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With planting season nearly upon us, Our County Editor DAVE HINTON reached out to past winners of The News-Gazette’s Farm Leader of the Year award for their predictions and prognostications

She was a popular singer in the 1950s and had toured with Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray.

Singer Lola Dee, who recorded for Mercury and Columbia in the 1950s and toured with Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray, has died. She was 95. 

The magic voice coming out of a radio put Max Armstrong on the career path to become a radio broadcaster. “That’s all I ever wanted to do from the age of 7 or 8 was to be on the radio,” Armstrong said.

Max Armstrong knew from the time he was 7 years old that he wanted to be on the radio, and is now celebrating 48 years in his career in agricultural

The McHenry County Fair is celebrating its 75th anniversary Tuesday through Sunday in Woodstock.

Quick Take: Plus, grazing schools offered, fair honors Big O, ag leaders named, and USDA offers discrimination help.

Sheffield is the only town in the Berkshires to host the Smithsonian Institutions "Crossroads: Change in Rural America." The exhibit will be on view March 26 to May 6.

In the FFA Chapter Tribute segment, Mike Pearson talks to Sydney Loflin, President, North Carolina State FFA who comes from a home school chapter. She’s enjoying travelling the state and meeting people from all over the state.

By Mike Kinosian TALKERS magazine Managing Editor   LOS ANGELES -- Talk radio’s tightknit community is reeling as it mourns the passing of one of the format’s genuine iconic stalwarts, Jim Bohannon, who has died at the age of 78. “Class act” epitomized peerless communicator Bohannon, who – ...