Donations being accepted to help family of injured woman

A week ago Saturday, a car crash north of Peru killed a man and injured several other people. A fundraiser has been launched to help the family of a woman that has to recover from her injuries.

A Go Fund Me account was created this week to help Amber Sessler’s family cover travel and other expenses as they visit her in the hospital in Peoria.

Peru to make changes with sales tax rebate

Depending on where you are shopping in Peru, a developer could be receiving a cut of the sales tax. That’s the case with some of the businesses in the Peru Market Place, the shopping area that includes Wal-Mart.

City officials will be making a couple of changes to the sales tax agreement it has with the developers. The changes will be the topic of two public hearings Monday night. The first meeting is at 6:45pm to be followed by another hearing at 7pm.

The city has been rebating half of the Municipal Retailers’ Occupation Tax and other Home Rule tax. The agreements are being changed to rebate half of the Municipal Retailers’ Occupation Tax only and to extend the time the developer has to receive the $900,000 incentive.