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We've all put our foot in our mouths, or had something we meant to say come out completely wrong, but when you happen to hold public office and do it at a public meeting ... the ramifications can be catastrophic. In a meeting of the Stephenson County Administration & Legal Affairs Committee that convened on July 8th, 2020, a discussion occurred concerning the possible removal of a personnel policy for Stephenson County employees. During this important discussion, Board Member, Alvin Wire...
Day 7 of quarantine: Struck up a conversation with a spider today. Seems nice. He's a web designer. You know, all these people who said we should shut down everything because of climate change are probably the same people protesting on the steps of the state capital screaming at the government to open up the bars. I'm so old, I can remember going through a whole day without taking a photo of anything. A side effect of the quarantine is that it's really hard to end phone calls. Twice today I almost said, "OK, I have to run," before realizing the...
Windshields and Bugs - This time of year it’s practically impossible to keep your windshield clean of splattered up dead bugs. The gas station squeegee is just not enough to keep up. So I came up with a plan - I put some windshield washer fluid in a five gallon bucket and added some water and set it next to the wall in the garage where I park my truck everyday. Now, when I pull into the garage and get out of my truck, I simply take the squeegee sponge and scrub the windshield. It’s amazing how...
Timber Lake Playhouse (TLP), the professional summer theatre of northwest Illinois, announced its 13th Annual GALA will be held on Saturday, August 29, 2020. This year, for the first time in the GALA’s 13 year history, due to COVID gathering restrictions, the GALA will be held virtually. “I’ll admit, after last year’s highly successful GALA, I was skeptical about holding this year’s (GALA) online,” said TLP Board President and GALA Committee Chairperson, Robin Saar. “However, the way that this virtual event is shaping up, it’s going to be a g...
United Way of Northwest Illinois awards over $407,000 to community partner health and human service organizations serving Stephenson, Jo Daviess and Carroll counties through 2020. “Our 2020 annual funding cycle will provide needed resources for our partner agencies as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our partner non-profits are the backbone of our community and without them, many individuals and families in our community would have nowhere to turn.” said UWNIL Executive Director Connie Kraft. “Through 2020, we expect to see the needs...
Elaina Martin of Warren is only going to be a sophomore this coming year, but she already made a name for herself athletically by seeing plenty of varsity action as a freshman for the Warriors. Last week, during the Freeport Summer Softball League, she was one of several incoming sophomores who put on a private show for their fans. With two on and two outs against Pearl City, Martin stepped into the batter's box and worked the count to 2-2 when the next pitch was hammered. As the ball sailed...
On Tuesday, July 21, the Warren-Stockton Warhawk high school baseball team honored their senior players and started their summer season by hosting the Orangeville Broncos for a doubleheader. In the first game, Josh Reynolds started the scoring for the year with a 1st inning RBI single to put the Warhawks on the scoreboard. Orangeville rallied back and took the lead with two runs knocked in by Cade Janecke in the top of the 3rd inning. In the bottom of the inning, the Warhawks regained the lead for good with an RBI triple by Ethan Williams...
Lena Ellen Lou (Busse) Kyles, 92 Ellen Lou (Busse) Kyles, age 92 of Lena, IL, passed away on Sunday July 19, 2020 at the Lena Living Center. Ellen was born on May 11, 1928 on her father’s birthday, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Dodge, IA to William and Maud (Holt) Busse. She married Frank on June 18, 1947 at Catholic parsonage. She taught in a rural school from 1946-1947. They lived in Rockwell City until 1955 and the moved to Lena, IL in January of 1955 where Frank worked for Illinois Central. She spent five years working at Burgess Battery i... Full story
As one who scribbles largely about things Illinois, I feel almost obligated to observe on the bombshell (certainly for the small fraternity that follows Illinois politics) news that utility ComEd has agreed to pay a $200 million fine for bribery of Illinois officials. The announcement by the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago identifies Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan as the ultimate object of the bribery. Some background: Madigan has been speaker of the House for most of the past four decade...
Monroe Clinic Oncology is excited to welcome a new nurse practitioner to the team, Mia McDermott, APNP. Mia earned her Master of Science degree in Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. As a Certified Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner (APNP), she brings an expertise in treating patients with solid tumors and both benign and malignant hematologic disorders. Patients can make an appointment with Mia in either Monroe or Freeport. To learn more...
While the pandemic has canceled events, torpedoed our economy, and is causing some severe depression as separation anxiety has become a very real medical issue – especially among the elderly – the Covid-19 Pandemic has also expanded our vocabulary as the Urban Dictionary recently added a new term – Maskhole. Maskhole - Selfish idiots in my neighborhood who think that they don't need to wear a mask because the rest of us do. Example: "A maskhole jogged right past me in the park today." Not weari...
The Greater Freeport Partnership is pleased to announce the award from the Freeport Community Foundation for its Downtown Freeport window display, #FreeportReflections. FreeportReflections is a program to enliven vacant storefronts in downtown Freeport with art installations. Beginning July 30, 2020, a select number of vacant downtown storefronts will be transformed into works of art. The majority of the $5,796 grant award will be used for artists’ honorarium. Less than $1,000 will be used for equipment, signage and promotional materials. ...
State Representative Andrew Chesney (R-Freeport) received a very special invitation recently. The second term legislator from Northwest Illinois was invited by President Donald Trump’s White House Social Office to a special event on the South Lawn of the White House to discuss “rollback of regulations helping all Americans”. Chesney attended the event in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, July 16, joining other state officeholders from across America in traveling to the Nation’s Capital highlighting the importance of the Trump Adminis...
Aquin Administration is pleased to announce the hiring of Matt Weik as Aquin's new Head Coach of Boys Basketball. Coach Weik served as the Boys Varsity Assistant Coach under Dr. Martin last year and will take over the lead role heading into the 2020-21 season. Weik takes over the position vacated with the resignation of Dr. Martin who held the position for six years. His experience playing collegiately at UW Platteville, coaching at the high school level, and extensive involvement with youth...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced an initial list of additional commodities that have been added to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), and that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made other adjustments to the program based on comments received from agricultural producers and organizations and review of market data. Producers will be able to submit applications that include these commodities on Monday, July 13, 2020. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is accepting through Aug. 28, 2020, applications for CFAP,...
Hours after filing a court document implicating – but not charging – Illinois' House Speaker Michael Madigan in a yearslong bribery scheme, federal officials took to the courtyard of the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago on Friday, July 17, to deliver a message to those engaging in public corruption: "We will find you too." The charges in the document filed Friday are officially against Commonwealth Edison, Illinois' largest electric utility company, which has agreed to pay $200 million and...
State Representative Andrew Chesney (R-Freeport) called on Speaker Michael Madigan to “resign from the General Assembly or be removed.” In the wake of ongoing federal investigations surrounding state and municipal governments that ultimately saw the resignation of several legislators, Rep. Andrew Chesney led the charge in sponsoring a package of bills aimed at ensuring Illinois has among the most stringent ethics laws in the nation this Spring. Chesney proposed fining members of the Ill...
