Riverside Healthcare is pleased to welcome Israr Ul Haq, MD, to its team of neurology providers. Neurologists specialize in diagnosing and treating disorders of the brain and nervous system, including Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, strokes, and much more. Dr. Ul Haq completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at Aha Khan University in […]
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Peotone Library News
Register for events on the website calendar, or call the library at 708-258-3436. The library will be closed on Friday, August 11, for a staff training day. The Adult Summer Reading program is on-going through August 31. Youth Services August 3: Bingo for Kids, Thursday, from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., ages six – 12. August […]
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Changes Coming to Downtown Peotone
By Andrea Arens The first Downtown Streetscape Ad Hoc Committee meeting since February had a new board member assigned to the committee. Trustee Jackie Richards joined Trustees Shelley Marevka and Julie Sluis. The committee met for about 30 minutes with Mayor Peter March on July 10. In that meeting, March said the first phase of […]
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New State Law Forces Townships to Report Efficiency
By Karen Haave A new state law requiring townships to create a committee to evaluate their own levels of efficiency is getting mixed reviews from local officials. Signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in mid-June, the Decennial Committee on Local Government Efficiency Act requires Illinois townships, road districts, and township multi-assessment districts to create committees to […]
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40th District Illinois State Senator Patrick Joyce Lauds State Road, Infrastructure Plan
By Stephen Nelson Peotone will be getting a second I-57 interchange at Eagle Lake Road as part of the multi-year plan under the Rebuild Illinois program. One hundred fifty million dollars, of a total of $1.4 billion earmarked for projects in the 40th District during the next six years, will be spent on the new […]
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Vivek Reddy, MD, Joins Riverside Heart and Vascular Institute
Dr. Reddy specializes in electrophysiology. Riverside Healthcare is pleased to welcome Vivek Reddy, MD, to its electrophysiology team. Dr. Reddy completed his Doctor of Medicine at the American University of Antigua College of Medicine, Antigua, and Barbuda-Manipal, in Karnataka, India. He completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Wayne State University in Detroit, […]
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Library Collaborates with Obama Foundation on Social Media
The Kankakee Public Library, 201 E. Merchant Street, is releasing a Freedom to Read-themed video on all social media platforms in collaboration with the Obama Foundation. This project has been underway for several weeks after the Obama Foundation reached out to the Kankakee Public Library to create collaborative social media highlighting the importance of reading […]
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Peotone Library News
Register for events on the website calendar or call the library at 708-258-3436. The Adult Summer Reading program is on-going through August 31. Youth Services July 31: Last day to turn in summer reading logs for children and teens. August 1: Bookworm Buddies, Tuesday, at 10:30 a.m., ages three to five years. August 2: Little […]
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Helping Hands Food Pantry
The food pantry will be open to all area residents (including senior citizens and adults both with or without children who reside within the boundaries of the Peotone School District and are in need of food assistance) on Wednesdays, August 2 and 16, from 1 to 5:30 p.m., at the Community Presbyterian Mission Building – […]
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Another Eagle Soars
By Karen Haave Joshua Klootwyk is one of those kids who just seems to excel at everything he does. He was a straight-A junior (with some A-pluses) at Kankakee Trinity Academy last year, taking honors courses while also attending Kankakee Community College for a dual-credit math class. He is in National Honor Society and is […]