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.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 15 E. Main St., Champaign, IL 61820, call 217-359-6500.
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.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 15 E. Main St., Champaign, IL 61820, call 217-359-6500.
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.
One of the area’s longest-running elementary school fundraisers takes place Friday morning — and it will be easy to spot. The 13th annual Walk For Westview will have some 450 kids hoofing around school and next-door St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in Champaign.
Managing clutter can help you manage stress; save you time finding what you want, need and use; and save you money when you make it a habit of only buying what you need and you aren’t buying a replacement of what you can’t find.
Staff writer Paul Wood chats with 65-year-old vice president for academic services at Parkland College, who is set to become its sixth president when current President Tom Ramage retires in 2022.
Elementary school in the 1980s found me at the school playground sitting on the crossbar at the top of the20-foot-high fireman’s pole contemplating a penny drop.
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Kathy Sweedler is a consumer economics educator at the University of Illinois Extension. Contact her at 217-333-7672 or sweedler@illinois.edu.
Staff writer Paul Wood chats with Mark Wertz, 36, of St. Joseph, owner of Wertz Chiropractic Clinic, who's an outdoorsman, a family guy and a Christian.
Recently, Thomas and I spent a week in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Our first night, he mentioned a strong bleach odor in our hotel room. I made an off-hand remark about it being in an upcoming episode of CSI: Spring Break Central.
The tradition started as a collegiate event, but local high schools have a history that goes back 100 years.
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