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Listen to the radio story, which features brief interviews with Wanda Foster and Raeva Farris Farris urged people to take advantage of the Illinois Department of Public Healths free COVID-19 testing offered in Macomb on Monday, December 21; Wednesday, December 30; and Saturday, January 2.  The testing will be done in Q lot on the Western Illinois University campus from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day. Farris said she can see a light at the end of the tunnel for the pandemic. But she said we ar...

MDH writes tribute to Dr. Donald Dexter Patrick Stout Voice Correspondent MACOMB — McDonough District Hospital has written a tribute to Dr. Donald Dexter, who died recently at age 92. He was one of the original physicians at the hospital when it opened in 1958. After retiring from his medical practice in 1989, Dr. Dexter became one of the longest-serving members on the MDH Board of Directors. He served from 1995 to 2011 and was a past chairman. He served as board chairman during the hospitals...