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Highland Speech & Debate Winners

It was a historic performance for the Highland Community College Speech and Debate Team with a strong showing at the state tournament on March 3-4 at Northern Illinois University. The team has met...

Voices All Area Basketball Team

The coaches have all announced their picks for All Conference Honors, and it is now our turn top reveal the players we chose to be on our 2023 All Area Team. Once again, we have to point out that...

All Star Volleyball Returns

Last year, the first ever All Star Volleyball game was presented at Eastland High School in early June – sponsored by Village Voices Charities – and the event is scheduled to make its' return on...

Baseball Standings

West RR/SM 0 - 0 2 – 0 Fulton 0 - 0 3 – 2 East Dubuque 0 - 0 1 – 1 Galena 0 - 0 1 – 1 Warren/Stockton 0 - 0 1 – 1 West Carroll 0 - 0 0 – 2 North Lena-Winslow 0 - 0 1 – 0 Pearl City 0 - 0 2 – 2 Pec/Durand 0 - 0 1 – 2 Orangeville 0...

Area Round Up

Baseball Pearl City 12 AFC 8 Tanner Perdue thew 5 innings, giving up 6 hits 2ER 3BB and 4Ks earning the W on the mound. 4 of the 5 runs AFC scored in 7th were unearned on 3 errors. Nathan...

Softball Standings

West Galena 0 - 0 0 – 0 East Dubuque 0 - 0 0 – 1 Stockton/Warren 0 - 0 0 – 1 SM/RR 0 - 0 0 – 1 Fulton 0 – 0 0 – 1 West Carroll 0 - 0 0 – 2 North Orangeville 0 - 0 1 – 0 Pearl City 0 - 0 3 – 1 Durand 0 - 0 1 – 1 Lena-Winslow 0 -...

Point To Ponder

Just when you are convinced the world is a cold and heartless place, something comes along to convince you otherwise. I was having a bad weekend – really bad. The schedule itself had me in a sour...

Your Voices

Good morning Dan I wanted to send a note to thank you for all your coverage of the Scales Mound Hornets this basketball season. As you know more than anyone, local small school sports coverage is pretty minimal these days. Scales Mound doesn’t...

From The Desk Down State

A primary responsibility of state government is to protect those who otherwise cannot protect or take care of themselves. Sadly, in too many cases, the State of Illinois is failing these most...

Preacher's Piece

Last week my wife and I were on vacation in Florida. Our daughter who lives in Tennessee joined us and we made a week of it. The first thing we did was pick her up at the airport and then we went...

Lighter Side

My mechanic said it would cost $300 to fix the squeak my car’s engine was making, so I decided to just play my Iron Maiden CD really loud to drown out the noise. I don’t know what’s wrong, but if you open and close the hood like this, It...

Obituaries

Lena Richard “Rick” Vrstal, 83 Richard “Rick” E. Vrstal, 83 of Lena passed away on Monday, March 13, 2022 at SSM Monroe Hospital. He was born September 25, 1939, in Berwin, IL to Edward and Joan (Horna) Vrstal. He married Penelope Ford in... Full story

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