The eighth-seeded Warren Warriors matched the top-seeded Pecatonica Indians in the first half but their upset bid fell short ...

Did you say vagina? This feels like a naughty word, Chelsea Middendorf said, but that’s what makes the play, “The Vagina Monologues,” so effective. The play seeks to break the ...

The Galena Pirates’ season ended after falling short against the Rockford Lutheran Crusaders, 58-45, in the sectional semifinals, Feb. 25, in Sterling.

Born to a teacher and ophthalmologist, I grew up in Austin, Texas, before the internet. I graduated from military school and after studying abroad in Holland, got a business degree ...

Raymond Tesmer, postmaster of Galena, has worked for the post office for 32 years, three in Galena. He said there are challenges with safety, ice, snow, driving and cold weather ...

Republican President Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the approval of Congress in 1970. In 1974, Republican President Gerald Ford signed into law the Safe Drink ...

The Galena city finance director will officially take over as interim city administrator on March 1 following approval by the Galena City Council at its Feb. 24 meeting.

In his letter to the editor Thomas A. Schmidt wrote about the Jo Daviess County and their letter to the editor of Feb. 11.

If I am a redhead, am I Irish? Apparently not. In fact, red hair is said to have originated in Central Asia. It is found in only 2-6% of the ...

The River Ridge/Scales Mound Wildcats lost to the Pecatonica Indians 56-39 in the sectional semifinals, Feb. 25, in Sterling.

“Wilding,” by Isabella Tree (2019), is the story of how Tree and her husband, Charles Burrell, took their 3,500-acre farm out of crop and dairy production and turned it into a wood pasture in Sussex, ...

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