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ROCKFORD Tom Wartowski was a journalist, photographer, businessman, political activist, children s book author, homebuilder and prosecutor. But to those who knew and loved him, he was even more than that.
Wartowski, 73, died Thursday after a 20-year battle with lung cancer. His wife, Peg, and son, David, were by his side.
A few days before his death, David had found in Wartowski s office a decades-old note from Wartowski s mother written for his eighth-grade graduation some 60 years ago. The handwritten note on yellowed paper reminded a young Wartowski whose family had fled Soviet Union-occupied Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1951 of St. Francis teaching that it is in the giving that we receive.
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December 17, 2020
An alumna of the College of Saint Benedict was named president of McDaniel College in Westminister, Maryland Dec. 16.
Dr. Julia Jasken was selected by the McDaniel College Board of Trustees to be college’s 10th president, effective June 1, 2021. Jasken will be the second woman president in the 153-year history of the college.
Jasken, who began at McDaniel in 2003, will succeed Dr. Roger Casey, who announced he will retire at the end of the 2020-21 academic year after serving over a decade as McDaniel’s president.
A native of Moorhead, Minnesota, Jasken earned her bachelor’s degree from CSB with double majors in English, and communication and media in 1993. She then earned a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University and her Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University.
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A South Carolina councilwoman was indicted on public corruption charges for using government credit cards to book pricey trips including one to Newark in order to stalk NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, the
The 24-count indictment was issued by the state grand jury Thursday against Richland County Council Vice Chairwoman Dahli Myers.
Elected in 2016, Myers lost this year s Democratic primary election for Council District 10 earlier this year. Her term was set to end on Dec. 31, but Gov. Henry McMaster suspended her from officer on Friday.
Most of the charges against 52-year-old Myers were for illicit use of her county credit card, according to State Grand Jury Division Chief Attorney Creighton Waters.
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