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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for September · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yesteryear. Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the
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  Speaker 1: record for September. Written by Jeff Farron for Shaw Local
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  Speaker 1: News Network. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlit. September 2021, about 20
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville high school students participated in a school-sanctioned walkout to
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  Speaker 1: protest the statewide school mask mandate. School officials stressed they
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  Speaker 1: were not taking sides in the issue. September 2011, Arizona
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the guest at the annual Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County Republican fundraiser. The supporters outmatched the protesters as the
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  Speaker 1: controversial Maricopa County official spoke. September 2006, the city of
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville will be the oversight authority if a landfill application
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  Speaker 1: is received as expected for a parcel of land on
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  Speaker 1: Route 71 at High Point Road. After four hours of
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  Speaker 1: public comment, virtually all opposed to the action, the Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: City Council annexed the 1,113-acre site. About 220 acres would
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  Speaker 1: be used for the proposed landfill. September 2001, Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: residents tried to sort out what happened in the September
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  Speaker 1: 11th terrorist attacks in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
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  Speaker 1: One of the victims was a Yorkville native, Jeffrey Coleman, 41,
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  Speaker 1: a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, the first
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  Speaker 1: of two planes that hit the towers in New York.
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  Speaker 1: The new bridge over the Fox River at Orchard Road opened.
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  Speaker 1: September 1996, public hearings were held on the Lakehead Oil Pipeline.
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  Speaker 1: The proposed route begins at the east side of Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County near Route 52 and exits the county on the
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  Speaker 1: northwest portion near Little Rock. September 1991, dozens of Bristol
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  Speaker 1: residents were evacuated after about 20 cars of a freight
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  Speaker 1: train derailed just east of Cannonball Trail. There was a
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  Speaker 1: fear the hazardous materials had spilled, causing the evacuations. No
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  Speaker 1: hazardous spill was found, and damage was estimated at $ 300, 000.
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  Speaker 1: September 1986. A marker has been placed at the site
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  Speaker 1: of the Yorkville Sesquicentennial Vault. The vault is to be
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  Speaker 1: opened in 2036, September 1981. Wayne Larson announced in a
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  Speaker 1: letter to the editor in the record that he will
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  Speaker 1: discontinue his ambulance service in Yorkville. Larson's father started the
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  Speaker 1: ambulance business in Yorkville more than 50 years ago. He
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  Speaker 1: cited rising costs and regulations. Residents of the Bristol-Kendall Fire
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  Speaker 1: Protection District will vote on a proposal to form an
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  Speaker 1: ambulance district in November. September 1976, workers moved an insurance
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  Speaker 1: office building on South Bridge Street, just south of the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville National Bank main building. To make room for bank expansion,
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  Speaker 1: the building next to the library was moved to the
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  Speaker 1: northwest corner of Bridge and Van Emmen. The library will
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  Speaker 1: be moved to a site on the same side of
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  Speaker 1: Bridge Street, just south of the river and the present
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  Speaker 1: structure torn down. September 1971. A suggestion for a traffic
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  Speaker 1: study on Bridge Street, Route 47 through downtown was turned
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  Speaker 1: over to the Streets and Alleys Committee. The committee is
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  Speaker 1: to study if a traffic light may be needed. September 1966.
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  Speaker 1: Franklin Martin, Chief of Police of Yorkville for 26 years
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  Speaker 1: under six different city administrations, submitted his resignation to the
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  Speaker 1: City Council. Leroy Budd, Psalm of Aurora, was named to
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  Speaker 1: replace him. September 1961. Local conservationists are looking for answers
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  Speaker 1: to why so many fish are dying in the Fox River.
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  Speaker 1: Seems some cyanide was improperly disposed of near Aurora, and
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  Speaker 1: it made its way into the river and downstream. September 1956,
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  Speaker 1: a building permit was issued to Caterpillar Tractor Company for
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  Speaker 1: a new manufacturing facility in northeast Kendall County. September 1951,
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  Speaker 1: residents had many questions for school supped James Talbot about
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  Speaker 1: the proposed grade school to be built on Somanock Street
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  Speaker 1: near King Street. September 1946, voters approved a hotly contested
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  Speaker 1: bond issue for blacktopping roads in Kendall County. The bond
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  Speaker 1: issue was $ 400, 000 with what many considered a hefty 2.25%
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  Speaker 1: interest rate. The issue was approved 7-28-6-98. September 1941, the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Lions Club voted to encourage the building of a
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  Speaker 1: walk across the Fox River Bridge on the outside of
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  Speaker 1: the present bridge railing. The need for more protection for
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  Speaker 1: walkers increased. is apparent from a health and safety standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions Club stated. September 1936, the Yorkville Centennial closed
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  Speaker 1: with a street dance and carnival, which attracted one of
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  Speaker 1: the largest crowds of the five-day celebration. The fashion march
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  Speaker 1: of time had to be postponed on account of rain
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  Speaker 1: and was held in the high school auditorium Sunday. A
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  Speaker 1: vast throng witnessed the parade, which included the 55-piece Mooseheart Band.
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  Speaker 1: September 1931. Russell Lyon was relieved of $ 25 when he
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  Speaker 1: was held up while working at the Y service station,
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  Speaker 1: Route 34 and 47. Two men in an eight-cylinder machine
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  Speaker 1: came from the west, stopping at the station a little
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  Speaker 1: after 8 p.m. for gasoline. They made a hasty survey
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  Speaker 1: of the situation, then drew guns and held up Russell,
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  Speaker 1: who came out to attend to their wants. September 1926,
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  Speaker 1: the Pletcher School will begin with Miss Alice Dolph as teacher,
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  Speaker 1: the Platteville School will begin with John Clayton as high
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  Speaker 1: school teacher, and Mrs. Frances McCauley as teacher of the grades.
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  Speaker 1: September 1921, the Kendall County Homecoming Picnic was held in Yorkville,
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  Speaker 1: despite the rain. The chairman was Oscar Friedberg. There was
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  Speaker 1: a horseshoe tournament, good speakers, a fast baseball game won
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  Speaker 1: by the Yorkville Orioles, excellent band music, and a pleasing dance.
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  Speaker 1: September 1916, Glenn Palmer returned from the Springfield Fair, coming
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  Speaker 1: home with five first prizes on Baird Rock Chickens and
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  Speaker 1: having the best display. September 1911, three horses in James
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  Speaker 1: Naden's pasture were killed by lightning. September 1906, Stanley Leverick
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  Speaker 1: has a turn-around-about, the third of the automobile vehicles in town.
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  Speaker 1: September 1901, Frank Harris has some ears of white corn
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  Speaker 1: in his field as long as your arm. September 1896,
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  Speaker 1: by Monday, Thomas Jones hopes to have his Lisbon shop
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  Speaker 1: open for business. Mr. Jones has been in the horseshoeing
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  Speaker 1: business in Newark for some time and worked with his
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  Speaker 1: brother Fred in Yorkville. September 1891. Yorkville schools began business
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  Speaker 1: for the season, and the young people were delighted to
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  Speaker 1: resume their duties. Professor Edmonds is at the head of
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  Speaker 1: things with Mrs. Morse, the assistant in the high school.
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  Speaker 1: September 1886. Workmen have been busy erecting a bridge over
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  Speaker 1: the Little Rock Creek southeast of Plano. September 1881. Nate
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  Speaker 1: Lauck's new barn in Oswego has a cistern under it
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  Speaker 1: that will hold 500 barrels of water, and he is
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  Speaker 1: anxious for a rain to fill it up. Nate has
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  Speaker 1: one of the finest barns in the county. September 1876.
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  Speaker 1: The grand centennial exhibition of the Kendall County Fair was held.
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  Speaker 1: The finest display of horses, cattle, hogs, etc. ever shown
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  Speaker 1: in Kendall County. The weather has been foul and the
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  Speaker 1: fair is extended one day. The program includes trotting exhibitions
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  Speaker 1: and a balloon ascension. September 1866. Owing to the rain
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  Speaker 1: and wet condition of the grounds on Tuesday last, The
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  Speaker 1: officers of the Kendall County Agricultural Society deemed it the
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  Speaker 1: best policy to postpone the holding of the Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: Fair until next month. The same premium list, rules, etc.,
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  Speaker 1: as has been advertised, will govern the fair.