Here is a list of property transfers for Lee County for July 14-18, 2025.

The Sterling/Rock Falls Jaycee’s fireworks display ignites at dusk (about 9:30 p.m.) Thursday, July 3, and OSF HealthCare Saint Katharine Medical Center will sponsor Dixon's Petunia Festival Family Fun Night from 5-7 p.m. Friday, July 4.

Firefighters from several local departments fought a blaze Monday morning at 1308 Harmon Road, Dixon.

A Facebook post suggested the owner found human bones while renovating.

The 40th annual Polo Farm Toy Show will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 1.

The list honors students with a semester grade-point average of 3.5 or higher.

According to a Dixon Police Department news release, John D. Mowery, 41, was taken into custody Tuesday, Nov. 12.

“The Nutcracker” will be performed at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, at Centennial Auditorium, Sterling High School.

Lee County voters support Amboy, Harmon fire departments' merger.

The measure was approved after receiving a vote of 173 in favor and 50 against, according to unofficial election results posted on the Lee County elections website.

Fire districts' residents will decide whether to merge departments to ensure coverage for Harmon area, fire official says.

Harmon church's soup supper is next week, Rock Falls' Love Lights the Way to Hometown Holidays set for Nov. 21-23

Woodlawn Arts Academy will present its fall musical theater production, Disney-Pixar’s “Finding Nemo Kids," at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11; 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at Centennial Auditorium at Sterling High School.

Door prizes will be awarded and free coffee and rolls will be available.

Melissa Schultz, Haunted Haven’s owner, says she and her husband, Joseph Norton, discovered the fire. They had gone to the Haunted Haven barn Monday to pick up some tools and a lawn mower when they noticed smoke coming from the second floor.

The Rock Falls and Sterling fire departments and CGH EMS were dispatched at 1:14 p.m. Monday to a structure fire at the Haunted Haven Barn, 29038 Grennan Road.

Learn about the Hopewell civilization during a Sterling Rock Falls Historical Society presentation.

On Jan. 14, the Harmon Village Board of Trustees voted unanimously to merge the Harmon Fire Department with the Amboy Fire Protection District, Harmon Acting Mayor Galen Hooper said.

The United Methodist Church in Harmon will host a spaghetti supper from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Feb. 8.

Harmon soup supper raising funds for church's siding.

K-9 Henry and its handler graduated May 26 from a six-week Patrol, Utility & Narcotics Detection training course in Michigan and became certified by the International Police Work Dog Association.

The Diocese of Rockford, which covers Lee, Whiteside, Ogle, Carroll and seven other counties, had 24 substantiated child sex abusers, according to the attorney general’s report.

A Sterling man who was wanted in a stabbing will serve the rest of his life in prison after beating a South Carolina man to death with a wrench.

The supper includes spaghetti, bread, salad, dessert, and drinks.

A Milledgeville man's trial is postponed three more months.

The trial of a Milledgeville man accused of driving with a BAC nearly three times the legal limit when hit a car in August 2018, resulting in the death of the driver three days later, is postponed three more months.

An autopsy is scheduled Tuesday afternoon for a 3-year-old Nelson girl who was pronounced dead early Saturday at CGH Medical Center in Sterling, the Whiteside County coroner said.

Services will be held Tuesday for a 22-year-old Dixon man killed Friday in a rollover near Harmon.

A 22-year-old Dixon man is dead after a rollover on U.S. Route 30 near Harmon Road shortly after midnight.

Police reports for Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Sauk Valley area police reports for May 24, 2021