Bear sightings continue out of area

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police and Monroe County Sheriff’s Department responded to multiple reports of a large bear seen roaming through rural backyards last Thursday morning between…

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Thursday crash in Waterloo

Emergency personnel responded to a two-vehicle crash with injury shortly before noon Thursday in the 500 block of South Market Street outside of Casa Romero in Waterloo. The vehicles involved…

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Title time for Bulldogs

The Waterloo High School softball team won a Class 3A regional championship Saturday at Mt. Vernon, 4-2.  Maddie Davis went 4-for-4 with three doubles and two RBIs for the Bulldogs…

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Locals receive latest PPP funding

Congress passed and President Joe Biden recently signed the American Rescue Plan Act, providing an additional $7.25 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program, and 53 Monroe County-based entities have taken…

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