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A gas and convenience store in northwest Illinois is feeling the love after selling a $400,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket! Loves Park Clark Gas, located at 5710 N. 2nd St. in Loves Park, sold the winning ticket for the Thursday, March 24 evening drawing. The ticket matched all five […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Harlem High School’s boys and girls bowling teams have continued their lengthy string of successful appearances in the state tournament. And the competitive dance team has become a presence in the NIC-10, as well as the state level. The bowling teams each finished second this year […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER NIC-10 baseball season gets closer, with Hononegah on the horizon After having played five non-conference baseball games during the early part of the 2022 season, Harlem’s Huskies found bad weather catching up with them. Games the end of last week at home against McHenry and at […]
Only six years after opening his first Firehouse Subs restaurant, franchisee Joe Fallin has earned an Axe Award for Central Franchisee of the Year. In the Firehouse Subs system of more than 1,210 restaurants, this award recognizes Fallin as an exemplary business owner and operator of his three restaurants in […]
Ashley VanSickle was pleasantly surprised last Thursday when she was presented with a 2022 Golden Apple Award while in her classroom. VanSickle, of Rockford, has taught technology in Germany and in an elementary school, but the past four of her nine years of teaching has been at Harlem Middle School, […]
By Margaret Downing REPORTER The Machesney Park Army Reserve Center off of Hwy. 173 in Machesney Park welcomed two Chinook CH-47 helicopters on March 10. The helicopters arrived to transport soldiers of the 469th Engineering Co., CEC-I, to Camp Dodge, Iowa for training. Per information obtained from Wikipedia, the Boeing Chinook CH-47 […]
The City of Rockford announced last week the creation of a Brovary Relief Fund to help support humanitarian aid for our Sister City in Ukraine. Rockford has enjoyed a Sister City relationship with Brovary since 1995, just four years after Ukraine declared independence from the former Soviet Union. As the […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER March has arrived and with that comes the hope of the warmer weather that accompanies the spring track and field season. Harlem’s boys track team is winding down the return of the indoor track schedule that included competition against both the more familiar NIC-10 opponents, and […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Harlem High School graduate Mya Turnmire wrestled for the Huskies in a time when participation by girls was strictly as an individual. There were no high school girls teams in Illinois and consistently, no state tournament for girls. But she had her share of successes and […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Harlem junior Jeremy Mueller will be in suburban Westmont this weekend, competing in the 2021-22 state swimming and diving meet. Mueller made it out of the Byron sectional Feb. 19 by eclipsing the state qualifying standard of 1:56.89, with a 1:55.34 in the 200-yard individual medley […]
