Despite record crowds during last year’s Morton Pumpkin Festival, chamber officials are seeking an even larger number of guests — from other communities.
Through billboards, Facebook ads and radio spots, Morton Chamber of Commerce officials hope to garner additional visitors to this year’s Pumpkin Festival.
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.
Two area gas station owners could face up to five years in prison for allegedly withholding thousands in sales tax from the state of Illinois.
Abdelmomen Abdallah, 33, of Peoria and Dineshbhai Patel, 57, Morton, both face 16 counts of sales tax fraud. A $10,000 arrest warrant was issued for Abdallah last week while Patel was arrested Thursday, just hours after a news conference in Chicago, where Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the result of the operation.
It’s almost fall and football season is here.
TimesNewspapers is looking for the cutest little Potter fan (ages infant to 6 years old).
Ron Hale, Tazewell County Resource Center president and CEO for the past 14 years, announced his retirement to the agency’s board of directors during a July 19 meeting.
His last day directing the agency will be April 30, 2011.
The Morton Police Department announced its upcoming late-night patrol efforts for the period leading up to Labor Day weekend.
BridgeWay Community Church of Morton is sponsoring a Concert and Family Festival at Idlewood Park in Morton from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 5. The festival, called “Party in the Park,” will feature a worship celebration at 11 a.m. followed by free BBQ, giant inflatable games for the kids, face-painting and balloon magic.
All parents of the Morton School District are invited to attend “Meet the Teacher” activities at Morton High School beginning at 6:25 p.m. Monday.
Beginning in October, the pages of the Morton Times-News will be just a little narrower.
In the Tazewell County Department of Assessments and Board of Review office, Gary Twist fills the role of Freedom of Information Act officer. It is a role created by the state’s new Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect Jan. 1. Twist, however, is not in compliance with the law.
When asked, Twist admitted he had not completed the state required training on the new Freedom of Information Act and did not have the materials required to be available in plain sight under the act.
But, Twist was not alone.
The state’s schedule for major repairs on one of the village’s busiest streets — and a new version of traffic signals for left turns on state highways — will test local motorists’ patience and skills possibly into next spring.
When the former Foster and Gallagher business in Peoria shut down, the facility offered so much to the former Roeckers Cabinet Inc. business — based in Morton since 1951 — that the owners could not resist.
It may not be until the third week of September that Nestlé-Libby’s canned pumpkin hits store shelves again. In fact, there are only six remaining in the entire office at one of Nestlé’s corporate offices in Ohio.
Entry forms are now available for the 2010 McDonald’s Open Tennis Tournament, which will be the weekend before the festival on Sept. 10-12.
The Morton Chamber of Commerce will award cash prizes for the best-decorated windows on display during the Morton Pumpkin Festival. The chamber is seeking participants in the following divisions: adults, organizations and K-6 classrooms to participate in the Midwest Hearing Center’s Window Display event held in downtown Morton.
