Day: April 16, 2025
Deer disease in Peoria Co.
Sick whitetail tests positive for CWD By JEFF LAMPEFor The Weekly Post The bad news that deer hunters and recreational landowners in Peoria County had long expected finally arrived over the weekend, when the state announced a sick 2-year-old deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The deer came from a location 5 miles west of Edwards and 4 miles northeast of Trivoli, just west of Eden Road. In other words, way too close to home. The CWD diagnosis is bad for many reasons. The neurological disease, which is akin to mad cow disease, is always fatal for deer. CWD…
Billtown lays off 6
Deficit leads board to RIF employees By NICK VLAHOSFor The Weekly Post WILLIAMSFIELD – It could have been worse. Instead of laying off all 10 district paraprofessionals as planned, the Williamsfield School Board voted Monday night to let go of four. Board President Chad Goff suggested the modification. The teacher’s-aide reductions, coupled with laying off two food-service workers, would help culminate the district’s paring of at least a $500,000 deficit, according to Goff. “Our expenses for the month were $98,000. Our payroll was $414,000 for the month,” Goff said in front of about 20 attendees, many of them paraprofessionals. “In order…
Prosecutor says money a motivation in Maquon murder case
By NICK VLAHOSFor The Weekly Post GALESBURG – Money might have been a primary motivation for a woman accused of murdering the former Maquon police chief, according to prosecutors. Tens of thousands of dollars were withdrawn from bank accounts Richard Young shared with Marcy Oglesby, Knox County State’s Attorney Ashley Worby said Monday. Worby made that accusation in court during a motion hearing in Oglesby’s case, which is scheduled to go to trial next week. Oglesby’s name was added to the accounts about the time Young is believed to have died from poisoning, in October or November 2021, according to Worby….
The Weekly Post public record for 4-17-25
Police reports• PEORIA – A Farmington man was accused of stealing a purse from a woman at a Peoria warehouse-club retailer. The incident happened about 4:15 p.m. March 29 at Sam’s Club, 4100 W. Willow Knolls Drive. Security-camera video revealed a man grabbed the yellow purse from a shopping cart, then fled as a passenger in a silver 2014 Chevrolet Impala, according to a Peoria Police Department report. A Peoria officer traced the vehicle’s license plate to Farmington. A Farmington officer identified the suspect as 46-year-old Jonathan L. Halverson. The Farmington officer arrested Halverson about 7 p.m. and transferred him…
