Post-Journal

Team Jensen pulls major upset in HCC softball tournament

Team Jensen pulls major upset in HCC softball tournament

By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Team Jensen finished third in a field of four during this year’s regular season of the Harlem Community Center baseball and softball summer program. Team Hawkinson won the Coach Pitch Girls Softball Division championship with a perfect 12-0 record. Against third place Jensen they scored victories […]

 
 

Two arrested for liquor thefts, trespassing

Two arrested for liquor thefts, trespassing

On Wednesday, Aug. 3, two Loves Park police officers saw a picture of a man on the front door of Mobil, 6224 N. Second St. Along with the picture, Mobil posed the question if anyone knew this man, who was allegedly a suspect in a theft. The officers recognized the […]

 
 

Loves Park Police arrest two on drug, weapon charges

Loves Park Police arrest two on drug, weapon charges

On Monday, Aug. 1, at around 1:42 a.m., a vehicle was stopped in the 5100 block of Rockberry Road. During the stop, a K-9 was deployed to sniff around the outside of the vehicle. A subsequent search of the vehicle was conducted. The driver, Maurice TL Buchanan, 20, of Rockford, […]

 
 

Plenty of competition likely in 2017 MP village board election

Plenty of competition likely in 2017 MP village board election

By Bob Balgemann REPORTER There could be some new faces on the village board following the April 2017 election. Newcomers wanting four-year terms on the board are Joe Seipts in District 1 and Heather Kelley in District 3. Kelley will be challenging first-term Incumbent Trustee James Kidd, who is running […]

 
 

Village sides with residents, rejects plan to build duplex

Village sides with residents, rejects plan to build duplex

By Bob Balgemann REPORTER Plans to build a duplex on Wayne Drive once again have brought varied opinions from decision-makers in the village. This time it was the village board in the spotlight and it voted 4-2 July 18, on first reading and with one absent, to deny a rezoning […]

 
 

‘Pink Heals’ offers support to those with a serious disease

‘Pink Heals’ offers support to those with a serious disease

By Margaret Downing REPORTER Connie and Jim Lynch met and started dating when they were students at Harlem High School. Jim, later an assistant principal at the school, graduated in 1962, Connie in 1964. The couple married after getting out of school and went on to become parents to three […]

 
 

Stateline Fury 16U Red wins national championship

Stateline Fury 16U Red wins national championship

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 […]

 
 

Police promote community relations with kids in Wantz Park

Police promote community relations with kids in Wantz Park

Loves Park Police Officers stopped by Wantz Park on Tuesday, July 26 to deliver popsicles that one of the officers donated. With all the negative news about police officers over the recent past, it was remarkable to see dozens and dozens of excited kids rush the police car. Excited to […]

 
 

Korean War vets hold state reunion in Rockford

Korean War vets hold state reunion in Rockford

By Margaret Downing REPORTER On July 16, Deputy Council General Jae-woong Lee addressed approximately 45 Korean War veteran and their spouses at the Korean War Veterans Association Annual State Reunion held this year at the Holiday Inn and Hoffman House in Rockford. Deputy Council Lee had this to say in […]

 
 

Construction to begin on Alpine Road multi-use path

  Beginning, construction crews were scheduled to begin construction on a new multi-use path along Alpine Road Monday, July 25. Path improvements will be constructed along the west side of Alpine Road starting behind Lowe’s and running south to an area just north of the Schnuck’s at Harlem and Alpine […]

 
 
 
 
 
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