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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 […]
Harlem High School had wrestlers qualify for sectionals. They had one champion and four 2nd place finishers. They will continue their quest to State through the Barrington Sectional on Friday and Saturday. Koletyn Zanoni 1st, Justin Lewis 2nd, Ethan Hagerman 2nd, Marshal Cunz 2nd, Ben Larsen 2nd
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER It came about after village staff was contacted by a charity-gaming operator about hosting a bingo-like raffle on an industrially zoned property in the village. While researching the request, it was determined that there was nothing in the Village Code regulating where bingo, raffles and other […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER A proposal to operate a multi-faceted business out of the former North Park Rental location at 9624 N. Second St. has received support at the first of three stops it has to make in the approval process. There were few questions Jan. 24 during the planning […]
Dino-lovers, rock collectors, and fossil diggers unite for an internationally attended festival. Our audience includes scientists and researchers, aspiring scientists, students, paleo-lovers, and even dino-loving kiddos! Many of the talks focus on our speakers’ cutting edge research and amazing new finds. Burpee is proud to present PaleoFest 2022 on March […]
