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Dear Dan, Thank you for your recent article on the beginning of your paper “Village Voices”. We enjoy your many articles and human touch stories. Although, we don’t have school age children anymore, we appreciate your coverage of sports, theater and other school activities. We enjoy your column on home life and family. Even though you are a big man, you are much bigger in caring for your community with your endearing paper. Thank you for the many hours you put into your work. We appreciate you! God bless you. Love through Christ, Dorothy Wire...
West Fulton 9 - 1 14 – 8 Galena 7 - 3 11 – 10 Stockton/Warren 6 - 4 15 – 6 East Dubuque 6 - 4 8 – 16 SM/RR 2 - 8 7 – 17 West Carroll 0 - 10 1 – 22 North Orangeville 10 - 0 26 – 2 Lena-Winslow 6 - 4 18 – 9 Durand 5 - 5 12 – 9 Pearl City 5 - 5 15 – 12 Dakota 4 - 6 13 – 6 Pecatonica 0 - 10 2 – 21 South Forreston 10 - 0 20 – 5 Milledgeville 6 - 4 9 – 11 Polo 6 - 4 10 – 14 Amboy 4 - 6 6 – 12 Eastland 4 - 6 7 – 12 AFC 0 - 10 1 – 17 Last Week’s Results Lena-Winslow 9 Stockton/Warren 3 Orangeville 5 Forreston 3 Lena-Winslow 20 SM/RR 2 Polo 5 Pecatonica...
I begin this week by asking a simple question, that in reality is not so simple when you think about it. What is a dog? I mean, can you describe a dog? Some might say, “A four-legged carnivorous mammal with floppy ears and a tail.” But that doesn’t fit because not all dogs have floppy ears, and I swear my family once had a dog who loved grapefruit! You can try to look up “dog” in the dictionary, but even they can’t lock it down in spite of multiple paragraphs all trying to answer one simple ques...
The ordinance had been passed a couple of months ago, but the signs throughout town that actually pointed out what roads in Lena were approved truck routes just finished being put up – which means that enforcement of the new regulations can now begin. The issue is quite simple – road repair. Lena was having a growing problem with road repairs being needed throughout town, and the biggest reason the roads were falling apart was due to large trucks using rods that were never intended to handle tha...
Stephenson County Treasurer Stephanie Helms announces that property tax bills were scheduled to be mailed out to owners on May 12th. The first installment of the 2022 (payable in 2023) property tax bills is due on Friday, June 23rd. The second installment will be due on Friday, September 1st. More than 25,600 bills were mailed representing $83,147,000 in property taxes billed. The tax bill format is dramatically different this year. The Treasurer has transitioned from a legal-sized self-seal mailer, to a letter-sized bill mailer in a standard...
Graduation season is upon us. Time to spread your wings and fly. The world is waiting. There is great anticipation in the air as the new graduates put their hands to the plow and don’t look back. It’s that time of year when the invitations arrive in the mail and we start planning to attend the graduation parties. We get a lot of pleasure out of attending those events. When I graduated from high school, my parents invited the relatives and a few close friends over to the house after the cer...
Honor our fallen warriors and contribute to the continuing needs of our veterans on National Poppy Day®, the Friday before Memorial Day, May 26th, when members of American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) Unit 1014 distribute bright red poppies in exchange for a donation. The Flanders Fields poppy has become an internationally known and recognized symbol of the lives sacrificed in war and the hope that none died in vain. The American Legion Family called upon Congress to proclaim the Friday before...
Orangeville Keith Edwin Wolf, 93 Keith Edwin Wolf, 93, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at the Monroe Hospice Home. Keith was born on September 21, 1929 in Monroe, WI to Kermit and Hilda (Stauffacher) Wolf. He married Gladys Neuenschwander on June 1, 1953. Their 70th wedding anniversary would have been next month. Keith was a lifelong farmer in the rural Orangeville area, where his true passion was dairy farming. He also sharpened mower blades for his family and friends. Keith enjoyed traveling with Gladys. Keith was active in... Full story
For more than a century, the red shield bearing the name of The Salvation Army has represented help for anyone in the toughest of times. Questions are never asked and judgments are never given. The philosophy has remained simple and the same - people need help, and the Salvation Army will serve without discrimination. Hopefully, the assistance needed is only temporary, but if return visits are necessary that's fine too and the Salvation Army will continue to offer that help in a variety of ways...
High School Graduation – where finishing one of the easiest and most basic parts of life is suddenly a huge deal. For my graduation speech, I would like to thank the Internet, Google, Wikipedia, Microsoft Office and Copy/Paste. Some people graduate with honors, others are just honored to graduate. Now that I’m graduating … I just hope this B.S. pays off. I graduated. So, now I’m like smart and stuff. The first call I got after I graduated was my University asking for a donation. You may have graduated, but you’re not finished with Show and...
The community and friends of Highland Community College are invited to join the 2023 graduates and their families in celebrating our 60th annual Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 20, at Highland Community College, 2998 W. Pearl City Rd., Freeport, Ill. The ceremony is outdoors on the Highland campus. Commencement will take place in the courtyard between the Marvin-Burt Liberal Arts Center and Natural Science Center. Guest parking is located in lot D on the south side of campus outside Building N, which contains the Natural...
By Anita Mau (Dan Stevens was up north for his granddaughter’s golden birthday, and director Jamie Graf did not want him at dress rehearsal because the cast was not ready. But thankfully, a loyal reader (Anita Mau) who heard about Dan’s absence, took it upon herself to fill in – and did an admirable job, we must admit! Unfortunately, photos that were promised, never arrived.) I heard that you missed the EPC Drama Department performance of “Bye Bye Birdie”. I have absolutely no qualifications to give a review, but thought that the kids dese...
West East Dubuque 8 - 2 17 – 12 Fulton 6 - 4 15 – 8 Warren/Stockton 6 - 4 13 – 8 Galena 5 - 5 11 – 9 RR/SM 5 - 5 13 – 11 West Carroll 0 - 10 0 – 18 North Lena-Winslow 8 - 2 14 – 6 – 1 Pearl City 8 - 2 15 – 9 Dakota 7 - 3 13 – 7 Pec/Durand 4 - 6 5 – 16 Aquin 3 - 7 4 – 13 Orangeville 0 - 10 2 – 20 South Forreston 8 - 2 19 – 9 AFC 6 - 4 13 – 8 Eastland 6 - 4 16 – 10 Amboy 6 - 4 11 – 10 Milledgeville 3 - 7 5 – 12 Polo 1 - 9 3 – 16 Last Week’s Results Warren/Stockton 9 Lena-Winslow 2 RR/SM 10 Lena-Winslow 1 Pec/Durand 3 Polo 1 Forreston 6 Marengo 4...
Baseball Orangeville 9 Benton/Shulls 8 A long and difficult season just got a lot brighter for the Orangeville Broncos as they played their best game of the year – making a rally back to defeat Benton/Shullsburg with four runs in the bottom of the sixth to close the gap to 8-7, then two more runs in the bottom of the seventh for the walk-off win – only their second of the season. Milledgeville 8 Lena-Winslow 5 The Panther implosion over the last week of the season ended with their most fru...
