Author Archive: RvpAdmin
Final exam on 2020 set by Pec School Board
By Christopher Johnson REPORTER COVID-19’s impact is one that leaders within the Pecatonica School District have learned to work through and now a final exam on first semester success sits waiting to be taken. Even as students within District 321 prepare for their own reviews of knowledge gained during the […]
Rad women of Belvidere: Mary Detrick Balliet – A great woman
By Mindy Long Local History Librarian, Ida Public Library There is an adage that’s been around since at least the 1940’s which says, “Behind every great man is a great woman.” It basically means that someway, sometime, and somehow, a woman had a hand in a man’s great success. We […]
Shop with a Kid in its 28th year
By Anne Eickstadt EDITOR Better known as “Shop with a Cop,” this event has become far more than that. The police and sheriff’s departments, and the Belvidere Fire and the Boone County Fire Departments participate as well. They all had the opportunity to Shop with a Kid. Numerous kids joined […]
Boone County Board members thanked for their service
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Four Boone County Board members who attended their last monthly meeting Nov. 18 were thanked for their years of service to the community by board Chairman Karl Johnson and Sheriff Dave Ernest. They were District 1 board members Marshall Newhouse and Denny Ellingson; District 2 board […]