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Grandma's Diary readers are the best! Lots of information concerning Hog Lake came from Tom Anderson and Lula M. Clark. Tom and I had a wonderful phone conversation talking about Hog Lake and our …
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by Carole (Best) Brown
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10/18/21
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No matter how often it happens, I am always in awe of the way that God speaks to me–drawing my awareness to the exact conversation, or memory, or quote or song lyric that I need in the moment. …
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by Tori O'Dell
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10/18/21
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Welcome to 4-H, where you can find your spark by exploring different project areas, and finding what you really like to do. Among these many project areas, you can join visual arts, STEM where you …
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10/12/21
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I would like to express my appreciation to Imagine Hillsboro, Jonathan Weyer, and everyone else who planned and worked on the Fall Harvest Festival in Hillsboro Saturday, Oct. 2.
There was a good …
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10/12/21
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There are many beautiful days that you will hopefully never forget in your lifetime. Maybe it was your first true love or the day you got married. Maybe it was the birth of your children …
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by Dawn Lutz
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10/12/21
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I like pretty.
I suppose everyone does in one way or another, so I need to be more specific. I also know that one person’s pretty isn’t the same as everyone else’s; that deserves …
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by Ron Deabenderfer
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10/4/21
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But the bridge is out. What do you think we should do?
It started out simply enough. Kyle and I wanted to treat Charley to a special lunch on Friday after her first week of school. We tossed …
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by Mary Herschelman
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9/27/21
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September is National Recovery Month. This year’s theme is,
• Recovery is for everyone
• Every person
• Every family
• Every community
Many …
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by Lynette Weiss, Cross Over Ministries
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9/27/21
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September 1954 and the weather is still hot and dry. Does anyone remember Essie Molohan who taught third and fourth grade at Butler? She was my favorite teacher, even though she was the only one who …
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by Carole (Best) Brown
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9/13/21
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The forecast was grim.
What we thought could be a bad thunderstorm turned into streets flooded and the town of Gibson City was soaked when nearly nine inches of rain fell in just five hours. The …
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by Dawn Morris
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9/13/21
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I would like to thank those school board members who voted against the motion to investigate suing the Governor over his mask mandate.
In leaving, I mentioned the military and would like to expand …
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9/7/21
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Labor Day passed for another year; this time I have a better understanding of myself, so I saw the celebration through older but wiser eyes than previously.
Perhaps that’s the best reason …
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by Ron Deabenderfer
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9/7/21
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Thirteen soldiers, 13 heros, 13 caskets wrapped in red, white and blue–what sorrow for 13 families and for all of America!
Our freedom is not free.
My story is old news to you. I …
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9/7/21
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When I was 16, I stopped in the Texaco gas station near Wood Street and South Main Street in Hillsboro and received both fuel and a life lesson.
“Fill it up,” I told Willis Sturgeon as …
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by Gene Sturgeon
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9/7/21
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We’ve got the “back to school blues” at our house, although it’s not affecting who you might think.
Charley, now age four, started her first day of preschool this week, and …
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by Mary Herschelman
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8/30/21
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Young pedestrians, bicycle riders, and school buses will soon return to Illinois’ streets and roads as another school year gets underway.
Transportation-related accidents are always …
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8/23/21
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There have been some really great things to have come out of the pandemic.
Tiger King. I feel like that should just be a sentence in itself. Tiger King. Regé-Jean Page from …
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by Tori O'Dell
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8/16/21
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The hot, dry weather drags on into August 1954 with little relief in sight, but as usual the farm families just put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Cousin Larry and his pals Charlie …
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by Carole (Best) Brown
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8/9/21
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The August issue of Illinois Country Living asks readers “use your voice” to delay closure of Prairie State Energy Campus (PSEC) coal plant, Illinois biggest carbon emitter. The …
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8/9/21
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I just wanted to say a big thank you to the Old Settlers Committee, all the hard-working queen candidates and all the many volunteers for the tireless hard work that went into making Old Settlers …
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8/9/21
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