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Mayor Jeff Kaufman touched on a number of topics, including the village's response to what he called "growing pains." Morton's population has grown the past two years and now is close to 18,000, Kaufman said.
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Fire crews could be seen battling flames that engulfed a large stack of material, attacking both from the ground and overhead from a ladder truck.
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Encouraging “purposeful collisions'' between central Illinois’ leading agriculture technology entrepreneurs and community developers was the purpose behind Morton’s first AgTech Connect session.
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hough some of the council’s strategic goals for the city’s previous five-year plan went unmet due to the effects of the Covid pandemic, Morton EDC CEO Leigh Ann Brown presented an optimistic outlook for a strong and sustainable local economy over the next five years.
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Morton wasn't the first "Pumpkin Capital of the World," or the first home of the Pumpkin Festival. That honor belongs to Eureka, the Woodford County seat, about 17 miles northeast of Morton.
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Natural gas customers in Morton and across the Tri-County should expect significantly higher heating bills this winter.
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The February gas bill for the village of Morton is coming due later this week--and it's expected to be a big one.Village President Jeff Kaufman said the…
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Utilities are asking residents to turn down the heat as widespread power outages in Texas and Oklahoma limit natural gas production and shipments to the…