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5th-grade students from schools within the Regional Office of Education #33 will be descending on Lake Storey Thursday for the 35th Ken Russell Outdoor Education Day. The Outdoor Education Day started in 1985 -- only taking one year off, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be over 50 Volunteer Presenters greeting over 500 fifth-grade students from Knox County Schools and their teachers while they rotate through eight different stations on outdoor and environmental education topics throughout the day. Some of the station topics include Aquatics, Renewable Resources Scavenger Hunt, Butterfl...

The annual fifth Grade Outdoor Education Day will be 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 22 at Lake Storey in Galesburg.

Ken Russell, a district fish biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for 53 years, died at home on Jan. 19.

The world of wacky relief debuts Share this story Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images As was mentioned on the broadcast last night, Matt Peacock became the first pitcher since Marino Pieretti of the 1945 Washington Senators to get the win and a hit, while making his debut in an extra-inning game. Pieretti was the starter in that contest, and tossed all 12 innings of the 4-3 victory. But I thought it might be interesting to look at how Peacock’s debut stacks up among relief pitchers. He’s not the only one to get a hit in his first game. That’s actually a bit more common than you might...