Hope grows when we share it. This season, let’s end the stigma around needing help. Help is here. Together, we end the stigma around accessing food resources. Scan here or visit www.oglecountyil.gov for resources in all four counties.
Action grant funded by the CDC in Lee, Carroll, Whiteside, and Ogle counties.
MT. MORRIS TIMES VOLUME 57 NO. 32 • SERVING THE MT. MORRIS AREA SINCE 1967
Friday, December 12, 2025 • $1.00
NEWS
Cinderella made of snow Oregon businessman Fran Volz sculpts Cinderella after snowstorm / 3 One section • 28 pages
MADRIGAL DINNER FUN Earleen Hinton
The legendary “roast beast” is brought out by Jesters Aralin McLain and Liz Messenger during Oregon High School’s Madrigal Dinner on Dec. 6. The music department offered dinners Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 at the Stronghold Camp & Retreat Center north of Oregon. The theme for this year was “The Unfinished Madrigal Dinners.”
INDEX Betty’s Column................................7 Property Transfers.........................10 Crime and Courts...................5, 6, 8
Classifieds................................22-24 Colbert Column............................ 25 Sports....................................... 25-28
DEATHS Published every Friday by Ogle County Newspapers, a division of Shaw Media
Lila Lee Baker (nee Kirk), Renee Lynn Barnhart, Page 9