Do you love sewing and your Library? Then you have the perfect combination for adding to our community quilt project! Love your Library, but don’t sew at all? You’re still perfect for adding to our quilt! Using books, reading, or community as the theme, create your own one-of-a-kind 10″ quilt block to donate to our […]
Western Illinois University School of Agriculture Assistant Professor Shelby Henning has added two more specialty crops to his research program in order to provide information to local and regional farmers on growing options and the successful production of a widening number of plant species. Henning, in cooperation with University of Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Chris […]
Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2022 is much better than 2021, and it brings us all happiness, health, and great times! Cheers!
A New Year’s Eve tradition for the last nine years is back at The Speakeasy in downtown Rock Island as the theater welcomes Bottom’s Up Burlesque to ring in 2022 with an all new show! “We’re thrilled to be continuing this tradition after having to skip last year,” said Brett Hitchcock, Speakeasy director of audience […]
The Village Theatre in the village of east Davenport is holding a pre-resolution party at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31! Here’s your last chance to indulge before your resolutions kick in! A great party supporting two great causes: QC Harm Reduction and New Ground Theatre. $10 gets you hours of great music, hilarious comedians, a […]
New Years Eve in the Redstone Room, All Sweat Productions performs the classic Fleetwood Mac album, Rumours, plus other Fleetwood Mac hits! Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm Opening Act: Dj Buddha Age Restriction: 19+ (minors must be accompanied by parent or guardian) Web: https://www.facebook.com/allsweatproductions Genre: Classic Rock All tickets are general admission. Purchasing a ticket […]
A life filled with local, state and national volunteer service has earned a Western Illinois University alumnus the highest award given by the Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB). David Erickson, a 1980 agriculture education graduate, from Altona, IL, was presented the Charles B. Shuman Distinguished Service Award during the IFB’s annual meeting in Chicago earlier this […]
Sean Leary’s regularly scheduled Friday column, which usually drops now in the 9 a.m. hour on Fridays, will instead be published later tonight. Also, Epstein still didn’t kill himself. Neither did Ghislaine Maxwell. (Oops, sorry, sneak preview of my Dec. 31, 2022 column…)
BREAKING NEWS: Illinois has absolutely decimated the daily record for covid cases, with a stunning 30,386 cases over the last 24 hours, according to numbers just released by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Given that children’s cases and hospitalizations are likewise spiking, some are speculating about whether or not Illinois schools will return as […]
BREAKING NEWS: Illinois covid-19 numbers continued to soar as the state roared by the 20,000-case barrier for the third time in six days, and children’s cases and hospitalizations are hitting new highs as schools get ready to resume in-person classes next week. Illinois barely missed hitting a new record for cases over the last 24 […]
