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March is Women’s History Month, and the link between women making history and women shaping culture is indelible. Women have been the guardians of culture all across the world and throughout history. We have taught children and each other about the cultures we are all immersed in. Because of women, we know who we are as a people and as a community. Because of women, our communities have grown, healed, evolved, and flourished. I spoke to two women who chose our community as home, and I learned how these women have been shaped by the women in their own lives. Jenny Putman and Lucia Maldonad...

Lots of history in this week's mailbag including the beautifully restored Solon House in Champaign, the beloved Wheats Steak House in Urbana, a totem pole in Homer and an addition to the venerable Red Lion in Campustown. Also, a lot of information about the University of Illinois' plans to expand its quick, inexpensive COVID testing program; the new county treasurer's plans to fix problems in the office; recycling in Mahomet; programming a weather station and some Champaign street issues. Red Lion project "Last week I drove past The Red Lion on Green Street and saw that someone was doing soil...