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March 21, 2025Protect School Meals!
By Dr. Chris Prososki, Southern Schools Superintendent The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high poverty schools to offer free school…
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March 14, 2025Little Steps
By Gordon Hopkins I warned you this was gonna happen. But would you listen? Noooo.Next weekend, the Bonham Theatre will…
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March 7, 2025Barbara Jean Ebke
The family of Barbara Jean Ebke is requesting a card shower for her 87th Birthday. Please send cards to 911…
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March 7, 2025The Story Under the Story
By Gordon Hopkins It is a weird thing to write for a small town newspaper. The dynamic is not the…
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February 28, 2025Items of Interest: Smuggler’s Blues Edition
This week has been especially interesting week for crime news. I'm always on the lookout for a good crime and…
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February 21, 2025A Two-Front War (or Is It Three?)
By Gordon Hopkins This week I read two news stories that have me especially concerned. Most news stories these days…
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February 14, 2025Teenage CyberWastland
By Gordon Hopkins There is a great deal of concern about how badly social media is messing up kids. Nobody…
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February 7, 2025Thirsty Robots
By Gordon Hopkins Even if you never touch a computer (and are, therefore, probably not reading this,) Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
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February 4, 2025Threes Pieces Autism Group Discontinuing Gala, Focusing On Scholarship
Threes Pieces Autism Awareness Group of Fairbury will no longer be doing the annual gala event to mark Autism Awareness…
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January 31, 2025A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Adjusted for Inflation)
By Gordon Hopkins I've been in a pretty grumpy mood all this week. Not because of politics (although that definitely…
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