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We got a tremendous response on our Best of All Time survey where we had readers vote for who they thought were the best male and female athletes from the school districts we cover. Over 1200 people voted! A number that boggles the mind when we stop to think about it. But as everyone knows, I am also a theater geek, so we are now proud to present our online survey for which shows you loved the most from the eight different Theater Departments that participate in the Voice Awards. Go to our...
East Dubuque Varsity Girls Basketball coach, Scott Schaber, resigned his position last week. He is stepping down after three years with the program in order to follow his son’s athletic careers as they enter High School. Schaber had previously coached the Galena Boy’s program, and was well known throughout the NUIC. During his three years at East Dubuque he won the conference title in 2018 – the first for the program in 25 years – and also claimed a Regional crown the same season, which was only the second in school history. Overall, the team c...
We are all in this together! The Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation (JDCF) is taking COVID-19 very seriously. While we have cancelled our upcoming events, our six nature preserves remain open for those needing an escape to nature. New this week is a scavenger hunt at our Casper Bluff Land and Water Reserve, 870 S Pilot Knob Rd, Galena. Please practice social distancing while taking the kids in search of the six clues on this hunt. A numbered tree cookie will mark the correct spot for each clue...
“Work Work Work” I got the rototiller out the other day and tilled the garden. It sat in the machine shed all winter, but still started on the second pull. It’s one of those tines in back tiller. You can hold on to it with one hand and walk beside it while it tills so as not to leave footprints in the freshly churned soil. (Spoiler alert: it’s not always that simple but it looks good in the magazine advertisements). My wife was out there last week on that 70 degree day getting her seeds in the...
I think the world has reached a new low. I have witnessed stupidity in my life. I have myself done some incredibly stupid things – from the simple, to the monumental “what were you thinking” moments. I have seen psychotic street people in New York City having arguments with themselves as they walked down the street. And I have seen some incredibly inappropriate actions take place that were deliberately done to shock those who witnessed them. But nothing – nothing in all of my years living...
Stockton Earl J. “Tip” Tipton, 89 Earl J. “Tip” Tipton, age 89, of Stockton, IL passed away Thursday, April 09, 2020 at home. He was born August 9, 1930 the son of the late Arthur N. and Louisa M. (Streicher) Tipton. Tip married Darlene O’Neill on June 26, 1954. Darlene passed away June 23, 2017. Tip grew up on a farm and drove truck most of his life, mainly for LCL and Jewel Rentar. He was a member of the Stockton American Legion and Teamsters. Tip enjoyed Nascar, boating, snowmobiling, spending time with his family, especially his grandchil... Full story
The Freeport Community Foundation (FCF) announced today, in partnership with the United Way of Northwest Illinois (UWNWIL), that it will distribute $200,000 in emergency grant funding to northwest Illinois nonprofits via an online application process. Funds from the NWIL COVID-19 Response Fund (NWILCRF) will benefit nonprofits and programs serving the most vulnerable populations of Stephenson, Jo Daviess and Carroll counties affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fifty percent of the funds being distributed ($100,000) were awarded to the FCF as par...
Readers suggested we resume our "Looking Back" feature to help fill the void left by a lack of local sports, so ... Broncos Finally Earn One The curse of being a really strong team in any sport is that you aren't often challenged. Take softball and the Orangeville Broncos. Sure, hey were 10-0 coming into their weekend tournament, but none of those games had been closer than six runs, and the average margin of victory was over the ten run rule! So, the question many people were asking was ......
Two local businesses are working to help their community during the COVID-19 slowdown, teaming up to produce locally sourced hand sanitizer. The Lena-made hand sanitizer will debut Friday with a special social distancing-compliant event from 2 – 7 p.m. at the Lena Brewing Company’s taproom, 9416 W. Wagner Road in Lena. Lena Brewing Company, which has been brewing craft beer in Lena since 2015, is using Adkins Energy 190-proof ethanol to produce a special run of FDA-grade hand sanitizer to help local first responders and residents avoid the COVI...
Although the Illinois High School Association's March Madness is now over and state champions have been recognized in all four classes for girls, the awards are still coming. COUNTRY Financial is proud to sponsor high school teams and athletes throughout the year, including the IHSA State Basketball Tournaments for the last 42 years. In addition, COUNTRY has served as the sole sponsor of the IHSA Three Point Showdown since it began in 1992. COUNTRY Financial Representative Rhett Coatney...
After five years as Aquin's Athletic Director, Mr. Berin Jackson resigned his position effective, Friday, May 1, 2020. "In my 5 years as the Aquin Athletic Director, we have accomplished many great things together. Successful playoff runs in several sports, hosting many regional and sectional tournament games, adding basketball tournaments and shootouts, and upgrades to facilities which include resurfacing the gym floor, adding stat panels to the gym scoreboard and new LED lights inside and...
People have expressed how much they enjoy the inclusion of some humor on our pages, so we’re going to keep it going with this set of jokes sent in to us by math students from Pearl City. What are teachers when they're taking attendance? (Absent-minded!) Why is it sad that parallel lines have so much in common? (Because they'll never meet) How do the fish get to school? (By Octobus) Knock Knock Who's there? A broken pencil A broken pencil wh- Nevermind it's pointless Why do plants hate math? (Because it gives them square roots.) What does a b...
The Greater Freeport Partnership is pleased to announce the hiring of Mark Williams as its executive director to lead the organization in promoting and supporting business and communities in the City of Freeport and Stephenson County. Williams has more than thirty years of experience in the profession of economic development; as a manager, director and executive director; at the regional public/private and local municipal level; and in rural and urban communities. Most recently, he has been...
I’ve been known to attract some online criticism from time to time. However, one of the more perplexing reasons I have caught grief while serving in elected office is the reaction I often receive when mentioning a term I talk about a lot - “Northwest Illinois Values”. We don’t talk about values enough as a society, in my humble opinion. We talk about it so little, in fact, that my use of the term has often brought forth a fear that my values may not match your values and that is a reason...
The Eagle Nature Foundation has just released the rules for its 2020 Bald Eagle Essay Contest to be held during its Fall Eagle Fest in Galena, IL on Sept. 19. This essay contest is open to all students from both public and private schools, as well as home schooled students. The essay must be titled “What the Bald Eagle Means to Me” and be 500 words or less. The contest has two divisions, high school and junior high school. Each division will have four winners: 1st place—$100, 2nd place—$50, 3rd place—$25 and 4th—$10. The school with the first p...
Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would see the massive response to our online survey for the Best of All Time athletes in our region. In just two weeks, we got 1279 people voting on the survey! (And the system counts by ip addresses, so unless you voted once from you laptop, once from your phone, and once from you ipad ... that means 1279 people voted! As far as school responses, Eastland had the highest participation as 31.3% of all voters filled out the Eastland section. Stockton...
The Illinois State Police filed emergency rules this week to address renewals of Firearm Owner Identification and Concealed Carry Licenses during the COVID-19 epidemic. These rules are designed to provide FOID card holders and CCL relief from the renewal requirements during the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. These rule changes are as follows: · FOID card holders, who submit their renewal application will remain valid during the duration of the state’s disaster proclamation and for a period of 12 months following the termination of the disaster,...
