The level of talent demonstrated in the construction of this forest of trees is truly inspiring and speaks volumes about our community. If you happened to see the flock of origami cranes, it will be ...

Thank you to everyone who supported the 2025 15th annual Festival of Trees at the Savanna Museum & Cultural Center. Whether you sponsored a tree, provided a silent auction item, volunteered to work, ...

The Mount Carroll Public Library will host a Job Search Workshop from 5-6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8. The workshop begins promptly at 5 p.m.

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 ...

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 ...

Brian Reusch, right, long-time station manager and prep sports play-by-play broadcaster at WCCI Radio in Savanna, was honored with the IHSA Distinguished Media Service Award Saturday afternoon, Dec. 9 ...

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 ...

SAVANNA—The City of Savanna has a new mayor — finally. The Savanna City Council unanimously approved appointing Val Gunnarsson as the new leader for the city at its Tuesday, June 14, meeting.