The ladder of a fire truck towered high above the Immanuel Lutheran Church grounds as fire trucks and engines, police cars, booths, bounce houses, and food vendors filled the church grounds while guests’ vehicles filled every space in the parking lot.
Sgt. P’s Lapghans for Veterans group works year-round in knitting, crocheting, or sewing wheelchair-friendly afghans and blankets for veterans in Boone and surrounding counties in Illinois and Wisconsin.
In January of 2017, Natalie Pace of Poplar Grove, and a student at Belvidere Central Middle School, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that requires a lengthy series of treatments.
By Anne Eickstadt Editor General Mills has many plants so when they choose to expand their products lines they have options. This time, as they ramp up production of their Larabar fruit and nut bars, they chose the Belvidere plant because of the support GM gets from the community and […]
By Anne Eickstadt Editor Sunday, May 20, dawned cloudy, cold, and rainy but the precipitation stopped well before the 2 p.m. scheduled start of the Grasshopper Sweet Clover 4-H Club’s annual Memorial Day celebration at Lawrenceville Cemetery. The cemetery, located on Russellville Road just off Lawrenceville Road, Garden Prairie, holds […]
Ag Communications, Winnebago-Boone Farm Bureau We are halfway through the month of May and for anyone in school, that means summer is near. For some of them, that means graduation is near. This year will mark four years since I have graduated high school and a whopping one whole semester […]
By Anne Eickstadt Editor As part of a statewide campaign to place portraits of Abraham Lincoln in county courthouses throughout Illinois, on May 4 a high quality portrait was unveiled at the Boone County Courthouse. The original of this image was taken in Springfield by photographer Alexander Hesler on June […]
Registrations for Flora Grange’s 17th Annual Safety Town Day Camp are now being accepted. The four-day camp is free for children aged five through eight. The camp will take place at the Boone County Fairgrounds at the main dining hall at 8847 Rte. 76 from Tuesday, June 12 to Friday, […]