I also had two tires needed repairing and two kind women at Casey's, Kaitlin and Rachel, helped me out as I was out in the snow removing one tire with the funky jack handle that is difficult to turn ...

Twenty-five percent will come back to the Fulton Food Pantry, Savanna Food Pantry (we have walkers with Mount Carroll addresses) and the Thomson Children’s Christmas Program. The remainder moves on to ...

HANOVER—Northwest Illinois Economic Development (NWILED) has announced its session line-up for its 2026 Build It Grow It (BIGI) program, an entrepreneurial boot camp designed to empower aspiring busin ...

ObamaCare's insistence on covering people with existing illnesses differentiates it from true insurance and reveals it to be government-run healthcare. When it became apparent that ObamaCare couldn't ...

The Carroll County Senior Center will begin hosting a monthly event entitled Coffee & Conversation the second Thursday of each month (excluding holidays) from 9-11 a.m. at the Senior ...

Board member Zac Vandendooren opposed the bond resolution as premature, "noting they don't have some project costs," but that didn't stop the West Carroll board in the high school move a year ago as ...

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The Carroll County Board held its reorganizational meeting Monday, Dec. 2, and elected Julie Bickelhaupt chair and William Iske vice chair. Board meetings will be the first and third Thursday of each ...

In regard to David Hanson’s most recent letter, I’ve always enjoyed big words, and have a relatively large vocabulary, but Mr. Hanson “got” me with “logorrheic”. I admit I had to Google it! It is ...

WINNEBAGO—Tracy L. Marsh, Jr., 79, of Winnebago, formerly of Mount Carroll, passed away on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. Born Oct. 20, 1945, in Melrose Park, Ill., the son of Muriel (Broberg) and Tracy Lee ...

With just a handful of contested races throughout Carroll County, the voter turnout for the Consolidated Election on Tuesday, April 6, was quite light. The Carroll County Clerk’s office reported that ...

Spring is in the air, with the mercury occasionally topping 60 degrees in late February and early March. The first official day of spring is less than two weeks away, March 20, and people are eager to ...