La Salle workers will dig up and replace aging water mains starting shortly before next Christmas and hopefully finish in spring 2027.

La Salle-Peru beat Midland 36-34, plus more results in Monday's NewsTribune roundup.

Camryn Driscoll remembered losing to Hall in overtime on a last-second shot last year and didn’t want it to happen again. The Tigresses scored the last six points of the game, including two key free throws by Driscoll for the decisive points in a 41-39 Princeton victory.

Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland's Emma Palaschak scored 37 points, including the 1,000th of her career, in the Falcons' victory over Putnam County on Monday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The University of Illinois Extension will present a program on the state’s Centennial Soil Archive Project from 6 to 7 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Putnam County Library’s Granville branch.

The Streator City Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting scheduled for Jan. 7 has been canceled.

OSF HealthCare has announced the addition of cancer specialist Muzamil Arshad, MD, to its radiation oncology team at Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Ottawa.

Horizon House in Peru has surpassed its $75,000 Tree of Hope campaign goal, raising $78,245 as of Dec. 30.

Maze Lumber has announced a leadership change as it enters its 178th year of operations, the company said in a news release.

A look at the top basketball performers in the NewsTribune area for the holiday tournaments.