Visitation for Dorothy C. Sterrenberg, 94, of Milford, will be from noon Sunday until the 2 p.m. services at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Milford, where she was a member. She died Tuesday (July 29, 2008) at the Gilman Nursing Center.
WASHINGTON (AP) — FDA says salmonella linked to outbreak in irrigation water, serrano pepper at Mexican farm.
Donald R. Sipple Jr., 73, of Steger, and father of area residents, died Friday (July 25, 2008).
Edward H. “Bucky” Marvel, 66, of Momence, died Monday (July 28, 2008).
• The Herscher Village Board moved a step closer to allowing its citizens to legally drive golf carts on village streets at Tuesday’s meeting. If the ordinance is passed next month, Herscher will join Gilman, Piper City, Danforth, Ashkum and Crescent City as area towns that have turned to electric carts to help residents get around for less than driving a car.
• Wide open spaces and easy access to major transportation hubs were among the assets of Kankakee County highlighted during the second Tri-City Trade Commissioner’s Summit Tuesday.
• Drivers who knowingly stop on railroad tracks are risking more than their lives — they’re risking their driver’s license. Drivers who stop on railroad tracks, blocking vehicles, pedestrians and trains will lose their license for one month beginning next year, according to a new law Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed this week.
• Marcella Laskanich’s television will stop working — as is — in mid-February. The Livingston County resident’s TV, with a traditional antenna, will be one of more than half a million throughout Illinois that won’t pick up a digital signal after television stations stop broadcasting in analog. On Feb. 17, 2009, those using TVs without digital tuners or who do not subscribe to cable or satellite services could be tuned out like Laskanich.
• The candidates for the 11th Congressional District have been expanding their campaign staffs in anticipation of the run up to the Nov. 4 general elections.
• A stolen 5-foot-tall bronze statue honoring 48 victims of the 1944 explosion at the Elwood Ordinance Plant has been found stashed in a corncrib south of Braceville, about 15 miles from its original home next to the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery at Elwood.
Jeanne K. Cooper, 78, of Beecher, died Friday (July 25, 2008).
Cecil Glen Pinkston, 73, of Gilman, died Monday (July 28, 2008).
Tonight’s concert at the Perry Farm in Bourbonnais has been canceled due to illness of a band member. This concert will be re-scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken Southern California.
The 11:42 a.m. local time jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas. Preliminary information from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake at magnitude 5.8, centered 29 miles east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills.
Sieglinde A. “Linde” Boggess, 54, of Bourbonnais, died Monday (July 28, 2008).
