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Aquin administration is pleased to announce the hiring of Korissa Blasing as Aquin's new head volleyball coach. Coach Blasing comes to us with experience from coaching Pearl City's junior high team and most recently, their high school girl's club team. While she is young and this is her first high school coaching job, Coach Blasing has true passion for the sport, is intent on honing her coaching skills, and made it very clear that communication and feedback are essential parts of her coaching...
Apple River State Bank and First Community Bank of Galena recently awarded $1,000 college scholarships to five area high school graduates. - Galena High School: Mackenzie Muehliep, daughter of Damon and Jill Muehleip. Mackenzie will attend Luther College majoring in nursing. - River Ridge High School: Dalton Wachter, son of Mark and Jean Wachter. Dalton will attend Highland Community College and then University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. He plans to major in forestry and wildlife management. -...
Dan, I just wanted to tell you – over the years you have written some very good and sometimes not so good stories in your paper. Some I loved, some I hated, and some I strongly disagreed with – much like most of your subscribers I’m sure. But I just wanted to say, your Point To Ponder sometimes may get overlooked, but this week it was THE best piece you have ever done in my opinion. Maybe I’m biased because I have known Thomas for over 20 years as Kim was my sister’s best friend. I, like many, have been confused, disgusted, disappointed and som...
Timber Lake Playhouse (TLP), the professional summer theatre of northwest Illinois, announced its Summer Education Program with online and onsite offerings for ages 3 through adult. “I’m very excited with the lineup of courses we are planning for our patrons this summer,” said Executive Director, Dan Danielowski. “There are so many possibilities that there is really something for everyone.” Classes at TLP range from modern dance, puppetry, scriptwriting, and private lessons to improv, hip hop, monologue study and discussions with actors pr...
My dad has a sign hanging over his desk that says: “These are the good old days.” So true. For the most part, we tend to look back on certain periods of the past in our lives with favor. These past few days we’ve had beautiful weather. My wife and I were discussing how it reminds us of when we were kids and the endless days of summer when we would work and play for hours in warm sunshine for days on end. We didn’t have to deal with gnats and we didn’t get a torrential downpour every other day...
I realize that this may not come as a shock to most of you, but I have never been what you would consider – fashionable. When it comes to how I dress and what I wear, comfort tends to always come before “image”. I mean, let’s be honest, when your basic body type falls in the category of fruit … the latest styles and colors from Ralph Loren are just a waste of money. But with the high heat that was hitting us a couple of weeks ago, I broke down and wore my sandals – your typical black rubbe...
A little over a week after the riots had wreaked havoc on downtown Freeport, business owners and employees were out taking down some of the plywood used to cover windows, and trying to return to some sort of normalcy. But it won't be easy. We learned that, unfortunately, several business owners are going to have to pay to repair their broken glass windows by themselves as they deal with their own personal insurance companies. "There are typically three types of coverage," explained Steve Holman...
More than $7,000 of the $20,000 in Partnership Cash has already been redeemed by local businesses in its first month of issuance. The Greater Freeport Partnership would like to thank the residents and consumers in Stephenson County for quickly spending their Partnership Cash to stimulate spending with local businesses in response to the COVID-19 closures. The Partnership continues to collect certificates from participating local merchants who accept them as payment for goods and services. More than 15 businesses have turned in Partnership Cash...
Typically, the average fan has very little contact with, or pays little attention to a school's Athletic Director – unless of course they want to post complaints about a coach. But for the media, our region's Athletic Directors are critical for us to even do our jobs. Athletic Directors provide schedules, organize team photo days, make sure results are emailed out after contests, and keep us posted when a local athlete is going to be honored with a college scholarship. In short, they are the f...
Andrew Chesney, State Representative for the 89th District will be the featured speaker for the Eagle Nature Foundation’s (ENF) 25th Annual Meeting and Fund-Raising Luncheon, which will be held in the basement of Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church in Apple River, on June 27th. His topic will be “Illinois 2020”. This meeting had been postponed for the past three months because of the coronavirus. The general public is invited to attend this meeting to meet the Representative and hear Mr. Chesney’s discussion. The 25th Anniversary Luncheon will star...
After meeting the original $5,000 match in just two and a half weeks, the Freeport Art Museum is delighted to announce that an anonymous family is offering another $5,000 gift if matched by community donations by the end of June. FAM's executive director, Jason Judd states, "I have been humbled by our community's enthusiastic response to raising funds to unlock the initial $5,000 match. With that said, I was taken aback when I received news that an anonymous family is willing to gift us another $5,000 if we are able to match it through communit...
The IHSA has only allowed small groups of athletes to do basic fitness exercises with coaches, so organized football practices are still a long way off. But that doesn't mean there haven't been some major changes being announced. With student enrollments dwindling, no sport showcases the differences – even among the small schools – more than football. There is a big difference for a school with only 132 students that might get 15 to 20 kids out for football, when it is compared to a Lena-Winslow...
Last Thursday, Preliminary hearings were held regarding criminal charges for Mob Action being leveled upon some of the people arrested the night of May 31st during the Freeport riots. Village Voices was in attendance, partly to see if any of the instigators we witnessed that night had been arrested, but also to get a lesson in our local legal system. At a Preliminary Hearing, the burden is on the State's Attorney – the prosecutor. They must prove that there is probable cause that the charges m...
Stress on farmers, ranchers and their families caused by lower crop prices, retracting global markets and natural disasters is still an ongoing issue especially in rural areas. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, rural communities across the Midwest were dealing with additional economic stressors including the closing of coal-fired electric plants, offshored manufacturing and reduced demand for oil and gas due to overproduction globally. As a result, rural communities have seen increasing levels of suicide from within a variety of industries...
Paula Baysinger Morhardt is pleased to announce the publication of two new books, Days of Daze and the companion volume, Night Maze, two 23 poem hard cover chapbooks. Both published by Fox Pointe Publishing LLP, they are available from Fox Pointe at foxpointepublishing.com. Days of Daze is filled with cats, bugs, heart wrenches, soul searching, and backed up sinks. It contains comments about things everyone knows - or thought they did. Waking in a daze, walking around in a daze, entire days of d...
Abandoned homes sitting vacant have long been a plague on every community. With the only residents being raccoons and other animals, they present an eyesore to their neighborhood, but are also a major health risk as they bring a bigger chance of rabies into the heart of our neighborhoods. The problem is, the law tends to protect irresponsible and bad owners who let these homes fall into a terrible state of disrepair. As long as the owner continues to pay the property taxes, there is little that...
Lena-Winslow High School announced their awards and scholarship recipients from the class of 2020. Those students honored were: College Scholarships University of Arizona - $35,000 per year, full tuition – Abbygale Strominger Milwaukee School of Engineering – Fred Loock Scholarship $18,000, MSDE Grant $17,000, Opportunity Grant $1,000, and Destination MSDE Scholarship $1,000 – Ashlyn Enck Knox College – Theater Scholarship $6,000, Founders Scholarship $3,000, Trustees Distinguished $21,000...
To our families, friends, volunteers, fans and the entire Lena Lions Fall Festival Community. It is with deep sadness and regret that we, the Lena Lions Club board and members, have made the extremely difficult decision to cancel the Lena Lions Fall Festival that was scheduled for September 11th and 12th 2020. We know that the Festival is a family and community staple with each of us looking forward to it all year long. We appreciate that each of YOU has helped us create what has become the...
Elizabeth Dwight E. Wilkinson, 82 Dwight E. Wilkinson, 82, passed away on February 23, 2020 in Gulfport Mississippi, after a long battle with lung disease. Dwight was born in Thomson, Illinois and spent his early years working with his family on various farms around the Carroll County area. In 1959 he decided that he wanted to see the world and joined the U.S. Air Force. He did two tours in Vietnam where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and valor, saving a plane full of soldiers by keeping the plane moving and not... Full story
