A piece of Metamora High School will soon be located in the Library of Congress.
Recently, about 90 students completed video documentaries with war veterans that will be sent to the library to be on record.
Travelers on Cruger Road may have noticed some changes to the front of the Apostolic Christian Home.
However, this is just one of the many renovations the home is undergoing to make the atmosphere more family friendly.
Julia Markun, a senior at Metamora Township High School, won the title of Distinguished Young Woman of Illinois and a $3,500 cash scholarship for college on Sunday when eight high school senior women from across the state competed in the 55th annual Distinguished Young Women of Illinois scholarship competition, a program formerly known as Illinois’ Junior Miss.
What it is: Saturday marked the 151st graduation at Eureka College. The college graduated one of the biggest classes in its history, as 166 students left the college with various bachelor degrees.
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With Mitt Romney closing in on the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination, talk is turning to who he will select as his running mate. And while dozens of names have been thrown around as possibilities, the discussion always seems to end up at these five names.
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I want to share with you a bit of Metamora history you did not learn in school history class or may have never heard of. My bet is that both are true.
During the Old Settlers celebration in 1923, a gentleman named Edward Trapp of Peoria presented a 5x7 foot mural painting he had done of Abraham Lincoln to the Metamora Courthouse. The building had just gone through an extensive restoration project that removed various external features that had been added in the 1870s. The project returned the structure to near its original form.
