Sauk Valley news

The Legion will host an open house Nov. 11.

A Sterling woman has been sentenced to up to six years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to delivering meth.

Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes announced in a news release Monday that he is running for a second term in the upcoming April 2027 election.

Rock Falls-based author Carol Lubbs has donated copies of her book “The Cliff: I Once Was Lost” to the Sterling and Rock Falls libraries.

The Next Picture Show in Dixon is calling on artists to think small and create boldly for “Small But Mighty,” the gallery’s final juried exhibition of 2026.

Registration for the holiday house and business window decorating contests opens in November, with winners to be announced Dec. 22.

Dixon’s Thomas J. Dempsey School students are trading screens for trails through a grant-funded cycling program implemented this fall.

Seven houses participated in the contest this year. This year’s decorations were creative and spooky, and the voting was incredibly close, according to a news release.

Dixon firefighters were called at 7:43 p.m. Sunday to a detached garage fire in the 600 block of High Street.

Full closure of the Ashton Road Bridge carrying traffic over Interstate 88 in Lee County is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Nov. 4, for bridge repair work. Once work is completed at the Ashton Road Bridge, work is scheduled to begin on the nearby Franklin Road Bridge.