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Food prices have made shopping difficult ahead of Thanksgiving. In Milwaukee County, a pair of events worked to take some stress off people's plates.

LAGRANGE — Family members, firefighters and Department of Transportation members gathered at the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday to dedicate the bridge on Mark Edwards Road that crosses

Penny For Your Thoughts: History Exists Outside Textbooks (featured image via Town of Carrboro) The state of North Carolina recognizes Juneteenth, but not as a paid holiday. In 2007, however, a bill was passed to make Juneteenth a paid holiday once it is federally recognized. 47 states and the District of Columbia recognize Juneteenth as a ceremonial holiday. Texas led the way to make it an official paid holiday for state employees in 1980 and recently New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia followed suit.  But let’s back up! I never learned about June 19, 1865 in school. Sure we were taught a...

In the pre-dawn hours of a Saturday morning in 1937, 24-year-old Victor Weaver and his wife, Edith, loaded 17 dressed chickens into the trunk of their 1936 Hudson Terraplane. They had prepared the chickens the prior afternoon in their small farmhouse kitchen in Blue Ball, Pennsylvania. They took their cargo to the Sharon Hill Farmers Market, near Philadelphia. They returned to Blue Ball with an empty trunk, a little bit of cash and plans for weekly runs to Sharon Hill. In the short space of a few months, the husband-and-wife team was processing 200 chickens a week for their blossoming busines...

Today is Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago: In 1920, the local Salvation Army corps was planning to send out 200 Christmas baskets at an average cost of $4 each ($53 in today’s dollars). The four Christmas kettles distributed about Champaign-Urbana in the previous week had raised about $200 ($2,700 today) thus far. In 1970, Champaign City Council member Robert Pope joined incumbent Virgil Wikoff and Melvin Mitchell as candidates for mayor of Champaign. In 2005, the Civil War-era Solon House, one of the few remaining Italianate structures in ...