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.
POLO TRI-COUNTY PRESS VOLUME 167 NO. 32 • SERVING THE POLO AREA SINCE 1857
Friday, December 12, 2025 • $1.00
NEWS
Cinderella made of snow Oregon businessman Fran Volz sculpts Cinderella after snowstorm / 3 One section • 28 pages
CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL Earleen Hinton
Polo High School students help children decorate Christmas cookies Dec. 6 at the Polo Senior Center during the Christmas Festival. More photos on page 2.
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