The Gathering draws visitors to Macktown despite the snowy weekend By Jean Seegers REPORTER Despite snow and cold temperatures over the weekend, reenactors pitched their tents, cooked their meals over a campfire and chatted with their neighbors and friends during The Gathering at Macktown. Visitors watched history unfold as the […]
STEM classes help kids develop skills for the future By Jean Seegers REPORTER After putting in a full day of first grade classes at Ledgewood School, a group of seven -year old students weren’t ready to call it quits. As part of the after-school STEM Program Entrepreneurship class, they had […]
The University of Illinois Extension has partnered with the Rockford Police Dept. to develop Flavors with 5.0, a seven-week cooking program that exposes middle school youth to the culinary arts, while creating positive interactions with local law enforcement. The program was developed by Extension Youth Development Educator Annie Hobson in […]
Rockford Lutheran High School students provide over 1500 hours of service to the community Service is an essential building block in the Lutheran School experience. It is, in fact, a CORE Value of Rockford Lutheran School. This year, we will be taking our learning outside of our physical building […]
Participants will run as a group to support and encourage each other. They will move at about a 10-minute-per-mile pace. Participants can run any portion of the event.
In January of 2013 the Boone County Conservation District acquired 82-acres of important conservation land along the Piscasaw. The 82-acre site became the Funderburg Conservation Area,
Volunteer for nature at Burr Oak Valley Preserve Natural Land Institute will hold their annual Spring Community Service Day on Saturday, May 4, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Burr Oak Valley Preserve in Roscoe. May is Invasive Species Awareness Month in Illinois. Find out what invasive species […]