Performing Arts Guild Presents
December 9 & 10 at 7:00 p.m., and December 11 at 2:00 p.m. Order online at www.performingartsguild.com, click on tickets
Ticket Prices Include Dessert General Admission: $16.00....Students: $14.00 For Information and/or Tickets, call 815.734.2103 Reservations are recommended Pinecrest Grove Community Center South McKendrie & Evergreen Mount Morris, Illinois 61054
POLO TRI-COUNTY PRESS Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.
VOLUME 164 NO. 38 • SERVING THE POLO AREA SINCE 1857
NEWS
Friday, December 2, 2022 • $1.00
STREET WORK
Staff Moves
Oregon’s superintendent of schools to retire in 2024. / 5
NEWS
Man Charged
An Ohio man is charged with trying to run over an Ogle deputy. / 5
Sports Lena-Winslow wins the 1A
state championship; Ogle teams hit the hardcourt and mats. / 11-14
Alexa Zoellner/Shaw Media
Construction crews from Martin & Co., of Oregon, work on the $3.3 million Colden Street Project at the corner of West Mason Street and South Congress Avenue in Polo on Nov. 21. The Colden Street Project encompasses about 10.5 blocks and is meant to help alleviate water buildup on Illinois Route 26 during torrential rain events. This year’s portion of work concluded this week; more will be done in 2023. Story on page 7.
One section • 20 pages
INDEX Betty’s Column ........ 6 Classifieds ........ 18-20 Colbert Column ......13
Library News ............ 2 Otto’s Column .......... 6 Police Reports.........15
Property Transfers..16 Sheriff Activity........17 Sports..................11-14
DEATHS Published every Friday by Ogle County Newspapers, a division of Shaw Media
Robert M. Smith, Eldon Stukenberg, Virginia Lee “Ginny” Thorn, Page 10