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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 […]
Pvt. Austin Harnois and Pvt. Autumn Harnois, of Belvidere, Illinois, were sworn into the Illinois Army National Guard Jan. 31, at the Chicago Military Entrance Processing Station. Austin enlisted as a 12N, Horizontal Engineer and Autumn enlisted as an 88M, Motor Transport Operator. Both are assigned Company C, Recruit Sustainment […]
By Anne Eickstadt Editor The Capron Lions were flipping pancakes to raise funds for a transplant house on Saturday, Feb. 17. “The Restoring Hop Transplant House provides a temporary home atmosphere for organ, stem cell, and bone marrow transplant patients and their caregivers,” said Kelly Boettger. “They work in […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter The federal Uniform Crime Reports are divided into two parts. The most serious offenses are Part I crimes, the less serious are listed under Part II. When it came to the city of Belvidere in 2017, most of the Part I offenses decreased in number. Deputy […]
By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class James H. Green NAVY OFFICE OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH A Poplar Grove native and 2017 North Boone High School graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard USS Russell. Fireman Apprentice Teagan Ryan is a fireman aboard the guided-missile destroyer operating out of San Diego. […]
By Anne Eickstadt Editor Week Two of the Citizen’s Police Academy began with Session One. Deputy Chief Matthew Wallace was scheduled to be in two places at the same time Wednesday, Feb. 7, so he swapped sessions with Officer Tim Blankenship. Officer Blankenship provided plenty of interest with ‘A Day […]
