Grundy County

The Grundy Area FFA chapter through the Grundy Area Vocational Center celebrated FFA Week at Coal City High School Thursday morning, where students got to compete in events like the bale toss and business teacher Alicia Matusiak got to kiss a horse.

Morris Community High School's school nurse, Tracy Steffes, has won an Illinois State Board of Education Award of Special Recognition through the "Those Who Excel" program for her effort and service at the school.

The Morris Police Department announced Thursday that officers were called to a fight in the 200 block of Waverly Street, where witnesses said an 18-year-old woman had been stabbed.

A 44-year-old Morris man is being charged with three counts of first degree murder in the death of his mother in August 2024.

Minooka Community High School District 111 is joining the Illinois State Board of Education in the 12th statewide survey of school climate and learning conditions.

The Arukah Institute of Healing, Inc. has been awarded $3.6 million as part of Gov. JB Pritzker’s $200 million statewide initiative to expand innovative healthcare services for underserved populations.

Firefighters contained a fire Monday to the crawl space area and a single bedroom of a single-family home on the 300 block of South Market Street in Seneca.

A Channahon man died following on a crash over the weekend on Interstate 55 in Channahon Township.

The Grundy County Historical Society and Museum will be traveling to schools with Abraham Lincoln impersonator Randy Duncan for four programs with third grade students.

The Grundy County and Channahon Minooka Chamber ended 2024 strong financially, in membership and with programming, and 2025 is already hitting the ground running.

The new $2.18 million elevator under construction at Morris Community High School is now up and running, making the school more accessible to those in wheelchairs and on crutches.

Minooka Community High School is accepting nominations for its third annual Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony, celebrating decades of athletic competition.

The Diocese of Joliet released the third and final phase of its “targeted restructuring” plan on Thursday, detailing the plans for parishes in DuPage, Grundy, Kankakee and southern Will counties.

Minooka Community High School senior Rachel Timm, daughter of Chris and Lisa Timm of Channahon, has been named the Channahon-Minooka Rotary Club Student of the Month for February.

With the TRUST Act in place statewide, non-sanctuary resolutions in Grundy County and throughout the state have little legal power, even in the wake of Trump’s changes to federal immigration policy

The Morris Community High School Board approved the sale of $1.7 million in working cash bonds Monday night, which sold at a 4.96 interest rate, slightly lower than last year's 5.36% interest rate.

Most of northern Illinois is under a winter weather advisory for Wednesday, while areas near Sterling and Princeton will be under a winter storm warning.

Parts of northern Illinois could see 6 or more inches of snow Wednesday, the National Weather Service advised Monday as it issued a winter storm watch for areas across central, north-central and northeast Illinois, as well as parts of northwest Indiana.

Superintendent Chris Spencer told the Coal City Unit 1 School Board Wednesday that from the feedback and conversations stemming from town hall meetings, the district will spend $196,679 repairing the north gymnasium at City Intermediate School.

Parts of northern Illinois could see 6 or more inches of snow Wednesday, the National Weather Service advised Monday as it issued a winter storm watch for areas across central, north-central and northeast Illinois, as well as parts of northwest Indiana.

United Way of Grundy County makes plans to strengthen community services, and also highlights the availability of a pharmaceutical discount program open to everyone.

The IHSA postseason schedules for girls basketball teams across the greater Ottawa/Streator/Morris area.

The City of Morris filed an objection through a resolution Monday night, asking the Grundy County Board to not issue a special use permit for a solar farm at Ashton and Gore Roads on the city's west side.

An intrepid professor and a trio of students have been chasing evidence of a rare and elusive dragonfly through the remarkable habitat at Joliet Junior College.

Seven Minooka Community High School students taking classes at the Grundy Area Vocational Center were presented with Director Awards for their outstanding performances in class.

Thomas J. Dohm, president and chief executive officer of Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers in Morris, has been elected to the Board of Trustees for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association.

The Minooka Community High School Board voted to approve the sale of $52 million in working cash bonds to move forward with the construction of a new Career and Technical Education Center and field house.

State Sen. Chris Balkema, R-Channahon, is starting his first year in the Illinois Senate and has been appointed to committees.

Morris Community High School showed its work Saturday during an open house, where it displayed designs and shared costs for a $67 million addition and renovation to the high school.

A Joliet man who resides in the northeast part of the city was arrested after officers found 11 stolen vehicles, a stolen trailer, and a stolen tractor on his property, police said.

Morris Community High School is hosting an open house from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 for the community to learn more about the $67 million referendum that will be on the Tuesday, April 1 Consolidated Election ballot.

Morris Elementary District 54 is in search of a new superintendent to start in July after the departure of Superintendent Shannon Dudek, who leaves for Wood Dale District 7 Tuesday, July 1.

Sarah Oprzedek, president and chief executive officer of United Way of Will County, said "news of the federal funding freeze caught many organizations by surprise."

Led by Matt Williamson, Streator put a sudden, thudding end to Coal City’s hopes of finishing Tuesday night tied with Streator atop the ICE standings, pulling away in the third quarter for a 55-30 victory.

The Morris Community High School Education Foundation is hosting a Casino Night at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the VFW, 309 McKinley St., Morris.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police have a valuable tool for winter rescues on the icy Illinois, Fox and Vermilion rivers.

The Morris Community High School Education Foundation inducted six new members into its Hall of Distinction before the varsity boys' basketball game vs. LaSalle-Peru on Friday.

Anitra Brase recently acquired Advantage Realty in Morris from longtime owners Joan Eslinger and Jack Hynds, with Eslinger quick to add she is not retiring from the firm she and Hynds founded in 1992.

25 members of the Morris Community High School Class of 2025 have been named Illinois State Scholars.

Six Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees candidates are running for the April 1 election and two of them have pending lawsuits against the college that challenge censure and appointment votes. 

Three eighth grade basketball players at Nettle Creek Elementary got to play their final home game to a packed crowd full of former players, coaches, and Nettle Creek alumni.

The Illinois State Police is investigating that occurred at 12:41 a.m. Monday on Interstate 80 westbound near Minooka Road after a semi hit a car that was traveling in the wrong direction on the one-way road.

The Morris Community High School Education Foundation will be inducting six new people into the Hall of Distinction at around 6:30 p.m. this Friday before the start of the varsity basketball game.

Morris native Aindrea Hogan will begin her new role as vice president of development with the Grundy Economic Development Council on Wednesday.

Nettle Creek School at 8820 Scott School Rd., Morris, is hosting a night honoring its basketball-playing alumni at around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22.

Six Minooka Community High School students taking classes at the Grundy Area Vocational Center were presented with Director Awards for their outstanding performances in class.

An appellate court upheld the pretrial detention of a former Joliet Outlaws motorcycle club member who for a second time is facing charges of killing a woman and hiding her body.

Funeral services will be held Monday for the former Morris fire chief Bob Coleman who died at the age of 86 on Wednesday. Coleman served with the fire department from more than 50 years.

Here is the honor roll for Morris Community High School's first semester of the 2024-2025 school year.

While Coal City Intermediate School students spend this year, the next year and potentially further years learning at Coal City Elementary School instead, the district is left with options for getting them their own school once again.