Tim Rowell News Today

Feb. 25 was an unusually busy day for me.

Chris Rowell, a beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away peacefully at his residence by his loving family on Friday, February 2, 2024. He was born on June 20, 1968,

The Sinfonia da Camera and Lyric Theatre at Illinois presented a semi-staged performance in Foellinger Great Hall of that greatest of Viennese operettas, Johann Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus” (“The Bat”).

The Five Minute Read highlights things to do, places to go and people to know in the Greater Lowell area. Have news to share? Send it to mgilbert@lowellsun.com.

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Wicked Local In June, 30,000 or so people will gather on a hillside at Yellow Creek Park in  Owensboro, Kentucky for the annual Rompfest, a four-day festival of bluegrass music.  Owensboro is home to the international Bluegrass Hall of Fame, which sponsors the show and the festival brings out some of the biggest names - Ricky Skaggs and Rhonda Vincent have played past festivals. Last summer, the pandemic nixed the festivities, but this years lineup includes Dan Tyminski -- COVID willing. If ...