Day: May 4, 2022

By JEFF LAMPE For The Weekly Post Bluebells blanket two sides of French Creek in places. Never mind that, in a few weeks, they will be replaced by a sea of stinging nettles. For now, the scene is one of beauty. Similar spring glories abound, with plants of all sorts flowering and tractors turning our fine soil into a crumbly quilt of black and brown. So it goes in spring, a season of hope when many of us fill a primal urge by getting dirty while putting plants in the ground. Mother’s Day is usually a safe time to start…

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Alarm but no robbery at Elmwood Casey’s ELMWOOD – Despite initial appearances, the Casey’s convenience store in Elmwood was not robbed last week. About noon on April 27, Elmwood police officer Mike Darrah and a Peoria County Sheriff’s deputy were dispatched to the store at 811 W. Main St. The hold-up alarm there had been triggered, according to an Elmwood police report. When Darrah arrived at Casey’s, he noticed three company trucks in the parking lot and employees working at the…

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Police reports • EDWARDS – Ronda S. Frye, 51, of Edwards was arrested April 22 after she was charged with two counts of forgery, according to a Peoria County Sheriff’s report. • A mailbox at a residence in the 5600 block of North Kickapoo-Edwards Road was destroyed sometime between 8 p.m. April 10 and 7 a.m. April 11, according to a Peoria County Sheriff’s report. The mailbox was among others in a row. Another mailbox was damaged. Homeowners did not hear…