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By Margaret Downing REPORTER At the Feb. 20 Loves Park City Council meeting, Mayor Darryl Lindberg presented a plaque to Loves Park businessman Norman Chen (Chen’s Restaurant), which is closing after 40 years business on N. Second St. Lindberg gave the plaque in recognition of Chen’s business and contributions to […]
Zac Denny, a native of Machesney Park, Ill., and member of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater wrestling team, was one of three Warhawks to win individual conference titles at the 2017 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship on Friday in Platteville, Wis. The Warhawks totaled 108 points to post their eighth straight […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER The Wall of Fame at Harlem High School has been honoring athletes for the past 91 years. First to be recognized were Harold Schoonover and Harry Schoonover, both for track, in 1926. The first female inductee was softball player Sandy Reed, in 1975. The first boys […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER There was plenty of drama Saturday afternoon as the 2016-17 girls state bowling championship wound down at The Cherry Bowl. 1. Team-wise, Harlem was leading the one and only remaining challenger, Lockport Township, by 28 pins with 10 games left to bowl. 2. Individually, Harlem sophomore […]
On Thursday, Feb. 16, at about 9 a.m. a Loves Park officer attempted to stop a vehicle allegedly being dri-ven eastbound at 50 MPH in a 30 MPH speed zone on Riverside Blvd. The driver accelerated and drove over a center median near Riverside and Clifford Ave., flattening both front […]
By Margaret Downing REPORTER At the Feb. 13 Loves Park City Council meeting, aldermen gave the go ahead to authorizing “professional engineering services for the Riverside Blvd. Bridge Replacement Project” by Wantz Park in the 500 or 600 block of E. Riverside, okaying McClure Engineering of Rockford to do the […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER The village of Machesney Park has taken a step toward implementing the housing blight abatement initiative announced Nov. 7, 2016, by Mayor Jerry Bolin. In a 4-2 vote with one absent Feb. 6, the village board committed up to $300,000 in video gaming revenue, over the […]
By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Harlem’s girls bowling team will be back at the state tournament this weekend, after winning the Bel-videre sectional by a whopping 562 pins last Saturday. Meanwhile, Josh Carter, a junior, and senior Dalton Hambrock qualified for the state wrestling tour-nament by finishing second and third, respectively, […]
On Feb. 5, 2017 at about 3:45 p.m., Rockford Police officers were sent to the Walgreens, 1602 Kishwaukee St., in reference to reports of a man with a gun. Upon arrival, officers met with a female victim who claimed that a subject driving a silver GMC pickup truck had pointed […]
By Margaret Downing REPORTER At the Feb. 6 Loves Park City Council meeting, aldermen heard from Mayor Darryl Lindberg about the upcoming “12th Annual Parks Chamber and Loves Park Lions Club Breakfast.” The breakfast and Business Expo are set for Saturday, Feb. 18 in the city’s municipal building. The Lions […]
