Mortonite Troy Ummel’s business has a new attraction, which he calls, “unique, rare and maybe a little flamboyant.”
Patrons of his Peoria restaurant, Connected, can now relax by the establishment’s nearly 22-foot indoor waterfall.
The building at 104 W. Jefferson St. has gone through many changes, and layers of history have been uncovered.
Owner Harriet McClellan knows some tidbits about the buildings past, which has been in her family since the early 1900s.
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Morton Community Bank and Alison and Doug Robinson, co-travel directors and Goldens hosts, will host an informational meeting on one of their upcoming trips — ‘The Islands of New England.’ The trip will run from July 22 to 29.
“We have made significant progress on 32 of 46 action items,” Morton Economic Development Council executive director and CEO Jennifer Daly touted Sept. 7 during a village board meeting at Freedom Hall.
To backup her statements in support of the MEDC, Daly invited several business owners who have or are still working with the MEDC to better their business.
Comcast customers looking to drop off a payment or cable equipment will have to drive to Pekin or Peoria from now on — the Morton office is closed.
And, the cable company’s decision has a number of village officials wired over the closure, largely due to the village’s franchise agreement with Comcast that required the company to keep an office in Morton.
The man who is believed to have been Morton’s first practicing attorney has been named as the 44th Morton Pumpkin Festival Parade Marshal.
Ramon “Ray” Mason said he was “utterly shattered” when he was presented a plaque and told about the honor Thursday at a meeting of the Morton Rotary Club.
When Rocke’s Meating Haus announced it was closing its retail shop in June 2008, a slew of groans and rumors began to spread.
Whether it was the loss of a tradition or the subtraction of a retail presence in downtown Morton, residents were not happy about losing one of its favorite specialty meat shops.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two Néstlé-Libby’s employees remain hospitalized this week following a Friday morning fire that broke out at the pumpkin-canning plant in Morton.
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The village's retail sales tax increase is now in effect. Businesses are already adjusting their prices.
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Debbie Neumann, store manager of The Kroger Co.’s central division store in Morton has been honored by leading industry publication Progressive Grocer as a “Top Woman in the Grocery Industry” for 2010 in the store manager category. Neumann manages one of the division’s top-performing stores in one of the Midwest’s most competitive local grocery markets.
