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Stateline Fury’s 16U Red fast-pitch softball team battled 100 degree temperatures in Overland Park, Kansas to win the 2016 USSSA (United States Specialty Sports Association) National Championship this past weekend. The team went 11-1 and outscored their opponents with a combined score of 87-20 including six shutout victories. The tournament […]
By Marianne Mueller REPORTER Summer seems to have moved at an extremely quick pace and it is odd to be thinking of the start of a new school season. It is even stranger to think that this weekend will commemorate me being out of high school for 30 years. […]
By Marianne Mueller REPORTER Six-year Papillary Cancer survivor April Kunzelmen has been reaching out to others in a unique fashion for the past six years. Inspired by her own personal experience Kunzelmen started Chemo Cargo to help others facing what can result in long, boring and stressful days of […]
By Marianne Mueller REPORTER Tyler Levine just celebrated his eighth birthday on July 16. This particular birthday proved to be extra special. At age six Tyler was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma on Dec. 18, 2014. Levine endured radiation and Chemotherapy treatments. He finished his treatments in August of last […]
By Marianne Mueller REPORTER Parking issues, concerns and ideas were addressed at a public forum on July 13 at the Rockton Village Hall. Connected with the meeting is a study being coordinated by SLATS- Stateline Area Transportation Study. Village President Dale Adams is part of the steering committee for […]
By Marianne Mueller REPORTER In 2009 brother and sister Gavin and Taytm Mylin were diagnosed with Alport Syndrome. Alport affects one in 50,000 children and is an inherited and progressive disease. Kidney disease, hearing loss, and loss of eyesight are all symptoms found in carriers. Eyesight issues may be […]
Volunteers are needed to walk the shorelines, and others with canoes, kayaks or boats to pull out the trash that inevitably finds its way into the Rock River during the Rock River Sweep from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 10. It does seem we are having an effect, […]
By Jean Seegers REPORTER Roscoe Trustees continued to debate moving forward on approving the village police department at the July 19, village meeting. Village Administrator Pat DeGrave urged the board members to make a decision or file the plans away for the future. Trustee Lindsey Swanson wanted to know […]
By Margaret Downing REPORTER At the July 18 South Beloit City Council meeting, commissioners were addressed by resident John Fitzsimmons regarding “the unlawful discharge of firearms” in his neighborhood, which borders the South Bluff Mobile Home Park. He said he had made a complaint in 2012 also, and believes […]
By Jean Seegers REPORTER A party on the prairie was held at Nygren Wetland Preserve, 3190 West Rockton Road on Saturday, July 16. Hundreds of guests gathered under a large open tent for an afternoon of music, a variety of wine and beer samplings, and gourmet honky-tonk picnic cuisine catered […]
