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By Bob Balgemann Reporter Four of Harlem’s seven winter sports teams have opened their abbreviated seasons with victories. The boys and girls varsity basketball teams traveled to Boylan Catholic and came home with a pair of wins. The inexperienced Huskies with just no returning starters routed the Titans, 67-50. One […]
State Senator Dave Syverson (R-Rockford) is exited to share that the Hard Rock Casino will be advancing to the next step of development after the Illinois Gaming Board announced their preliminary decision on the Rockford casino license application on Feb. 4. “After 20 years of working to make this casino […]
The Anderson family stopped by the Harlem-Roscoe Fire Dept. with Henry to let us know how he was doing and drop of some breakfast pizza last week. Henry was pulled out a house fire by Harlem-Roscoe and Rockton Fire crews in January and has made a full recovery. Teamwork helped […]
Motorists traveling through downtown Rockford in the past couple of weeks have had their curiosity piqued by an unknown snow sculptor who has been hard at work on a vacant lot at N. Church and John streets. His first creation there is a magnificent mermaid, and that was followed by […]
This story was originally published for Bradley magazine. December graduates Giselle Barraza ’20 and Emily Godin ’20 have a lifelong passion for helping others. Both sought a career where they could make a difference in people’s lives and discovered social work in college. Neither could have imagined their senior practicum […]
The Rockford Fire Department was recently selected by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to participate in the second phase of a pilot program to build a digital community risk assessment (CRA) tool. Aligned to NFPA 1300, Standard on Community Risk Assessment and Community Risk Reduction Plan Development, the tool, […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter Second of 2 Parts In looking back at how the village’s five tax increment financing (TIF) districts fared during a difficult 2020, Village Administrator James Richter II had good things to say about all of them. He gave his first annual presentation in December to the […]
Rock Cut State Park is slated to receive $900,000 in state funding for a variety of critical infrastructure improvements from a grant secured by State Rep. John M. Cabello (R-Machesney Park). State officials are reaching out to Rock Cut State Park’s Site Superintendent Brad Brown to finalize the formal process […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter A requested special use permit to allow a firearms assembly and repair business at 9663 N. Alpine Road, between Field Fastener and Quest Packing and Shipping, has received two positive recommendations. It will be considered by the village board at Monday night’s meeting. The new business […]
Thank you to all of the men and women of the Rockford Park District Police department for always being there to protect and serve. Two members of our Rockford Park District Police department moved up in rank. Congratulations to Detective Teri Johnson who was promoted to Sergeant and is the […]
