The print age is still alive. But, new technology rarely eludes staff at Morton Public Library.

Is it challenging for staff at the library?

“Oh, yes!” laughed director Janice Sherman. “I think, secretly, they must love it, because they stick around.”

“Oh, no. You took my rook,” junior Joe Zeller sarcastically remarked as he practiced with junior Seth Ruder Thursday.

The Morton High School library turns to a room of laughter and trash talk when the chess team files in for practice.

It has been four years since a chess team existed at the high school. But, with a new one in place, team members say it just seems like a natural fit.

Morton High School has been awarded the Red Quill Award for 2009-2010 by ACT’s Midwest Regional Office. The award was established in 2006 to recognize schools in the Midwest that are taking an innovative approach to improve their curriculum and have shown consistent growth in student ACT scores over time ...

The core committee studying District 709's long-term facility plan has narrowed its options that will make their way onto a survey ... both involve the closing of Jefferson School.

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Morton High School principal Dennis Johnson sees a silver lining to last week’s arrest of three students for possession of marijuana.

After a canine search at the high school that resulted in two arrests, along with the arrest of another individual following a tip from a fellow student, curiosity arose from several parents wondering if there is an increasing problem with drugs at the high school.

Members of a District 709 core committee spent several hours Thursday night considering the planning process for the future of the district’s educational facilities.

Just weeks after Morton High School walked away with a first-place win for its marching band, the school has another reason to celebrate ...

The Morton High School marching band’s fifth Class 2A championship at Illinois State University Oct. 24 only solidified the band’s standing as one of the more successful organizations in Central Illinois ...

With a chilly mist of rain falling and temperatures dipping in the 40s Friday afternoon, Morton parents lined up with their children to receive the H1N1 vaccination at Grundy Elementary.

Two students from Morton School District 709 are being tested for possibly having the H1N1 flu virus.

After Type-A influenza was identified in the two Morton students, District 709 officials are offering suggestions for parents with sick children ...

When the Dobbins family made the decision to host a foreign exchange student this year, they never expected it to be so easy ...

Lucinda (Post) Martin is on a mission to find a former teacher who has influenced her life. Every time she walks into her sunroom decorated with flowers, she remembers a poem which now hangs within its confines.

As Morton District 709 continues the evaluation of its current educational facilities, there are a number of questions on residents’ minds — are those changes necessary or are they desires?

Morton Junior High teacher Melissa Winchell could write a great “What I did over summer vacation” paper. She spent the summer working at Fermilab in Batavia.

If Mortonites think unemployment is high now, it was almost three times higher in 1932.

Though the nation’s economy is nowhere near the level it was during the Great Depression, the similarities and differences sparked the idea among area librarians as a topic for this year’s Local Legacies @ Your Library about the Works Progress Administration.