The Morton volleyball team is armed for another season as one of the best in the area.
Despite playing without a McGlaughlin for the first time since 2000, a strong group of returnees have the Potters positioned to contend for Mid-Illini and Class 3A regional championships.
Under first-year head coach Michelle Hahn, Morton will try for its first league crown since ’06 and its seventh regional plaque in the last eight years.
Are you speeding? Are you talking on your cell phone through construction zones? Are you still in the graduated driver’s licensing program?
If you answered yes to either of these questions, chances are you are in for a visit with a Morton Police Department officer.
Now, and continuing through the remainder of Jackson Street resurfacing, Morton police are planning to step up enforcement, particularly near school and construction zones.
Jefferson School principal Lorna Sherwood wanted to make an early impression on Jefferson students this year. So, she recruited a hot air balloon crew to bring their Sun Gard balloon to the Jefferson School grounds. The idea — get the students thinking of this year’s theme, “Dream Big, Believe Big, Achieve Big.” Tuesday morning the crew filled the hot air balloon in front of students. Students watched Sherwood get in the basket of the hot air balloon as it was lifted up from the west side of the school. The balloon was tethered and returned safely to the ground. School started in Morton District 709 last week.
Although Rob Parn did not end up going to college and majoring in graphic design as he planned, he managed to have a successful career in the trade and recently opened his own Morton-based business.
A recent survey by TimesNewspapers found that Morton was among a list of seven communities in Woodford, Peoria and Tazewell counties not in compliance with the state’s new Freedom of Information Act.
Only four public bodies were in compliance. That is a dismal record. (Click here for full story)
