Mike Fritch, commander of Cambridge American Legion Post No. 417, presents an award to Josh Verscheure as Henry County Deputy of the Year during the Veteran’s Day Soup and Chili Supper Friday, Nov. 11 at Valley View Country Club. Other nominees for the award were Bruce Mahaffey and David Smutzer.
This week the Cambridge Chronicle features Jim Kessinger as the Public Safety Person of the Week.
Cambridge American Legion Post 417 honored Ginny Kruger as Cambridge EMT of the Year.
Cambridge American Legion Post 417 honored Josh Verscheure as the Henry County Sheriff's Deputy of the Year.
Here is what you need to know about the fire truck the Cambridge Fire Protection District recently purchased.
Traffic on I-74 and IL 82 through Andover and Lynn Center has returned to normal, the Henry County Sheriff's Department reports.
Drivers are asked to avoid using I-74 or IL 81 through the Andover and Lynn Center area this morning, Friday, Oct. 14, according to a press release from the Henry County Sheriff's Department. Motorists should use Route 150, Osco Road, Route 6 or Route 17 to go through the area, the press release said.
The Cambridge Fire Protection District has moved into its new building on Route 82 and is accepting sealed bids for the old district building on East Court Street.
A K-9 unit might be in the works for the Henry County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff Jim Padilla spoke to the Henry County Board on Tuesday, June 14, about the possibility of obtaining a dog.
Volunteers from the Cambridge Fire Department received a call from George Mille that his sawmill appeared to be on fire Thursday, June 30, at 8:08 a.m.
The George Mille Saw Mill caught fire early Thursday morning, June 30, in rural Galva. Fire departments on the scene included Cambridge, Galva, Osco and Andover, Bishop Hill, Kewanee and Atkinson.
In approximately a month, Jeff Hutchinson, Cambridge Fire Protection District president, hopes the new fire station located off Route 82, just south of Route 81 on the east edge of town, will be open for business.
CAMBRIDGE—A winter storm hit Cambridge Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 1 and 2. The 17-1/2-inch snow was accompanied by high winds which created blizzard warnings from noon on Tuesday through noon on Wednesday, Feb. 2.
CAMBRIDGE—September and October 2010 saw a lot of progress in the village, from beginning the work on the new fire station to the last days of hotly contested political races.
CAMBRIDGE—Cambridge native Larry VanDyke recently retired from his post as chief deputy of the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department. VanDyke has spent more than 40 years in law enforcement.
CAMBRIDGE—Cambridge and Osco-Andover Fire Departments responded to an early morning fire at Cambridge Heritage Village on the corner of Prospect and Locust Streets Friday, Nov. 5.
CAMBRIDGE—Morton Builders, Inc. of Morton, with a branch office in Atkinson, started construction of the new $1.49 million Cambridge fire station at the end of last week.
CAMBRIDGE—Hammond-Henry Hospital Foundation announced it donated $31,000 for the purchase of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to be placed in surrounding communities such as Geneseo, Colona, Cambridge, Atkinson and Annawan. Cambridge received two of the machines. One will be placed in the Cambridge police car, while the other one will be at the Village of Cambridge office.
LYNN CENTER—Employees of Darling International, Inc., Lynn Center, spent Friday night and Saturday, Sept. 24 and 25, working to clear debris after a massive fire destroyed the factory's 22,000 square foot warehouse Friday morning.
CAMBRIDGE—A coroner’s jury recently returned verdicts on the deaths of Haley L. Harp, 21, of Cambridge and Richard J. Stiles, 49, of Orion.
