Milledgeville

Fire damaged a Sterling apartment building Tuesday night, causing three people to suffer smoke inhalation symptoms and two cats to be resuscitated.

“The Nutcracker” will be performed at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, at Centennial Auditorium, Sterling High School.

Wednesday morning's fire damage was limited to Country Inn and Suites' room 102, with water damage reaching the hallway.

Amboy, Fulton and Milledgeville volleyball all picked up wins in Monday's Sauk Valley roundup.

Dixon looks to keep things rolling at Rock Falls, Newman plays at 2-0 E-P, Sterling hosts United Township to open Western Big 6 Conference play, plus more matchups to watch in Week 3's Sauk Valley football slate.

Firefighters were called to a machine shed fire Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at 7015 W. Judson Road, southeast of Polo. Several fire departments assisted the Polo Fire Department on the call. There were no injuries.

4-H and FFA members will sell rabbits, steers, hogs, goats, poultry and dairy baskets.

Fire at 1501 First Ave. was contained in the attic.

A total of 257 full- and part-time Sauk Valley Community College students have been named to the president’s list for the spring semester. Another 137 students made the dean’s list.

Kirkwood Community College graduates announced for spring 2024

Seventeen Bulldogs athletes will compete in track and field, referred to as athletics by Summer Games organizers, and in soccer skills.

Tim Schurman, superintendent of the Chadwick-Milledgeville School District, has been named the 2024 Superintendent of Distinction by his colleagues in the Northwest Region of the Illinois Association of School Administrators.

Melissa Schultz, Haunted Haven’s owner, says she and her husband, Joseph Norton, discovered the fire. They had gone to the Haunted Haven barn Monday to pick up some tools and a lawn mower when they noticed smoke coming from the second floor.

A tornado warning is in effect for Whiteside, Carroll, Jo Daviess and Stephenson counties until 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The Rock Falls and Sterling fire departments and CGH EMS were dispatched at 1:14 p.m. Monday to a structure fire at the Haunted Haven Barn, 29038 Grennan Road.

The trade show was held Wednesday and Thursday nights, with 31 student-run businesses selling everything from jewelry and video promotions to made-to-order grilled cheese sandwiches.

Sunny skies greeted the crowd at the Hazelhurst Spring Consignment Auction on Saturday, April 6, 2024. A couple thousand potential buyers – and some onlookers – gathered at the 30-acre sale site between Polo and Milledgeville all day to bid on farm machinery and a lot of other “odds and ends”. Mother Nature provided the sunshine and hundreds of items for sale drew the crowd as area farmers came to sell and buy.

Performances are 7:30 p.m. April 5; 7:30 p.m. April 6; and 2:30 p.m. April 7 in the Chadwick School Gym, 19 School St. in Chadwick.

Each school district within the Bi-County Special Education Cooperative area will conduct screenings of preschoolers on various dates from February to May 2024.

No one injured in fire that broke out Sunday morning at 507 15th Ave., Sterling.

A new steakhouse is coming to Sterling, and a package craft beer joint is opening a full-service tap.

Proceeds from this year’s event to benefit Forreston High School student who is battling leukemia

The man who drove drunk and killed a Sterling woman more than six years ago was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison.

The man who drove drunk and killed a Sterling woman more than six years ago is set to be sentenced Monday – unless his request to reschedule a fourth time because of ongoing medical treatment is granted.

Eight local communities have received loans, and loan forgiveness, for water infrastructure improvements.

Kids activities during the day and then the ever-popular demolition derby at 7 p.m.

Carnival rides start at 3 p.m. and a live concert is at 7:30 p.m..

Carnival runs from 4-10 p.m.

Family fun with a carnival and Badger State Tractor Pull

Tuesday, Aug. 8: Illini State Truck Pull, 6:30 p.m. (free grandstand)

Carnival, demolition derby all part of the week's events

Juan Antonio “Tony” Anaya is presumed to have died, City Manager Scott Shumard said in an update sent about 3 p.m.

It’s not yet known if the building destroyed by fire early Friday had smoke alarms, and there is no indication that an explosion preceded the blaze, Sterling City Manager Scott Shumard said in an email Sunday.

Two people were still missing Friday night after a fire destroyed a downtown apartment building earlier in the day.

Wednesday’s sentencing of a former Milledgeville man who drove drunk and killed a woman nearly six years is delayed a third time.

Madison Wescott of Rock Falls has found a way to pay for college with a twist – a twist of lemon, that is.

Milledgeville’s downtown area was filled with antique cars, tractors and even snowmobiles during the town’s sixth annual Jamboree on June 4.

The sentencing hearing for a former Milledgeville man who drove drunk and killed a woman nearly six years ago has been delayed for a second time.

Sunday's warm and sunny weather prompted Sauk Valley residents to venture outside to enjoy their favorite activity. Some tried to catch fish from Lake Carlton at Morrison-Rockwood State Park while others strolled past vintage cars and tractors in Milledgeville.

Two motorcyclists, one from Dixon, died Sunday night in a collision with a car, the State Police said Tuesday.

Special meeting was held Monday, May 22.

The Butcher Shop in Sterling is expanding into a bigger store, and offering more kinds of food.

A Milledgeville sex offender was sentenced in Lee County Court to four years on meth and child pornography charges, a term that was bumped up to 14 years because of recent Carroll County convictions.

Tri-County Gun Club of Polo held its annual open house Saturday on Sunday at 3319 Brookville Road.

Admission to the musical is $10.

Several cases involving murder and attempted murder, as well as a DUI-related death, came to a resolution last year in Lee and Whiteside counties.

Douglas Strehlow, whose BAC was nearly three times the legal limit when he hit a car in August 2017, causing the death of the driver three days later, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Whiteside County Court.

An 89-year-old Chadwick man was killed and another driver injured Thursday in a collision about five miles south of Mount Carroll.

Jeramie M. House, whose attempted murder trial is set to begin Oct. 31, was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated battery. Investigators said he punched a jail worker in the head or face, knocking him to the ground.

As the trial of a Morrison man accused of shooting two people in 2019 nears, two women who investigators say were his accomplices now also are charged with attempted murder.