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Early on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. Planes with long flights were intentionally selected for hijacking because they would be heavily fueled. At 8:46 a.m., American […]
By Bob Kopp BDR SPORTS CORRESPONDENT Driving back early Friday from my upper-octogenarian parents in NE Pennsylvania, I wondered if it would be worth the stress of battling Labor Day weekend road warriors and enduring always-exasperating Chicago traffic to catch the cross-town-rival action at Milt Brown Stadium. Yes! With packed […]
By Kathryn Menue EDITOR In a match set against Freeport High School on Thursday, Sept. 1 at Timber Pointe Golf Course, the Belvidere girls’ golf co-op team defeated the Pretzels by a huge margin of 179-234. “Congratulations to the girls’ golf team for defeating Freeport High School Thursday by 65 […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER The Boone County Board of Health has approved hiring current employee Amanda Mehl as administrator of the health department. She replaces Cynthia Frank, who retired this month after holding that position for several years. Mehl, a registered nurse, currently is the department’s director of personal health. […]
By Kathryn Menue EDITOR Throughout the end of August and the beginning of September, the University of Illinois Boone County Extension Office offered I on Diabetes, a “four-part series designed to help manage diabetes.” “It’s one of our core programs we do throughout the state,” Marilyn Csernus said. Csernus, MS, […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Two Boone County Sheriff’s Deputies have received a special award for saving a woman’s life. Sheriff Dave Ernest introduced the deputies, Tim Oberholster and Christopher Burbach, at the Aug. 17 meeting of the county board. He explained the deputies responded to a report of a possible […]
By Kathryn Menue EDITOR The Belvidere North High School varsity boys’ golf team is on a roll this season with four wins and two losses for their season tally. Their latest win came on Wednesday, Aug. 31 when they faced Rockford East High School at a home game set at […]
By Kathryn Menue EDITOR The Belvidere varsity girls’ golf co-op team faced off against Rock Falls High School on Wednesday, Aug. 31. In the match, the girls won by a substantial margin of 40 points over the Rock Falls girls. Belvidere finished with an overall score of 178 to Rock […]
The 17th Annual Old Farmin’ Days will be held on Sept. 10 at Ward View Farm in northern Boone County, located at 1171 Rockton Road in Caledonia. Over the past 17 years, the farm show has grown from a neighborhood picnic to a well known event drawing in over 2,500 […]
The 2016 Illinois Master Gardener Conference and Award Ceremony took place on Friday, Aug. 19 at the iHotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Ill. The day included tours of local gardens and presentations by local educators on topics such as helping the bumble bees, and the benefits of being a […]
