Belvidere Republican

Boone County FF Explorers tackle extrications

Boone County FF Explorers tackle extrications

By Anne Eickstadt EDITOR Last month the Belvidere Fire Dept. hosted a house fire rescue training session for the Boone County Explorers Program. This month, Boone County Fire District #2 hosted the youth for a vehicle extrication training. Extrication involves stabilizing the vehicles at the site of the accident and […]

 
 

48th Annual Poplar Grove Airport Fly-In packed with guests

48th Annual Poplar Grove Airport Fly-In packed with guests

By Anne Eickstadt EDITOR The Poplar Grove Airport and the Poplar Grove Vintage Wings & Wheels Museum hosted a great many people who came out to enjoy the annual event. Breakfast was cancelled this year on Sunday, Aug. 16 due to the pandemic precautions taken but food trucks served burgers, […]

 
 

Newly annexed Belvidere Cemetery property to include new office

Newly annexed Belvidere Cemetery property to include new office

  By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Fairgrounds Road is one of the main entrances to the city and soon it will showcase a new building, designed by the local architectural and engineering firm of Ollmann, Ernest and Martin. The new office will serve the Belvidere Cemetery, final resting place of numerous […]

 
 

Kasey Wells brings his scrap metal elephant to Belvidere

Kasey Wells brings his scrap metal elephant to Belvidere

By Anne Eickstadt Editor Kasey Wells is running as a write-in candidate for president. He has been hauling an 11-foot scrap metal elephant around the country seeking votes for November. “I left home on tour five months ago with $500,” Wells said. “I am now registered in virtually every state […]

 
 

Belvidere police honored for their role in live-saving river rescue

Belvidere police honored for their role in live-saving river rescue

By Bob Balgemann REPORTER The life of city police officers has changed considerably over the years and there are fewer typical days, when they primarily keep busy writing traffic tickets, responding to complaints, and filling out incident reports. One Belvidere sergeant and five officers were honored during the July 27 […]

 
 

Dairy Day at B1 Food Pantry

Dairy Day at B1 Food Pantry

By Anne Eickstadt EDITOR The truck from Prairie Farms arrived at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 29. It delivered 900 boxes of dairy products fresh from Prairie Farms for the B1 Food Pantry, at the B1 Church, 1105 7th Ave. Each box contained two gallons of 2 percent milk, four […]

 
 

Firefighter Explorers meetings restart

Firefighter Explorers meetings restart

By Anne Eickstadt EDITOR The Boy Scout Explorer programs are interactive, worksite-based career education program of Learning for Life, an affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America. Participants in the program are called Explorers. The program serves youth in 6th to 8th grades and young men and women who are […]

 
 

The 4-H Fair Show must go on

The 4-H Fair Show must go on

The Boone County 4-H youth development program empowers and prepares youth for success by providing opportunities for youth to learn, practice, and demonstrate skills needed for home, career, and citizenship. Youth, organized in clubs, study areas of interest called 4-H projects. Projects include a wide range of interests: animal science, […]

 
 

SwedishAmerican opens primary care wellness center serving FCA Belvidere Assembly Plant employees and their families

SwedishAmerican opens primary care wellness center serving FCA Belvidere Assembly Plant employees and their families

-The Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Family Health and Wellness Center-Belvidere is a primary care, near-site health facility established to serve more than 8,600 FCA employees and their covered family members. It is located at what was formerly St. Joseph’s Hospital in Belvidere, 1625 S. State St. -FCA partners with SwedishAmerican […]

 
 

Residents rise in support of three departed animal services employees

By Bob Balgemann Reporter There was a larger than usual turnout of residents at the July 15 Boone County Board meeting, with the vast majority of them commending three employees of the County Animal Services Department, and wondering why they suddenly walked off the job Friday afternoon, July 10. Each […]

 
 
 
 
 
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