By Anne Eickstadt Editor The Main Street Players have wrapped up another play, this one a Cold War comedy, Don’t Drink the Water. “An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the American Embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of […]
By Anne Eickstadt Editor “Last year was our first Safety Bowl. We did it at the hospital,” said Jeannie Sullivan, Child Life Specialist at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center. “This year we wanted to reach further into Belvidere.” The Safety Bowl was a fun and educational way for families to […]
By Anne Eickstadt Editor The topic of this week’s class is Traffic Enforcement. Officer Steven Jones has been a field training officer for over 16 years. “I do almost everything they ask me to do,” he said. He then gave us an extensive list of everything he does for the […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter With the 2018 state legislative session having begun Jan. 31, Boone County’s two members of the General Assembly have offered their hopes for a positive, productive four months. State Rep. Joe Sosnowski, R-Rockford, said a new approach is needed in a new year to address new […]
By Anne Eickstadt Editor “One of the challenges I faced as police chief when I started 22 years ago,” said Police Chief Jan Noble, “was the need to step up our department’s training. I needed to have the City Council accept the police chief’s recommendation to increase the training budget […]