Peru to hire Illinois Valley Waste Services for garbage service

The company that picks up garbage in Spring Valley and La Salle will soon be the company picking up garbage in Peru.  Illinois Valley Waste Services is getting the five-year contract with Peru after the city council Monday night chose their bid over their current waste hauler and two other companies.

Alderman Dave Potthoff says the garbage pickup will remain the same along with the cost to you.  The cost to the city will decrease by more than one dollar and fifty cents per household for the first year of the contract.  The rate could increase based on the consumer price index.

Potthoff says they’re still working out details of yard waste pickup.

TRIDENT Makes Cocaine Arrest In Marseilles

Local drug cops hope they’ve put a dent in the cocaine trade.

Mark Przybylski of Marseilles was arrested Friday after he allegedly sold cocaine to an undercover informant.  Investigators say they had been watching Przybylski’s drug activity awhile before arresting him.

He was arrested for unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.  Przybylski was taken to the La Salle County Jail on 40 thousand dollars bond.

Big Year For Marriages In La Salle County

Thanks in some part to people dying and others getting married, it was a profitable year for the La Salle County Clerk’s Office.

As part of her year end report, Clerk JoAnne Caretto says revenues for her office were up by eight thousand dollars.  Marriage and civil union licenses brought in over 18 thousand dollars last year.  They both cost 30 dollars.

Fees for death certificates brought in over 27 hundred dollars.  Death certificates cost 21 dollars.