• How are schools trying to protect students from food allergies?
• Five students who will graduate from the paralegal/legal assistant program at Kankakee Community College learned the value of their degrees.
• Republican State Sen. Shane Cultra clarifies his recent comment about taking tax deductions away from parents with obese children.
• Emergency dispatchers with KANCOMM settle on new contract.
• State Rep. Lisa Dugan (D-Bradley) has joined the Attorney General’s office to host a forum Saturday to assist area homeowners with loan mortgage modification.
• The Kankakee County Finance Committee Thursday approved a three-year $319,000 plan to lease 12 Chevy Tahoe police vehicles for the sheriff’s department.
• The Kankakee County Courthouse will be closed twice this year for a total of 14 days as a cost-cutting move.
• I-West Chamber Singers will perform in the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York this coming Monday.
• The Iroquois County Board revises wind farm regulations, and proponets said it protects the “little guys.”
Only one award Thursday night said “Lifetime Achievement.” But the local Calumet Chapter District of the National Association of Social workers hand out three annual awards.
• Karen Brownfield and Pat Gorecki were back in court Thursday in Kankakee in their fight with the South Suburban Humane Society in Chicago Heights.
• The Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School’s boys water polo team fell to sixth-ranked Homewood-Flossmoor on Thursday.
• The largest fundraising effort in Bishop McNamara Catholic High School’s history is halfway to completion.
• Kankakee County Sheriff’s Police got a one-year federal grant to pay fro new arrestees’ and parolees’ evaulations for mental health problems and substance abuse issues.
• Pam Basu has opened an African American history museum at Lorenzo R. Smith School in Hopkins Park.
• The Big-Little Comedy team presents a murder-mystery April 9 at the Majestic Theatre in Kankakee for a fundraiser for the Sugar Creek Symphny & Song.
• Manteno resident Kathleen Banach, who caused a ruckus in the Kankakee County Courthouse last year, will go on trial in May in Kankakee.
• Sue Luchina, of Kankakee, spoke to lawmakers Monday at the Senior Legislative Forum at the Kankakee Public Library about how she lost her home, job, pension and life savings.
• Matt Halvorson, son of former U.S. Representative Debbie Halvorson, is media director for Lakeshore Entertainment, which just released the film, “The Lincoln Lawyer.”
• A young man was sent to the hospital after a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the stomach Sunday near a park in Ashkum.
• A VA clinic will be in Bourbonnais, said a VA official.
Joseph W. Fox, 91, of Kankakee, died Friday (March 4, 2011) at Riverside Medical Center.
Louise C. Boudreau, 97, formerly of Martinton, died Friday (March 4, 2011) at the Watseka Health Care Center.
Leland E. “Bus” Cowan, 82, of Hoopeston, died at 9:31 a.m. Wednesday (March 2, 2011) at his home.
