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POLO TRI-COUNTY PRESS Action grant funded by the CDC in Lee, Carroll, Whiteside, and Ogle counties.
VOLUME 167 NO. 28 • SERVING THE POLO AREA SINCE 1857
Friday, November 14, 2025 • $1.00
NEWS
Art show in Oregon Eagle’s Nest Art Group’s Candlelight Walk Art Show set for Nov. 29 / 9
SPORTS
Tigers’ record-setter Tim Starwalt becomes fastest distance runner for Byron / 17 One section • 20 pages
MUMFORD ON THE MOVE Earleen Hinton
Polo’s Mercer Mumford battles for yards as St. Anne’s Grant Pomaranski tries to bring him down during I8FA playoff action Nov. 8. Story on page 19.
INDEX Crime and Courts............................5 Betty’s Column............................... 6 Property Transfers.........................10
Classifieds................................. 11-15 Colbert Column.............................18 Sports........................................ 17-20
DEATHS Published every Friday by Ogle County Newspapers, a division of Shaw Media
Janice “Jan” Decker, Jeremy Bryan Hawkins, Peggy O’Rourke, Page 7