Michael Urbanec

Morris Mayor Chris Brown took time during the City Council meeting Wednesday morning to share that the city of Morris, amidst all the renovations to the parks and the ongoing projects, ran at a surplus in 2024.

The Grundy Area Vocational Center honored over 100 students for their achievements this last school during its annual awards night Wednesday night in a packed Coal City High School Auditorium.

The Grundy Area FFA, Seneca Ag Program and Ag in the Classroom hosted Grundy County fourth grade students Friday at the Grundy County Fairgrounds, teaching them all about conservation, crops, plants, fruits and vegetables, and farming equipment.

Three Morris Community High School and Grundy Area Vocational Center students, Bradley Raffel, Valeria Garcia and Kira Dergo will be traveling to Atlanta in June after finishing first place at the state-level SkillsUSA competition in Peoria.

The Grundy County Proactive Unit, a collaboration of officers from cities and jurisdictions within Grundy County, seized 216.5 grams of fentanyl and $1,961 in cash during a traffic stop on Wednesday.

The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Northern Grundy County until 2 p.m. Tuesday that will hit Morris, Channahon, Minooka and Mazon.

The gym at Morris Community High School was full for perhaps the last time in the 2023-2024 school year on Wednesday night as the high school honored its 2023-2024 honors students.

In a sign of the coming summer and the warmer weather, Morris City Pool will be open for the first time in 2024 from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 25.

Students from Coal City, Morris, Gardner-South Wilmington and Seneca High Schools made their decisions on how to split $5,000 each among local nonprofit organizations Monday night.

A representative from Constellation Energy asked the Grundy County Board to issue a resolution of support for the Dresden Clean Energy Center as Constellation works on renewing its license for another 20 years.