VOLUME 156 NO. 48 • SERVING THE FORRESTON AREA SINCE 1865
Friday, April 7, 2023 • $1.00
NEWS
AT THE POLLS Welcome to Town!
Mt. Morris welcomes a new telepharmacy to its downtown. / 4
NEWS
Storm Damage A March 31 storm takes down several buildings west of Forreston. / 7
Tuesday Election Stormy weather
caused difficulties that election officials hard to work around. / 4
Alexa Zoellner/Shaw Media
Melvin Schaar, left, and Penny Swift cast their ballots for the consolidated election in the Forreston Township building Tuesday. About 80 people had voted in the precinct as of 3:06 p.m. Unofficial results on page 4.
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INDEX Betty’s Column......... 5 Classifieds......... 18-20 Colbert Column.......14
Library News............. 2 Oregon Police...........17 Otto’s Column........... 5
Property Transfers...16 Sheriff Activity.........16 Sports.................. 13-15
DEATHS Published every Friday by Ogle County Newspapers, a division of Shaw Media
John “Jack” Irvin Birkholz, Virgil “Gene” Eugene Patterson, Dwayne Marshall Zipse, Page 8