“Let me help, Hon,” my dad said as he lifted his feet off the coffee table.
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Why wait till Dec. 25? Tuscola is celebrating the holiday in a big way this weekend with its annual Christmastown festival.
There are fewer and fewer Americans who remember that historic day, Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese bombs landed on the American fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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A group of second-graders looks up as I point to a bird constantly flitting back and forth above our heads along the trail. The students have come to Homer Lake for a field trip to learn about what animals do in winter.
Thomas pulled the car next to the curb. “Front door service,” he said.
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The center, which opened in the mid-1990s, is also raising its daily fees slightly.
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Since 1993, my Halloween costume has been a cow, complete with udders and a tail. I recently added cow ears, and I’m still trying to figure out how milk could shoot from my udders, especially since complete strangers feel free to tug on them.Some years, I wear face paint and/or black and whi…
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The Honor Roll Project, posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo at honorrollproject.weebly.com, is seeking volunteers on Veterans Day (Nov. 11) to “photograph a local honor roll or war monument and transcribe the names.” The data will be posted and made available for researchers.
Cops and robbers, gunplay, and high society play major parts in the initial exhibit in Champaign County History Museum’s newly redesigned gallery, “Who We Are: Stories of Champaign County.” The gallery’s focus will change every six months or so. The first exhibition, the “Harris Mansion Heis…
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There are many ways to raise children, and if you have more than one, you too know what works for one child may not work for another.
“Mom, on Saturday, can I have some friends over for a pumpkin-carving party and then watch scary movies in the basement?” Audrey asked.
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Brian and Courtney McKay, whose eldest son, Davis, benefited from a Make-A-Wish trip to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida in January 2017, will host a wine-tasting fundraiser this week called Wine For Wishes to benefit Make-A-Wish Illinois.
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As the seasons shift, now is an excellent time to pause and reflect.
Since I have three girls, I can’t speak from experience, but my understanding is that boys tend to solve their disagreements with fisticuffs and then move on with their lives.
Where can you pound on an anvil, ride in Abe Lincoln’s buggy and visit a wigwam all in one day? At the Museum of the Grand Prairie, of course.
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Staff writer Paul Wood chats with the 46-year-old Champaign resident who serves as CEO and executive director of the Housing Authority of Champaign County.
In this week's entry in our recurring photo series, News-Gazette staff writer Paul Wood takes a look back at the changing of the season in East Central Illinois.
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Vern Paddock of McHenry was disturbed about the final resting place of some Lake County’s early settlers, including his own ancestors — buried in the 175-year-old Fort Hill Cemetery.
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