Paint the Town online registration is an easy way to sign up and pick your squares to paint. Join us on Saturday, September 17, 2022, for Paint the Town. This year, Morrison’s one-of-a-kind, family, visual arts festival will feature 1750 squares ready for painting by children, families, and artists of […]
Multiple pleasant activities will take place on Sunday, September 18, 2022, on Main Street, Morrison, IL. The following will be inside and outside The Loft on Main, 112 E. Main Street. The gallery will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 […]
River Bend Community Unit School District #2, in Fulton, IL, is working with local manufacturers, to provide employers with viable solutions to manpower shortages. A recent Welding Apprentice student was placed with JT Cullen, a local steel and welding fabrication company. The student is completing his Senior year and is […]
Mayors of Tampico, IL, and Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, have announced that they intend to establish a pairing relationship between their towns, and the respective birthplaces of President Ronald Wilson Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Hilda Thatcher. The City Council of Tampico met on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, to confirm the […]
On Sunday, September 25, 2022, Morrison Historical Society Board of Trustees will host Sean Sandrock, Sterling, IL. He is Tour Guide and Historian at the Ronald Reagan Birthplace and Museum, 111 – 113 S. Main Street, Tampico, IL. Sandrock will discuss an exciting initiative between Tampico and Grantham, England. President […]
Ebenezer Reformed Church, 309 E. Park Street, Morrison, IL, will host its annual community event on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Due to rain, the worship service, Honoring Our First Responders, will be held inside the church. It will begin at 10:30 a.m. Beginning at 11:30, there is free food.
Marketing Director Karla Burn submitted this feature and photo. Resthave Care & Rehabilitation, 408 Maple Avenue, Morrison, IL, was blessed today, [Thursday, September 8, 2022]! We had another wedding to celebrate, this time in our courtyard. Miss Jenna Kuehl (now Mrs. Bennett) wanted to make sure her grandparents would be […]
Dale R. Usterbowski, 79, of Morrison, IL, died Thursday, September 8, 2022, at OSF St. Anthony Hospital in Rockford, IL. Dale was born July 10, 1943, in Chicago, IL, to August and Laura (Kuberski) Usterbowski. He was educated in the Chicago grade schools and graduated from high school in Chicago. […]
Assistant Editor Jerry Lindsey wrote the feature and supplied the photos. The Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department and Mounted Patrol sponsored the 49th Sheriff’s Fishing Derby, on Saturday, September 10, 2022, at Carlton Lake in Morrison, IL. Young fishermen were arriving at 8:00 a.m. for the 8:30 opening of the registration, […]
Assistant Editor Jerry Lindsey submitted the report. The Tuesday, September 6, 2022, Morrison High School Fresh-Soph game against the Kewanee, IL, Boilermakers ended in a two-point loss (14-12.) The game carried many situations that echoed the recent Friday night, September 2, loss to the Varsity Boilermakers (16-14.) The opening quarter […]
Janette H. Bush, 70, of Prophetstown, IL, died Monday, September 5, 2022, at Rock River Hospice and Home in Sterling, IL. Janette was born July 21, 1952, in Morrison, IL, to Chester Lee and H. Elizabeth (Wohrley) Ballard. She was educated in the Erie Grade Schools and was a 1970 […]
The following Arrests were made and Citations issued since Friday, September 2, 2022. Arrests: No arrests to report. The following Citations were issued. Date Name Age Address Violation Cited 9-02-2022 Craig A. Kaufman 60 Fulton, IL Disobeyed Stop Sign 9-02-2022 […]
Karen M. Cochran, 61, of Morrison, IL, died on Saturday, September 3, 2022, at Generations at Neighbors of Byron. She was born on March 4, 1961, in Sterling, IL, the daughter of James and Mary (Gerbrick) Rippy. She married Tim Cochran on August 28, 1978. Karen loved her family, Mickey […]
Morrison Garden Club member Sharon Moore submitted the press release and photo. Just over a year ago, in 2021, Morrison Garden Club was able to provide funds for the plantings of the Island Garden, at the front entrance of Morrison Community Hospital, 303 N. Jackson Street, Morrison, IL. We could […]
Join Sterling Rock Falls Historical Society on Sunday, September 11, 2022, at 2:00 p.m., for what promises to be an interesting program, at the Lincoln Learning Center, 611 E. 3rd Street, Sterling, IL. Based and the biography Gen. John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man, the presentation focuses on the relationship […]