry, a local outreach that ministers to the incarcerated, ex-offenders and their family members, will host its annual fundraiser Friday, Aug. 23, at the Laborers International Union North American Local 703, 108 E. Anthony Drive, Urbana.
RANTOUL — ‘Staffulty’ (staff and faculty) at Rantoul township High School have committed to empowering students as the school year begins.
CRESCENT CITY — Rod Grimsley decided he wasn’t ready to fully retire after all.
RANTOUL — Presentations to the Rantoul City Schools board were the main focus at last Thursday’s monthly meeting.
POTOMAC — David Judy of Potomac recently provided information regarding the Mary A. Judy Industrial School for Girls, which was founded by Ambrose Judy, a relative of David’s three generations back.
ROYAL — The Prairieview-Ogden school board last week approved a FY20 tentative budget that is $178,018 in the black.
PENFIELD — St. Lawrence Church will hold its 79th annual homecoming chicken fry-fall festival Sunday, Sept. 1.
RANTOUL — The summer of 1919 was filled with uncertainty for the people of Champaign County who in just two years had become big fans of Chanute Field and the pioneer aviators who flew there.
RANTOUL — A blood drive organized by a Rantoul Township High School student will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at Rantoul Church of the Nazarene, 603 E. Grove Ave.
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RANTOUL — Every two years, Rantoul is home to a second city as tens of thousands of people descend on the community for the Half Century of Progress farm show at Rantoul Aviation Center.
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RANTOUL — A resident’s concerns about the condition of the landscaping around Hap Parker Family Aquatic Center are valid, Village Administrator Scott Eisenhauer said, and are likely to be addressed as improvements are made next year.
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RANTOUL — At least one area resident was not happy with the village’s clearing of trees, brush and natural habitat, including beaver dams, in the area bordering Rantoul’s Heritage Lake. Village officials, however, said the work was necessary.
FISHER — With three board members absent, the Fisher Village Board voted 3-0 to amend its liquor ordinance to allow for a pour-only liquor license Monday night.
URBANA — A Rantoul man was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison after admitting he had drugs in his home for sale.
RANTOUL — Jesus is the Way Prison Ministry, a local outreach that ministers to the incarcerated, ex-offenders and their family members, will host its annual fundraiser Friday, Aug. 23, at the Laborers International Union North American Local 703, 108 E. Anthony Drive, Urbana.
SPRINGFIELD — A Rantoul man will take part in a Land of Lincoln Honor Flight trip of U.S. military veterans to Washington, D.C., on Aug. 20.
RANTOUL — Police were notified in Rantoul this week of three scam calls that had been received by area residents.
RANTOUL — Rantoul Township High School students will receive a welcome to school next Monday, Aug. 19.
FISHER — The Fisher Village Board adjourned its regular meeting to Aug. 19 to vote whether to amend its liquor ordinance to allow for a pour-only license.
RANTOUL — Complaints about the condition of a neighbor’s house and the grounds at Hap Parker Family Aquatic Center were expressed at last week’s Rantoul Village Board study session.
THOMASBORO — The Thomasboro Village Board will hold preliminary discussions about the annexation of and utility extension ot a parcel of land on the east side of U.S. 45.
AKRON, Ind. — Richard Norman will point his Farmall 560 diesel southwest toward Rantoul next week and drive the approximately 170 miles to Rantoul’s mammoth Half Century of Progress farm show in one day.
URBANA — A Rantoul woman who admitted driving while drunk, resulting in a collision with a train that injured her and her son, has been sentenced to 30 months of probation and 180 days in jail.
RANTOUL — When Rantoul resident Wednesday Medlen heard the speaker at the CUNA Management School graduation ceremony in Madison, Wis., give the biography for the winner of the Al Jordan Leadership and Service Award there was a big clue its was going to be her.
There will be a cake walk at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at Gifford State Bank parking lot, sponsored by the Potomac Public Library.
URBANA — A felony firearms case filed against a former Ludlow village trustee was continued until Sept. 3 last week in Champaign County Circuit Court.
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LUDLOW — The demise of one of Ludlow’s churches could provide a benefit for Ludlow residents.
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RANTOUL — A trail would be developed, a shelter replaced and a boat ramp/canoe launch area would be created under a plan to upgrade Rantoul’s Heritage Lake park facility.
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RANTOUL — A Rantoul Township High School senior remains at Carle Hospital, Urbana, awaiting transfer for treatment in Chicago after a single-vehicle wreck last month left him partially paralyzed.
URBANA — A Rantoul woman who admitted driving while drunk, resulting in a collision with a train that injured her and her son, has been sentenced to 30 months of probation and 180 days in jail.
RANTOUL — A man wanted in Texas for aggravated kidnapping was arrested in Rantoul on Friday for alleged weapons violations.
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RANTOUL — Former Rantoul Township High School board member Jeremy Larson has been selected to again serve on the board.
GIFFORD — The Gifford Grade School class of 1969 recently reunited on the 50th anniversary of its graduation.
RANTOUL — St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Gifford will sponsor a food distribution Saturday, Aug. 17, at Community Service Center, 520 E. Wabash Ave., Rantoul.
WICHITA, Kan. — Rantoul Police Department Chaplain Mark Wilkerson attended the International Conference of Police Chaplains annual training seminar July 22-26 in Wichita.
URBANA — A civil suit filed by a former member of the Ludlow Village Board against the village of Ludlow, Board President Steve Thomas and several other parties has been thrown out of U.S. District Court.
RANTOUL — The village board will be talking marijuana in a month. Or at least the public will.
RANTOUL — It beat out places such as Machu Picchu, the Egyptian tourist sites and Mardi Gras.
A successful kidney transplant is supposed to bring a better life to the recipient. But in the case of Janson Campbell and his mother, Julie — who last month donated a kidney to help her son — the benefits are twofold.
POTOMAC — Forty-two children “screamed for ice cream” at a recent Potomac Public Library event.
RANTOUL — Rantoul Township High School class of 1954 will hold its 65-year class reunion at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, at Linden Banquet Center.
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RANTOUL — Rick Judge pointed a temperature gauge at the surface of the Wabash Park courts next to J.W. Eater Junior High School.
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RANTOUL — As recently as three years ago, The Rev. Matt Bahnfleth wouldn’t have dared do something as strenuous as mountain climbing.
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A 'growing concern': One call to IDOT relieves Thomasboro worries about tall grass obscuring traffic
THOMASBORO — Concerns in Thomasboro about reduced visibility along U.S. 45 due to overgrown vegetation in the median and near intersections have been addressed by the Illinois Department of Transportation, village Trustee Tony Grilo said.
RANTOUL — Rantoul police arrested a 17-year-old male Friday afternoon for aggravated battery and armed robbery.
GIFFORD — A Mount Vernon resident was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries following a single-vehicle wreck near Gifford Thursday morning.
