The Illinois Valley Senior League baseball team opens the Central Region Tournament at 11:30 a.m. Saturday against Illinois.

Registration is now open for the fifth annual Children’s Business Fair in downtown Ottawa.

The Comer family quickly found they were not alone in their day of despair as the Princeton community, including schools, youth sports organizations and churches, rallied around them offering, clothes, gift cards, meals and most importantly, love.

Illinois Valley Community College is reshaping its Ottawa campus to focus on healthcare degree programs and short-term career training for working adults, leveraging community partnerships to develop new programs for paramedics and EKG technicians.

Heavy rainfall across La Salle County last week — ranging from 2.3 to more than 8 inches in some areas — has waterlogged fields again, forcing farmers to delay wheat harvest and soybean replanting as they wait for conditions to dry.

Illinois American Water has donated $20,000 to the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation’s Streator Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund to support residents and recovery efforts following the June 11 tornado.

This is the third and final installment of the 2026 Bureau County Sports Hall of Fame Class, featuring 33 teams. The Hall of Fame was formed in 1995 as part of the BCR’s Tribute to Sports program. There are now 55 individuals and 56 teams inducted.

The Central Region Tournament is celebrating its 40th anniversary in Peru this summer. “This tournament means so much to so many," said Bo Windy, who helped bring the tournament to the Illinois Valley in 1986.

Princeton High School is destroying cumulative student files for graduates from 2017, 2018, and 2019, but former students have until July 24 to request their records before they’re permanently discarded.

The Morris Hospital and Healthcare Centers board of directors recently named Pete Fleming of Minooka and Jay McCracken of Ottawa as new board members.