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.
Mortonite Troy Ummel knows that opening a business in this type of economic climate is a challenge.
“We opened up in a horrible recession,” Ummel said.
But, with the right ingredients and the proper atmosphere, Ummel said it was worth a shot. When he opened his newest Peoria restaurant, dubbed Connected, there was doubt among his peers.
“Unique, hard-to-find gifts that are one of a kind.”
That is how Joan Sauder, owner of one of Morton’s newest businesses, describes the items that can be found in her shop.
Vern Reynolds held on to the door of the Elmwood movie theater he has owned for 31 years and watched out its window as an F2 tornado ripped through the town June 5, leaving many historic buildings in shambles.
“I held the door as long as I could,” said Reynolds, owner of the Palace Theatre, built in 1913.
Morton is near completing the legal work that would allow high-speed internet, cable and telephone service provider iTV-3 to install its fiber-optic network in various parts of Morton.
The Morton Economic Development Council released a survey Friday asking Mortonites to name the downtown district. Residents can vote online for their favorite name or suggest others.
Shop local.
It is a simple concept that makes a big impact. However, in tough economic times, local businesses take a hit and are often forced to close their doors permanently. This has been the case for some area businesses, leaving empty storefronts in a once thriving downtown Morton.
Imagine a world without bees. No pesky buzzing, no swatting, no hoping not to be stung. Now imagine a world without apples, oranges, peaches ... pumpkins. These fruits are among the foods that bees are responsible for directly pollinating.
It is a sigh of relief for employees at the Best Western Ashland House and Morton Rotarians.
After about 65 Rotarians reported feeling flu-like symptoms May 8 following a weekly luncheon at the Best Western Ashland House in Morton, an investigation by the Tazewell County Health Department was finalized and details were released Thursday.
The 26th annual Community Prayer Breakfast is from 6:30 to 8 a.m. May 12 at the Ashland House in Morton.
The featured speaker will be Amy McClellan Jones, a lifetime resident of Morton. Jones will talk through her journey with childhood cancer being diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the age of 10, relapsing at 15 and has been cancer free since 1993.
