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The Stockton Lady Blackhawks are young – very young. So young in fact, that whenever they sub their starters out (like in a blow out win over West Carroll) the five remaining girls on the floor are all freshmen. So, it was understandable that the Blackhawks would struggle when they faced the full court pressure of the RR/SM Wildcats on their home floor. They did ... repeatedly. In fact, of the 48 times the Blackhawks faced the full court pressure of the Wildcats, they ended up turning the ball o...
The stands were packed, the fans were into the contest and the atmosphere would convince you that you were watching a Sectional final. But the best part of all – both the Aquin Bulldogs and Orangeville Broncos brought their 'A' games to put on one exciting game of basketball. With 1:10 to play in the game, Bronco guard Nadalee Doyle drained what everyone thought was a dagger three point bomb to put the Broncos up 57-46. "She's been hot lately," said Whitney Sullivan. "She puts up the shot and y...
Hi Dan, Thanks for your very detailed report on Freeport City Council deliberations in Village Voices. Did you tape record it? Sadly, our J-S newspaper, which is better known here as Our Daily Disappointment, contains extremely little local news. Actually, 99% of the papers' content merely consists of warmed-over Rockford news – which happened to be originally written to appear in the Rockford Star rag or Gannet's sister newspaper, USA Today. Thanks again, Dick Shouer Freeport Hey Dan, A couple names from Aquin to add to the 1000 point list w...
Lena-Winslow/Stockton 70.0 Durand 3.0 132: Double Forfeit 138: Arrison Bauer (LWS) over Mark Nevdal (D) (Fall 1:30) 144: Karl Hubb (LWS) win by forfeit 150: John Mensendike (LWS) over Will Stahl (D) (Fall 2:58) 157: Jared Dvorak (LWS) win by forfeit 165: Brady Haas (LWS) win by forfeit 175: Eli Larson (LWS) win by forfeit 190: Jeremiah Luke (LWS) win by forfeit 215: Michael Haas (LWS) over Erik Kormoczy (D) (Fall 3:06) 285: Gannon Dunker (LWS) over Grant Johnson (D) (Fall 0:33) 106: Kameron Rowe (LWS) win by forfeit 113: David Prater (LWS) win...
Werner Named To Dean's List Upper Iowa University is pleased to announce the Dean's List for the Fall 2023 semester. To be honored, the undergraduate must have earned a minimum 3.50 GPA and be enrolled as a full-time student. Among those named to the Dean's List was Benjamin Werner, a Industrial Technology major from Scales Mound, IL. About Upper Iowa University Founded in 1857, Upper Iowa University is a private, nonprofit university providing undergraduate and graduate degree programs to roughly 5,500 students-nationally and...
Bob Peters Jr., the owner of the Railside Bar in Lena, and his sister Becky Peters, might come across as loving people, but few people know the nightmare that continues to haunt them both. On November 12, 1992, their father, Bob Peters, was brutally murdered during a robbery at his store in downtown Freeport, Bob's Gun Shop. The three men who committed the crime were caught, William Keene, Michael Hoover and Anthony Ehlers, were convicted in court and sentenced to the death penalty. But when...
You can save a life at the American Red Cross Blood Drive on February 8 from 12:30 pm to 5:30 pm at the Scales Mound School Ag Building, located in the parking lot behind the school. For the best service, please make an appointment at 800-733-2767 or at https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive. As a bonus for your time, donors will receive a $20 Amazon gift card and the Food Science class will be serving soup and snacks following the donation. There is currently a significant shortage of blood product available in the U.S. Current...
SSM Health Monroe Clinic Medical Group Medical Assistant, Bree Schneider, has been named the newest recipient of the BEE Award. Bree serves patients at our clinic in Freeport on Kiwanis Drive. Bree was nominated by fellow Freeport Medical Assistant, Erin Foster. Her nomination shared, "Bree is an exceptional team member to our branch, patients and staff. In January 2020, our family was delivered some devastating news, your child has cancer. Bree and the whole clinic were the "normal" to the nigh...
You can’t make everybody happy. You’re not a taco. We have a friend, Ed, who served in combat in Vietnam. We first met about 8 years ago. When he found out I was a pastor, he said that he wrote God out of his life when he was on the battlefield in Vietnam. My wife and I invited him and his wife to church. She was happy to join us when she could, but Ed wasn’t much interested, although he was a bit curious. Then one day he came up with the idea that he would come to church and afterward, we wo...
Ever have something pop up that immediately brings back memories? We got a press release in regarding the upcoming 4H Summer Camp, and while at first the headline “Change Your Child’s Life” hit me as a bit of an overstatement, the more memories of my childhood, and trips to summer camp each year, flooded my brain – the headline is spot on. When I was a kid, my parents would send my older brother, sister and I off for a week at Camp Tecumseh in Brookston, Indiana. They would separate everyon...
Mounds View/Freeport LaDelle Elaine (Haug) Mackeben, 86 LaDelle Elaine (Haug) Mackeben, 86, of Mounds View passed away on January 6, 2024. She was born on September 5, 1937 in Hanover Township, Illinois, to parents Leo E. and Winifred (Monnier) Haug. LaDelle is survived by her husband Don, children Randall, Deanna Roy, and Michael (Lisa), grandchildren Natasha (John) Jakway, Sarah (Max) Morris, and Jack, great-grandson Macklin Morris, sisters Merilynn Ross and Phyllis Hermann, and sisters-in-law Darlene Haug and Barbara Haug. She is preceded... Full story
Five loan/scholarship programs are available through Midwest Medical Center to provide financial assistance to persons pursuing an education in a medical field at an accredited school of the student’s choice. These programs have been made available to area students by seven benefactors: W. Clifford Stauss, C. Palmer and Eunice Eustice, Josephine Harvey, Richard and Marilyn Eastman, and Melvin E. Young. Persons planning to enter careers in nursing, physical therapy, medicine, and dentistry, as well as careers in related technical fields, such as...
Marriage isn’t a word, it’s a sentence … a life sentence. My husband thinks I’m crazy, but I’m not the one who married me. Marriage is always having someone to pity laugh at your jokes. Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life. I asked my mom what marriage is, and she told me it’s a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who cannot be handled by his parents anymore. I married Miss Right. I just didn’t know her first name was “Always”. It doesn’t matter how many times a married man changes his job; he...
West Galena 5 - 0 20 – 1 East Dubuque 4 - 1 10 – 11 RR/SM 3 - 2 17 – 6 Stockton 3 - 3 12 – 12 Warren 1 - 5 10 – 13 West Carroll 0 - 5 4 – 19 North Orangeville 10 - 0 25 – 1 Aquin 4 - 2 16 – 5 Pecatonica 5 - 3 21 – 5 Lena-Winslow 3 - 4 16 – 8 Dakota 3 - 5 9 – 15 Pearl City 1 - 6 3 – 19 Durand 0 - 6 5 – 11 South Eastland 10 - 0 16 – 9 AFC 6 - 2 15 – 8 Forreston 5 - 5 6 – 17 Amboy 3 - 4 11 – 6 Polo 2 - 4 9 – 11 Milledgeville 1 - 5 1 – 15 Fulton 0 - 7 2 – 15 Last Week’s Results Warren 59 Potosi 49 RR/SM 51 Benton 23 Pecatonica 51 Durand 18 Eastlan...
Sitting in on the Freeport City Council Meeting Tuesday night was a chore. In fact, roughly an hour into the meeting, the famous quote from the movie Billy Madison refused to leave my brain. "At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." I've been to thousands of council or board meetings,...
Happy New Year! The Greater Freeport Partnership is the place where people come together to advocate and work toward great things for Freeport and Stephenson County. Our talented team and great volunteers work in the areas of economic development, business and entrepreneur support, tourism, and events. Looking ahead, we want to share a short digest of projects and initiatives that are upcoming in 2024 and ways you can get involved. In January, we will launch the Business Academy for Small...
As I write this column it is Thursday, January 18 and it is 14 degrees out, which is much warmer than the beginning of the week. The beginning of the week brought canceled school, extracurriculars and office closures. The Farm Bureau continued our normal routine, but as I drove between Stephenson and Carroll Counties, I thought about our farmers who even though at times the temperature was negative 17 degrees, our dedicated farmers worked diligently to care for their livestock. Their commitment...
Registration for 4-H Camp 2024 is open! 4-H Camp is set for June 9-13, 2024, at Rock River Christian Camp, Polo, IL. Sign up today to get your child in on all the amazing fun! 4-H Camp is a five-day, four-night residential camping experience that is conducted cooperatively by University of Illinois Extension staff in Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside and Winnebago Counties and the professional staff at RRCC. Historically, parents have sent their children to...
West Galena 6 - 1 15 – 9 East Dubuque 6 - 1 14 – 11 Scales Mound 4 - 2 18 – 5 Warren 2 - 3 8– 12 Stockton 2 - 5 6 – 14 River Ridge 1 - 4 12 – 9 West Carroll 0 - 5 0 – 17 North Pecatonica 5 - 0 19 – 4 Lena-Winslow 5 - 2 15 – 6 Dakota 5 - 2 11 – 12 Durand 2 - 3 14 – 7 Oville/Aquin 1 - 5 6 – 15 Pearl City 0 - 6 8 – 14 South Eastland 7 - 0 17 – 7 Polo 5 - 1 12 – 8 Fulton 4 - 1 13 – 7 Forreston 3 - 4 7 – 14 Milledgeville 2 - 4 6 – 12 AFC 0 - 6 3 – 20 Amboy 0 - 5 2 – 14 Last Week’s Results Lena-Winslow 57 Durand 30 Pearl City 54 Stockton 36 South Bel...
The Pecatonica MLK Tournament last weekend brought the top four teams in our power ranking all together to compete for the title – and while there were several strong 2A and even 3A teams also competing – when all was said and done, the top three places were all claimed by 1A schools from our region. Eastland 42 Galena 39 The best opening round contest featured the Cougars and Pirates. Early on, it was the Pirates in control as Connor Glasgow and Kaden Hauber both hitting big three point bom...
The Galena ARC is offering several art, pottery, music, and cooking classes this winter for adults. Visit us online to learn more about the following classes and workshops and how to register: GalenaARC.org Join ARC pottery instructor and local artist Stephanie O'Shaughnessy in an adult 5-week evening pottery wheel workshop in the ARC Pottery Studio starting Thursday, February 22 from 6-8pm. Workshop is also open to high-school students. This workshop is for beginners or those with some...
