POLO TRI-COUNTY PRESS VOLUME 166 NO. 25 • SERVING THE POLO AREA SINCE 1857
Friday, August 30, 2024 • $1.00
r 75th Annual Grand Detou
arts festival
SEPT. 8, 2024 9am to 4pm John Deere Historic Site Grand Detour, IL 2023 Best of Show
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IS LINDA MAGKLAR
NEWS
StrawFest Day a success
COOLING OFF
Straw sculpting competition comes to an end in Mt. Morris / 3
Coming to the TLP stage Timber Lake Playhouse to present “Church Basement Ladies – A Second Helping” on Sept. 6-15 / 10
Earleen Hinton
Bentley Jensen, 11, hits the water first as Braxtyn and Braedyn Jensen, both 9, follow as they all dive Aug. 26 into their mini pool in Polo. The boys were cooling off on a day that saw temperatures rise to the high 90s with heat indexes more than 100 degrees.
One section • 20 pages
INDEX Betty’s Column......... 4 Classifieds.......... 15-18 Colbert Column.......12
Crime and Courts..... 5 Otto’s Column........... 4 Polo Police................. 2
DEATHS Published every Friday by Ogle County Newspapers, a division of Shaw Media
Sarah Louise Wible, Page 6
Property Transfers.... 7 Sheriff Activity.......... 6 Sports...................11-14