BOONE COUNTY – The Boone County Sheriff’s Office recently completed extra patrols for the Labor Day Holiday. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office has a Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation. This grant allows the Sheriff’s Office to hire back Deputies for extra patrols. These patrols […]
By Lisa Rodgers Reporter BOONE COUNTY – According to Webster’s Dictionary and Daily Writing Tips (www.dailywriting tips.com/rhubarb-is-not-just-a-vegetable/), the word rhubarb may be used in the context of a vegetable, controversy, murmurous background noise, and in baseball. Quotes provided from the Boone County Health Department (BCHD) were obtained from a public […]
MINNEAPOLIS – General Mills announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its Green Giant and Le Sueurvegetable businesses to B&G Foods, Inc., (NYSE: BGS) for approximately $765 million in cash, subject to an inventory adjustment at closing. The resulting sale of Green Giant will lead to a lay-off […]
By Rocco Wagner Baseball Coach BOONE COUNTY – A partial travel team with league play is looking to fill several positions for the spring of 2016 12-year-old-team. Several boys from Belvidere are already on the team which also includes a coach from the Belvidere area. Our baseball team is looking […]