Choir students sing at Western Illinois University This past March nine Byron Middle School Choir students participated in an honor choir festival at Western Illinois University. The students were selected for the event by recording a CD containing a solo “The Water is Wide,” a major scale, and “America.” […]
Roscoe gymnast wins Illinois State Championship Roscoe 4th grader, Amaya Bronson, recently competed at the USA Gymnastics Illinois State Championships held in Bourbonnais, Ill. The Championships are the culmination of what has been a fantastic Compulsory Level 4 season for her. Amaya’s performance wowed both the audience and the judges, […]
OMG It’s OSD’s Epic party prelude to four days of summer fun By Marianne Mueller REPORTER In a day-long event the Rockton Lions Club welcomed the public to the OMG It’s OSD’s Epic party on Saturday, April 13. Fun with Cornhole games allowed guests to toss bags into a hole […]
Byron Station Unit 2 enters refueling outage Byron Generating Station’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor was taken offline at 1 a.m. on Monday, April 8, for a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage. The unit has powered more than one million homes and businesses every day since its last planned outage […]
Stillman Valley FBLA attends Illinois State Conference Stillman Valley’s Future Business Leaders of America attended the Illinois State Conference on Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5 in Springfield. The trip not only included the State Conference, but Stillman Valley members also toured the State Capital where they were […]
Local artists participate in 16th Annual Unforgettable Art: An Affair for Alzheimer’s The Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter is excited to announce the 2019 “Unforgettable Art: Annual Affair for Alzheimer’s.” Unforgettable Art will take place Saturday, April 27, at University of Illinois College of Medicine at 1601 Parkview Ave., in Rockford. […]