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CENTRAL MINNESOTA TOWN BALL REPORT Completing my eleventh year at 1390 Granite City Sports with your weekly amateur baseball (Town Team) reports.

Schnepf Farms is known for its peach orchards and pumpkin patches. But the grounds also hold a charming place to stay.

With all the excitement of the Bills in the playoffs again this year, let’s look back at a time when Lockport fielded several of its own semi-pro football teams in

The number of seniors on the slopes has reached epic proportions. A record 10.5 million seniors participated in the sport. These ski resorts are ideal for seniors.

Four former Silver Streaks, a state-qualifying team and a longtime media member represent the Galesburg Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2023.

Hairspray, makeup, high heels, camp: I dont care for any of these things, so contemporary drag performance holds little interest for me. It is, apparently, of the greatest interest to some members of our state Legislature, in the sense that television dance shows were of interest to the great moralist Ignatius J. Reilly, who felt compelled to sit before the TV set in his bedroom and catalog every offense, every last lurid move by the depraved teenaged dancers.

The lone Beatles sister, Louise Harrison, lived in Galesburg for a few months in 1968 and while here worked as a copy writer, read commercials and was an occasional on-air personality at WGIL Radio.

Galesburg City Council approved beginning the process o sell bonds worth $5.3 million to fund the construction of a new community center.

Galesburg passed a resolution supporting LGBTQ+ people, after an investigation into whether an alderman authored offensive social media posts.

Notable Deaths: A list of influential Galesburg-area individuals who died in 2022.