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Photo by ann shaffer glatz Boston Brown Bread after steaming 2 hours. Throughout the pandemic, I have been binge-baking, dutifully feeding my sourdough starter every day, and feeling pangs of guilt every time I scrape my extra sourdough starter "discard" into the garbage. Having trained under a Michelin-starred chef who is renowned for her perfect sou...

Rachel Otwell Some Springfield Public Schools students returned to the classroom on Tuesday, for the first time in more than 300 days. Students across Illinois were sent home last March due to state COVID-19 mitigations. The District 186 board voted to implement its hybrid plan at a Jan. 4 meeting. Reportedly, about 44% of students had enrolled for the hybrid option for the second se...

Local officials say they are aware and prepared

Those 65 and older to become eligible Jan. 18

It's early, yes, nearly two years out from Election Day. Only a fool would declare intentions at this point – give the incumbent a chance...

Photo courtesy of Shatriya Smith. John Crisp Jr. stands with signs he created for the SEAP project, located at the intersection of South Grand Avenue and 14th Street. Political signs littered the landscape during last years campaign season. "Some of those signs were left behind," said Shatriya Smith, who lives on the east side of Springfield, "addin...

Politicians say stuff. We must fight disinvestment in struggling communities. By using public money to leverage private dollars, we can make Skittles fall from the sky. Then there is White Oaks Mall, downtown Springfield and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Instead of Skittles, we face an Orange Julius rain, which is as yucky as it sounds. Politicians had eight years to get their snuff together – thats how long ago the feds greenlighted a rail corridor expa...

The new kid on the artistic block is the nonprofit Creators of Art, Music and Poetry, or CAMP. The brainchild of local musician Jamie Merideth and brought to fruition by his own hard work and some input from music columnist and veteran performer Tom Irwin, CAMP strives to promote the creative branches mentioned within its name – art, music and poetry. The endeavor has also benefited from the help of Sheila Walk of the Springfield Area Arts Council, Brian Crowdson of Crowdson Creative and Th...

It doesn't feel like 2021 yet I'm hoping it will by january 20 who knows what all will happen even is happening in this crazy...

The nations top doctor recently stopped in Illinois to urge people to get vaccinated. At a Dec. 22 press conference in Chicago, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recounted speaking earlier in the day with a nurse at a hospital who worked in an ICU that was at capacity. "Even if you dont personally feel at risk from COVID, your actions still can have an impact on you, your family and your community in other ways," said Adams. "That full ICU, its full because there are COVID patients pushin...