Archive for: April, 2015

Admission button for Young at Heart Festival is unveiled

Admission button for Young at Heart Festival is unveiled

By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – As has been the custom for the past 43 years, officials representing the Young at Heart Festival have gathered to unveil the admission button for the annual, Memorial Day celebration. That was done on April 20, a very un-springlike day, in the lobby […]

 
 

Plays return to Pecatonica High along with special guest Kevin Stites

By Doug Schroder Editor PECATONICA – For the first time in 20 years an all district play took place at Pecatonica High School on Friday night, April 24, when the students put on a performance of The Wizard of Oz. It had been 20 years since just a high school […]

 
 

Heritage Days to pack new activities into 3 days

Heritage Days to pack new activities into 3 days

By Bob Balgemann Reporter BELVIDERE – The city’s annual celebration of Heritage Days will be here in a scant two months. And a committee is meeting in hopes of making the three-day festival a good time for the young, old and in-between. This year’s dates are June 26-28, with the […]

 
 

Roscoe Middle School hosts Fine Arts Festival, band, choir concert

Roscoe Middle School hosts Fine Arts Festival, band, choir concert

By Jean Seegers Reporter  ROSCOE – Family members and friends of Roscoe Middle School students filled the gymnasium, common area and hallways on Wednesday evening, April 22 to view art projects, and listen to the school choir and band. Music teacher Diane Boelte, directed the sixth grade Band, RMS Jazz […]

 
 

Stillman 7th Graders learn about crime scene investigation

By Doug Schroder Editor STILLMAN VALLEY – For the past few weeks, the 7th grade Science classes at Meridian Junior High have been trying to solve the mock crime scene of the murder of Paul Dudden (based off of an Agatha Christie Story). The school received a crime scene kit […]

 
 

Drug collection bin placed at Public Safety Building

Drug collection bin placed at Public Safety Building

BELVIDERE – Boone County Drug Prevention Coalition is pleased to announce a permanent location for Boone County residents to safely dispose of prescription medicines and to keep them from being abused. With the help of Boone County Crime Stoppers and the CVS Pharmacy’s Safer Communities grant program, a MedReturn Drug […]

 
 

Chairman’s appointments receive unanimous support

Chairman’s appointments receive unanimous support

By Bob Balgemann Reporter BELVIDERE – One of the jobs of the Boone County Board chairman is to appoint people to fill vacancies on the various committees, commissions, districts and associations, and in the fire districts. Those appointments need concurrence from the full county board. In some cases, the recommendations […]

 
 

Application deadline approaching for Miss Boone County Fair Queen contestants

Application deadline approaching for Miss Boone County Fair Queen contestants

BELVIDERE – The deadline to enter the Queen Pageant for the title of 2015 Miss Boone County Fair is Tuesday, May 12 when an informational meeting will be held at the Community Grange Hall, 8791 Rt. 76 at 6:30 p.m.  The Grange Hall is at the main entrance to the […]

 
 

Winnebago School District donates 3,400 books to Crusader Clinic

Winnebago School District donates 3,400 books to Crusader Clinic

WINNEBAGO – During the month of March, students and staff in the Winnebago School District participated in a Gently Used Book Drive for Crusader Clinic. Winnebago High School made the book drive a main focus during their annual “Inspire Change” week. On April 13, thirteen students, representing both Winnebago High […]

 
 

Belvidere woman runs red light, hits three vehicles

Belvidere woman runs red light, hits three vehicles

LOVES PARK – On Sunday, April 19, at approximately 10:17 a.m., Loves Park officers responded to an accident with injuries at the intersection of E. Riverside Blvd. and Mulford Road, involving four vehicles. During the investigation, it was alleged that one of the drivers, Maria Rivera Gutierrez, 32, of Belvidere, […]

 
 
 
 
 
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