Payton Felix

After a fundraiser was started to pay off unpaid student lunch fees at Dixon Public Schools, administrators found it would be too costly to enroll in a federally assisted program that provides free meals to all students.

The Dixon School Board on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, approved three bids for new flooring and ceiling tiles in the gym and a playground.

Constellation Energy, owner of the Byron Nuclear Power Station, plans to invest about $355 million in a lengthy project that will increase the site's power output and extend the life of the facility and its equipment.

The resolution approved Wednesday also pushes for predictable funding for public education.

The Dixon City Council has decided that representatives from Discover Dixon and the Lee County Industrial Development Association need to appear before the council before it will approve contracts to allocate funds to the organizations.

The Dixon City Council will vote April 17, 2025, whether to approve the fiscal 2026 budget.

Spencer Aurand, former business manager at Dixon Stage Left, will fill the role previously filled by Darren Mangler. Aurand left Stage Left a couple months ago and decided to move back to theater when the Dixon theater board approached him about the position.

Bearing the weight of escalating repair and maintenance costs, Coloma Township's newly appointed board and its residents unanimously voted at Tuesday’s annual town meeting to sell the still-vacant US Bank building the township purchased two years ago

Luther Head, who played six seasons in the NBA, made an appearance Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Lee County Circuit Court. An extradition hearing is set for April 17 in Lee County.

Jonathon Gounaris, 32, is charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, three counts of aggravated battery and two counts of possession of a firearm without a firearm owner’s identification card.

The city of Dixon announced the start of its $12 million pedestrian bridge project Tuesday morning at the band shell in Page Park. Project Rock will construct a pedestrian bridge over the Rock River, add 2.8 miles of multi-use pathway and resurface about a mile of Page Drive.

Eight volunteers for the Dixon in Bloom Committee filled 336 hanging pots with 20 petunias each - that’s 30 more pots and 294 more plants than 2024. The petunias will be on display in late May.

Total voter turnout was 16.77% of the 22,248 registered voters in Lee County and 18.01% of 37,881 in Whiteside.

In the contested race for Dixon Township’s highway commissioner, voters reelected incumbent Corey Reuter, according to Lee County’s unofficial election results.

Only weeks after The Dixon: Historic Theatre‘s grand reopening, its executive director, who also served as artistic producer, is no longer employed with the 103-year-old theater.