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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Carroll County Senior Center will begin hosting a monthly event entitled Coffee & Conversation the second Thursday of each month (excluding holidays) from 9-11 a.m. at the Senior ...

GALENA—The family of Terry J. Miller, 76, of Galena, and formerly of Hanover, sadly announces the passing of their father and grandpa on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. Terry was born on July 5, 1949, to Lois ...

SAVANNA—Bernice May Popkin, 89, of Savanna, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling. Born at home in Mount Carroll on May 12, 1936, she was the beloved ...

CHADWICK—Harold A. Andresen, 88, of Chadwick, passed away Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, at Allure of Mount Carroll, surrounded by family, leaving behind a legacy of love, service, generosity and devotion to ...

Well, that didn't take long. After blowing through over $3 million to play musical chairs with West Carroll students to accommodate Mount Carroll's ambition to move the high school to Mount Carroll, ...