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While the biggest news of the Spring is that both Baseball and Softball will actually get a post season tournament, a preview of what the Sectional finals might look like was put on display in Lena Tuesday afternoon as arguably the two best pitchers in the region battled it out in what can only be described as a gem. Ty Stykel of Aquin has been a stand out athlete for the Bulldogs in every sport, but in baseball he is their superstar – leading the pitching staff while also batting leadoff for t...
While several schools performed their productions via Zoom or other online methods, and Orangeville made sure to keep no more than two performers on stage at any one time for their production, Freeport pulled off a creative production of the classic musical You're A Good Man Charlie Brown outside – using Krape Park's Bandshell for the production. The bandshell itself allowed for perfect levels that Director, Tim Connors, made good use of so that Schroeder's piano was off on one area all by i...
Two Central Players Honored Two Central College players were named to the D3football.com Team of the Week after a 37-19 road victory over Nebraska Wesleyan University last Saturday. Defensive lineman Blade Durbala (senior, Blairstown, Benton HS) was cited, along with cornerback Benjamin Crist (sophomore, Elizabeth, Ill., River Ridge HS). Durbala blocked an extra point and forced a fumble while recording four tackles including 1.5 tackles for loss. It's the second time he received the...
Last weekend, my wife and I visited our daughter and son-in-law in Nashville, Tennessee. They’ve lived there now for over two years. Last year they bought a house on a quiet street in a nice neighborhood. A couple times a week, several of the neighbors will bring their lawn chairs and gather in their driveway and sip ice tea and share everyday stories of their lives. It’s a curious thing - kind of like Mayberry in a way, only not so much. A few weeks ago, a flash flood ravaged their nei...
Stephenson County is participating in National Travel & Tourism Week by highlighting safe events, activities and attractions for both our local and regional audiences from May 2-8. National Travel and Tourism Week (NTTW) is the annual celebration of the travel industry's critical role in driving economic recovery efforts and building the path forward through the theme, "Power of Travel." Tourism was one of the hardest hit industries from the COVID-19 pandemic with a loss of 34 percent of travel-...
My apologies to all area principals, but now that graduation is rapidly approaching and most seniors are out of school - I can now do this column. You see, I knew if I wrote this one too early, I’d get accused of giving students ideas - so my advice to area students ... save this one for next year. The topic, is about senior pranks. At least when I was in school, it was the traditional obligation of the seniors who were leaving school to mark their exit with some form of “prank”. The key is th...
Lena-Winslow/Stockton 52.0 Dixon 26.0 126: Cade Hey (D) over Brady Haas (LWS) (Fall 1:20) 132: Will Weidman (D) over Carson McPeek (LWS) (TF 17-0 5:57) 138: Karl Hubb (LWS) over Austin Hey (D) (Fall 2:28) 145: Jared Dvorak (LWS) over Jace Kastner (D) (Fall 5:13) 152: Simon Rillie (LWS) over Lucas Sheridan (D) (Fall 1:19) 160: Jason Hermann (LWS) over Steven Kitzman (D) (MD 15-2) 170: Case Harmston (LWS) over Quinn Staples (D) (Fall 2:20) 182: Jaden Rice (LWS) over Brady Potter (D) (Fall 3:27)...
Guilty Murder Plea Jo Daviess County State’s Attorney, Chris Allendorf, would like to inform the public of the following information. On April 16, 2021, Joseph L. Wright of Dubuque, Iowa pled guilty as part of a plea agreement to Second Degree Murder. These charges stem from an incident that occurred on April 21, 2019 in East Dubuque, Illinois and resulted in the death of Jennifer L. Miller, 44 of East Dubuque, Illinois. As a result of his plea of guilty, Mr. Wright was sentenced by Judge Michael Bald to 17 years in the Illinois Department o...
Lena Helen L. Roe, 91 Helen L. Roe, 91, of Lena, IL formerly of Rockford, IL passed away on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at the Lena Living Center, with her family by her side. She was born on January 19, 1930 in Lena, IL to William “Bill” and Elizabeth (Brown) Duft. On February 16, 1950 Helen married R. Eugene “Buck” Roe in Freeport, IL. Helen worked for the Northwest Telephone Company in the village of Lena as a telephone operator, and later in life she owned and operated A Touch of Gingerbread in the Victorian Village in Rockford for many years.... Full story
High School is like a free trial on education. Then once you've graduated they say, "Now if you want to continue, pay $50,000." The teacher told us to bring a pencil to class tomorrow ... so what's a pencil? You can take a student's phone away, but you're supposed to give it back to them after class – not sell it on ebay. My teacher isn't qualified for spelling. She spells "U" y-o-u. She spells "BRB" r-e-t-u-r-n, and she spells "BFN" g-o-o-d-b-y-e. Once I learn how to use Google, isn't that all the education I need? Mrs. Anderson, is there s...
I always get asked, so apparently we haven't done a good enough job of letting people know – but all of the photos taken that appear either in the Village Voices, or on our website, are available for free to parents who want them. If you go to our website nwiaccess.com and click on the photo gallery, you can see every shot we took that did or did not make it into the paper. Simply pick out the ones you want and send us an email at [email protected] with the details of what the picture i...
The Freeport Community Foundation (FCF) Board of Directors awarded 15 grants totaling $75,914.72 to 14 regional non-profit organizations that provide a variety of programs and services benefiting residents in Stephenson, Jo Daviess and Carroll counties of Northwest Illinois. Grants were awarded from the organization’s Community Needs/Marvin Unrestricted Fund and the Craig Wilson Trust. Recipients and projects include: Cats Care It's All About the Head $2,000.00 Davis Mental Health Group Community Resource Guide $800.00 Freeport Art Museum V...
Baseball Eastland 13 AFC 3 Cougar batters started off slowly, but heated up in the third inning as they scored 5, 3 and 4 runs over the third, fourth and fifth innings to claim a ten-run rule win over AFC at home. Rogers, Henze and Burkholder loaded the bases in the third inning to set the table. Cropper drove one in with a sac fly, then the Baber twins blew the game open as they reached on an error and a walk – both eventually scoring themselves as Eastland plated five in the inning. On the d...
NUIC North First Team (* = Unanimous Selection) *Tabytha Toelke, Sr – Dakota *Abi Schlueter, So – Dakota *Lucy Arndt, So – Aquin *Savannah Brandt, Jr – Pearl City Falyn McPeek, So – Dakota Elizabeth Conroy, Sr – Durand Jenna Damon, Jr – Durand Second Team Mary Zettle, Jr – Dakota Rhiannon Robertson, Fr – Durand Hailey Dittmar, Sr – Aquin Ava Hiveley, Jr – Aquin Addie DeMichele, Sr – Aquin Maddie Hildebrand, Sr – Aquin Kassidy Humphrey, Sr – Lena-Winslow Maddy Stephan, Sr – Pearl City Au...
