Rockford golf initiative
— March 25, 2015Golf has played a major role throughout the history of the Rockford Park District, dating back to 1912, when the District’s first nine-hole golf course opened inside Sinnissippi…
Tag: Winnebago
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Child Poverty in Winnebago County
— March 25, 2015Child poverty rates in Illinois and Winnebago County remain higher than pre-recession levels and are much higher than in 2000, according to the Illinois Kids Count 2015 report, Confronting…
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Rockford Lutheran finishes 4th in Class 3A
— March 21, 2015PEORIA – As time passes Rockford Lutheran’s fourth place finish at this weekend’s state basketball finals will seem pretty special. The immediate reaction was disappointment…
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Rockford Lutheran falls in semifinals
— March 20, 2015Westchester-St. Joseph jumped out to a 19-1 lead and never looked back on the way to a 55-38 Class 3A state semifinal victory over Rockford Lutheran on Friday at Peoria’s Carver Arena….
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Welcome to Sockford
— March 10, 2015Midway celebrates city’s famed Sock Monkey There were no lines for treatment at Sockford General Hospital last Saturday. Owners of Rockford’s trademarked Sock Monkeys could step…
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WNIJ honored
— March 25, 2015WNIJ is the recipient of the 2015 Excellence in Media Award, given annually by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Northern Illinois. This annual award recognizes the…
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Non-profits prepare for the worst
— March 21, 2015Officials at nonprofit agencies are holding their breath that proposed state funding cuts will be averted before Illinois’ 2016 budget goes into effect this summer. RAMP, which…
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Cheap gas may delay fracking in Illinois
— March 10, 2015Timing, as they say, is everything. And Illinois’ entry into the fracking game seems to have come at an inopportune time for that industry. For the last several years, states such…
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