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By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – Habitat for Humanity is an international organization that formed in the 1970s in Americus, Ga. It evolved from a group that decided poverty housing was an issue. More than 300,000 homes have been built in that time, with 108 of them in the […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – It has been said that most people around here are happy if their garbage is picked up on time and snow is cleared from their streets in a timely manner. The village is responsible for plowing residential streets with a private vendor collecting […]
By Margaret Downing Reporter LOVES PARK – After approval by aldermen at the March 23 Loves Park City Council meeting, Mayor Darryl Lindberg swore in the newest addition to the city’s police department. Jerry Pyfer is a 2006 graduate of Harlem High School and replaces a position left vacant in […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – Service drives usually are in commercial or industrial areas. Their purpose is to make it easier for customers and clients to get to a particular building. Not so with the Alpine Road service drive. There only are houses along this short stretch of […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – The North Park Fire Protection District wants to begin providing ambulance to the estimated 15,000 prople it serves. Voters will be asked April 7 to approve a property tax increase of up to .40 to allow the department to purchase two ambulances and […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – Harlem School District 122 is all about helping educate boys and girls so they’re well rounded and ready to be successful, productive adults. To accomplish that end, there’s plenty going on behind the scenes. Members of the Harlemites, graduates of Harlem High School, […]
By Bob Trott Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – Superintendent Dr. Julie Morris, described as quiet, and having integrity and a laser-like focus on the whole child, was recognized at the regular Harlem School Board meeting Monday, March 9, for receiving a Racial Justic Award at a March 3 YWCA Leader Luncheon. […]
By Bob Balgemann Reporter MACHESNEY PARK – A large crowd turned out Saturday at Harlem High School for a snapshot of the community in which they live. Booths were set up in hallways and in the vacated Commons, where students usually eat lunch every weekday. That space was occupied by […]
By Marianne Mueller Reporter LOVES PARK – With warmer weather overhead layers of ice and snow were removed from Olson Lake revealing frigid waters. A total of 518 people were “Freezing for a reason at the 2015 Polar Plunge on Saturday, March 7. A beautiful opening ceremony featured Lisa Hodges […]
By Melanie Bradley Editor MACHESNEY PARK – Loves Park Village Clerk Bob Burden and Machesney Park Village Clerk Lori Mitchell teamed up to get Harlem High School students who will be 18 before the April election registered to vote last Friday. The duo set up a registration table in the […]
