Archive for: January, 2016

Adopt a Book Program adds to Talcott Library collection

Adopt a Book Program adds to Talcott Library collection

By Jean Seegers Reporter ROCKTON – Talcott Library Children’s Librarian Marianne Stenzel retired at the end of the year.  She has been at Talcott Library for over 18 years. Stenzel’s has left a legacy that lives on in many ways. First and foremost is the Adopt a Book campaign that […]

 
 

Jean Seegers photos A door where the Hononegah High School inflated dome once stood looked like a door to nowhere following the collapse of the iconic structure, Dec. 29.

Jean Seegers photos A door where the Hononegah High School inflated dome once stood looked like a door to nowhere following the collapse of the iconic structure, Dec. 29.

LOVES PARK – On Tuesday, Dec. 29, at about 11:20 p.m., Loves Park officers were dispatched to a traffic crash in the 1800 block of Harlem Road, near the intersection with N. Alpine Road. A driver eastbound on Harlem Road left the south side of the roadway and crashed into […]

 
 

Harlem, Hononegah bowlers to battle for NIC-10 supremacy

By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – Harlem and Hononegah will take their sports rivalry – this time in boys varsity bowling – to Forest Hills Lanes this afternoon (Thursday) with first place in the NIC-10 at stake. The Huskies and Indians brought identical 6-0 records into the first week […]

 
 

Weekend events for Friday, Jan. 8 through Sunday, Jan. 10

Weekend events for Friday, Jan. 8 through Sunday, Jan. 10

Friday, Jan. 8 The Belvidere High School boys and girls bowling teams will face Freeport at Forest Hills Lanes at 4 p.m. Belvidere North High School and Rockford East sophomore and varsity boys’ basketball teams will compete at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Rockford East High School. The Belvidere […]

 
 

Mental Toughness

By Jamie Buck BYRON – Mental toughness is essential to becoming physically fit. The Battle of the Bulge workouts as well as the Curves Circuit involve training that mimics the way our bodies function in our everyday life, otherwise known as Body Weight or Functional Core-Based Training. We are forcing […]

 
 

Museum donates building to Pec Playhouse

Museum donates building to Pec Playhouse

PECATONICA – The Pecatonica Heritage Museum members, Joan Cunningham President, Janice Butler Treasurer, Mary Mohaupt Secretary met at the U.S. Bank Tuesday, Dec. 22, for the purpose of donating the property of the old Granary elevator and breezeway area to the Pec Playhouse Theater for future expansion. The sum of […]

 
 

Nearly half of Illinois high school graduates enrolled in community colleges require remediation

New post-secondary remediation rate data will help ISBE identify additional supports students need before graduation SPRINGFIELD – New post-secondary remediation data released by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) shows that 48.7 percent of Illinois high school graduates who enrolled in Illinois’ community college system after graduation required remediation […]

 
 

Farm Bureau’s youth lend helping hands

Farm Bureau’s youth lend helping hands

By Emily Hanlin Winnebago-Boone Farm Bureau BOONE COUNTY – After a huge meal on Thanksgiving Thursday, my family shopped until we dropped on Black Friday. Soon after that, we snatched the best online deals possible on Cyber Monday. But then, on Tuesday we did something new. For the first time […]

 
 

Two Illinois State Police Tele-communicators celebrate retirement

Two Illinois State Police Tele-communicators celebrate retirement

PECATONICA – Illinois State Police (ISP) District Sixteen personnel bid farewell to two Telecommunications Specialists who retired Dec. 31, 2015. Family and co-workers, past and present, honored Gail Johnson of Pecatonica and Cynthia Akins of Rockford. Gail Johnson began her career with the ISP in 1979. Cynthia Akins has served […]

 
 

Contract to build new animal shelter approved in face of controversy

Contract to build new animal shelter approved in face of controversy

By Shelby R. Farrell Reporter BOONE COUNTY – Boone County might finally break ground on a new animal services building, but the cost is still higher than it was originally estimated. The Boone County Board of Trustees chose Rockford Structures to build the new shelter under an $870,800 construction contract, […]

 
 
 
 
 
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