Day: June 23, 2021

Princeville’s festival back minus beer tent By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post PRINCEVILLE – While the beer tent is gone for another year, most activities that have made Heritage Days a popular event in Princeville are back this weekend after a one-year, pandemic-related hiatus. Getting to this point was not always certain, though, according to Beth Duttlinger, president of the Princeville Civic Association, which organizes the festival. “Some of this was like a wing and a prayer when we were doing the planning, because we weren’t sure how much would be open,” Duttlinger said. “So we’re very fortunate the state…

Board says it is watching budget By JOHN A. BALLENTINE For The Prairie News WYOMING – Four Stark County residents voiced concerns about a school renovation project during the public comment portion of Monday’s meeting of the Stark County Board of Education. The speakers told board members that the school renovation project should be put on hold, asked them to reconsider building a new school and expressed concerns about higher tax rates. Local farmer Doug Milby said in his statements that he “didn’t attend some of the other information meetings” because “I was gone, I wasn’t here.” Milby, in addressing…

Incidents & Accidents Stark County 6-14 – A rural Toulon resident reported an unoccupied wrecked vehicle located just south of 1100N and 200E. A note located on the extensively damaged van stated that the occupant(s) had sought to get help. Authorities had the vehicle towed and impounded. The incident remains under investigation. 6-14 – Blayze N. Ryder, 18, Neponset, was ticketed for disobeying a no passing zone. In a preliminary report, a ticket was issued in conjunction with a two-vehicle accident that occurred at Route 78 and Duncan Road. The accident remains under investigation through the Stark County Sheriff’s Office….

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Elmwood man dies in one-vehicle collision ELMWOOD – A “medical event” may have been the cause of an Elmwood resident’s pickup truck leaving the road at the T-intersection of Graham Chapel and Dogtown Roads in Elmwood. The vehicle then hit the guide wire of a power line pole sometime before 5:45 a.m. on June 21, according to a Peoria County Sheriff’s report. The wire then pulled the pole down on the truck. Kenneth J. Musgrave, 55, of Elmwood, was pronounced dead…