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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...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) has already approved more than $545 million in payments to producers who have applied for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. FSA began taking applications May 26, 2020 and the agency has received over 86,000 applications for this important relief program. "The coronavirus has hurt America's farmers, ranchers, and producers, and these payments directed by President Trump will help this critical...
Beginning Monday, June 8, Monroe Clinic’s Lena location will be open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8am – 5pm. To make an appointment, please call 815-369-4541. Additionally, Monroe Clinic continues to offer telehealth visits. These phone or video visits allow patients to connect with a Monroe Clinic provider from the comfort of their own home. To determine if your appointment is available to be scheduled as a telehealth visit, please call your provider’s office. The safety of our patients, employees, and community membe...
While driving throughout there region, we noticed a lot of construction projects taking place, and figured if we were wondering what they were building ... other people might be wondering too. So we decided to ask....
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which will provide up to $16 billion in direct payments to deliver relief to America's farmers and ranchers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to this direct support to farmers and ranchers, USDA's Farmers to Families Food Box program is partnering with regional and local distributors, whose workforces have been significantly impacted by the closure of many restaurants, hotels, and other food service entities, to...
Lena State Bank would like to announce the retirement of Julie Lotz, Consumer Services Officer. Julie will be retiring on June 5, 2020. Julie has been looking forward to her retirement to spend more time with her family, especially being able to attend more of her grandkids school and athletic events. Julie started at Lena State Bank on 8/1/79. Julie celebrated 40 years at the bank last August. She remembers that she was playing tennis at the park when Ben Mayer called her over to his yard and...
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will broaden the use of the Disaster Set-Aside (DSA) loan provision, normally used in the wake of natural disasters, to allow farmers with USDA farm loans who are affected by COVID-19, and are determined eligible, to have their next payment set aside. In some cases, FSA may also set aside a second payment for farmers who have already had one payment set aside because of a prior designated disaster. “This immediate change of the Set-Aside provision can provide some welcome financial relief to borrowers dur...
Agricultural producers can now apply for USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which provides direct payments to offset impacts from the coronavirus pandemic. The application and a payment calculator are now available online, and USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) staff members are available via phone, fax and online tools to help producers complete applications. The agency set up a call center in order to simplify how they serve new customers across the nation. “We know Illinois producers are facing a tough time now, and we are m...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced this week that the March 2020 income over feed cost margin was $9.15 per hundredweight (cwt.), triggering the first payment of 2020 for dairy producers who purchased the appropriate level of coverage under the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program. "This payment comes at a critical time for many dairy producers," said FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce. "It is the first triggered DMC payment for 2020, and the first payment to dairy producers in seven months." Current...
Through Apple River State Bank’s partnership with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, the bank is providing $20,000 to support non-profit organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are committed to supporting our customers and communities, now more than ever,” said Joel Holland, Chief Executive Officer of First Community Bank of Galena and The Apple River State Bank. “We are proud to share the $20,000 relief grant among these nine food pantries and other non-profit organizations in our communities: Apple River Food Pantry Elizabe...
Local eateries, restaurants, cafes, pubs, and coffee shops are the social and economic lifeblood of many Illinois communities. Following the stretch of statewide shutdowns that began in late March, residents may be eager to see their favorite food and drink establishments reopen and employees return to work. To prepare for successful reopening in light of the changing food industry landscape, restaurant owners and managers may participate in two free, online webinars offered by the Illinois Restaurant Association and University of Illinois...
As we begin to slowly enter the recovery phase for COVID-19 including increased patient visits, we want to assure our patients, visitors, and community members that we are taking every step we can to ensure your care is delivered safely. Our services are being reopened in a phased approach, with precautions in place and a prioritized focus on patients whose appointments and procedures may have been delayed or impacted by COVID-19 regulations. “Monroe Clinic and the communities we serve have done an incredible job of adhering to the Safer at Hom...
State Bank of Pearl City introduces Pearl Investment Services, a new division aimed at providing its customers and communities with the investment services they need at a hometown institution they trust. Financial Advisor Robbie Minor will lead the new division. Pearl Investment Services is ready to assist its clients with individual retirement accounts, employer-sponsored retirement plans, investment brokerage services, college savings plans, trust accounts, charitable giving solutions, life...
With many ag producers struggling under the current depressed prices due to COVID-19, the Lena-Winslow and Scales Mound FFA chapters are working on a joint project. We are selling 2 different double-sided yards signs at $10 each and all $10 from each sign sold will be used to purchase locally produced milk, cheese, and other ag products that will be donated to our area food pantries. Sign 1 supports local agriculture producers and Sign 2 supports dairy producers. Full details concerning payment...
Callie Plager, RN, a nurse at Monroe Clinic's Highland Women's Care in Freeport, received the DAISY Award based on a nomination from a recent patient. Callie has been a nurse with Monroe Clinic for 4 years. Callie was nominated by a recent Monroe Clinic Women's Health patient. Her nomination shared that "Callie has been a constant through all my pregnancies. I recently experienced a scary pregnancy complication and Callie was there for me even though she was off duty on a weekend. She provided i...
Adkins Energy LLC is proud to award three outstanding local students with $500 scholarships to help them further their higher education. Entries for this year were judged on academic achievement and an essay: Why is ethanol important to agriculture? Aaron Folk, son of Brian and Jill Folk, highlighted the importance of ethanol for fuel, food production, and conservation of the environment: “When petroleum is released into the environment it can cause cancer and smog. Corn ethanol helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 40 percent.” A g...
As a kid, we all played the game where you lined dominos up in a wide arrangement – taking hours to weave across the floor in a massive pattern – only to enjoy the few seconds of enjoyment as you toppled the first one over and watched as the rapid escalation of each one pushing the next down spread across the floor. Unfortunately, that childhood scenario is the best way to explain what is taking place with our local economy. While most people are well aware of what problems repeatedly tor...
After months of construction, Monroe Clinic's oncology department now occupies its new home on the lower level of the clinic building, accessible via its own entrance. In addition, the department is now able to offer an important service for cancer patients, radiation therapy. "For the peace of mind of our patients, we are very happy to now offer radiation therapy," said Erin Daniels, Director of Oncology Services. "Offering this service in Monroe means our patients and their family members...
“This spring has been a struggle for all small businesses across the country, and especially in Downtown Freeport. Being forced to close has made some of us work harder than we ever have before just to survive. We are living in unprecedented times. Things will never be the same, this pandemic has changed us. But with your help we’ll be able to look back and feel blessed to have made it through the most difficult time our businesses have ever seen,” Carmela Jackson! We have set up a GoFund Me online, where every $10 enters your name into a dra...
The Jo Daviess County Board has established a new $250,000 Jo Daviess County Small Business Grant Program (SBSG). The purpose of the SBSG program is to help small businesses deemed “non-essential” pursuant to Governor Pritzker’s “Stay at Home” executive order, that are located within Jo Daviess County, to remain viable during the following COVID-19 pandemic. The grant program is intended to help “non-essential” small businesses in Jo Daviess County pay expenses not covered by the federal governments “Paycheck Protection Program” or oth...
Unemployment in Illinois and the U.S. continues to balloon amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The state reported 81,596 first-time claims in the week ending April 25, during which time more than 3.8 million claims were submitted nationally. That means 818,917 Illinoisans filed for unemployment since March 21, and 681,041 drew unemployment benefits during the week ending April 25. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, that is about 10.7 percent of Illinois’ civilian work force. T...
The Greater Freeport Partnership launched its Partnership Cash program on Friday, April 24 at 7 pm and the program exceeded $10,000 sales of all grant funded purchases before noon on Saturday, April 25, 2020. After just one Facebook Live program introduction, Stephenson County residents pushed the post viral to help promote the program and increase support of small business in the area. Just 18 hours later, the program met its maximum investment allotment of $10,000. The $10,000 investment from...
The Daily Drawing (a cooperative fundraiser) is a drawing for 366 daily cash prizes from October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020 to those donating for a ticket. Cash prizes vary between $50 and $250. A ticket may win multiple times as each ticket remains in the drawing each day for the entire year, no matter how often it may be drawn. There are nearly 20 organizations working together on the Daily Drawing from Jo Daviess, Carroll & Stephenson County. Sponsoring organizations include: Caring Community of Elizabeth, East Dubuque Music Boosters, E...
CoreFx Ingredients, manufacturers of custom dry dairy and lipid health and wellness ingredient solutions, recently donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to local health care facilities in Monroe and Freeport. As CVOID-19 makes its way around the country, thousands of health care workers are putting in long hours, stressing about hospital preparations and worrying about contracting the virus and bringing it home. A lack of PPE has heightened these concerns for most as they appeal to the...
All of us are inundated with daily updates from Pritzker's Office, and New York, and the White House in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. But if you are anything like me, I wanted the local news. The Illinois Press Association, and Capital News Network sends every newspaper daily stories dealing with the pandemic, from every angle. And to be honest we print very few of them because 1.) With the daily news on television and the radio, by the time it would make it into print on our pages, it would...
