Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

The press release came last week – after six years at the helm of the Aquin Boys' Basketball program, Dr. Keith Martin was stepping down. So last week, I sat down with him – not to drum up any dir...

I was not looking forward to the Fourth of July. With Stockton’s celebration cancelled that meant that my speech team couldn’t raise money at the lemonade stand, but more importantly I sat there...

If you own a trailer, the new license plate fee is going to give you sticker shock. The state has increased the annual fee for a trailer license plate by $100, regardless of the weight class. For the...

Sunday night up in Argyle, the Orangeville Broncos took out some frustrations on their hosts as they blew past Argyle in a 12-3 drubbing to open up their summer schedule ... well kinda. You see, the I...

Big changes might be taking place on August 1st, and we're not just talking about the state going into Phase 4 of their Covid-19 pandemic requirements. On June 26th, Restaurants and Bars were allowed...

“Why don’t we go for a drive?” It was an innocent question from my wife after I had just vented over editorial issues with the paper, and my first thought was that – yeah, I needed to get...

Believe it or not, we might begin to see High School summer sports soon as the Lena-Winslow Volleyball League is prepared to begin competition next week. At least, that is the plan ... "This is ALL...

Every parent of young kids knows the feeling – you’re somewhere in the house doing something when you suddenly realize – it’s too quiet. Immediately the internal alarm bells go off and you beg...

The Pearl City School Board held their monthly meeting in a large Google teleconference format, where members and visitors alike called in and listened on as the Board went about the business of the...

So how are you getting through the pandemic? Tired of Netflix? Finished all of those nagging home improvement projects? Sick of staring at the same four walls? After seeing my wife take off for yet...

The plan to make the move was made over a year ago, but with a daughter getting married the timing just wasn't right – so it waited a year. (But I think it was worth the wait.) The latest home...

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...

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...

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,...

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 m...

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...

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...

It was supposed to be something you watched on television; something that happened in the big cities; something that happened ... somewhere else. Instead, what began as a whole lot of nothing,...

I thought I knew what the story was about. When sitting in the midst of the protests taking place in Freeport on Sunday May 30, I won’t lie, I wanted to set off an EMP to blow up every phone being...

Stockton may have cancelled their annual Fourth of July celebration, but that didn’t mean there weren’t some fireworks on display at the most recent School Board Zoom meeting. By now, everyone...

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...

So did you get your $1200 check from the Federal Government? Hopefully, if you did, you realize that it is not “free” money. The $1200 “incentive” checks that many people received is actually...

We got an email from a woman, who made the point that her favorite column of Dan’s was back on 2/13/13 … so … we had to see for ourselves why someone would like it, and … yeah, it wasn’t...

OK, I really didn’t want to get into this subject because there will be some who see it as elitist, or call me a racist, or try to paint me with some other form of “ist” label … but the...

One of the worst kept secrets in the region was confirmed last week as the Stockton School Board voted to hire Matt Leitzen as the new head football coach for the Blackhawks this upcoming season,...