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January 15, 2021 The normal King Day Breakfast and events will be a little different this year as it will be virtual. It will be a Zoom event including the junior high essay winners, music and the featured speaker, Illinois NAACP Teresa Hailey.
The Illinois senate passed the highly controversial HB3653 just before 5:00 this morning and it now goes to the house for consideration. The bill deals with police reform and will affect law enforcement and prosecutors in their duties. Knox County Sheriff David Clague joined Tom Meredith and
January 11, 2021 It started with the Blessing Boxes, expanded to free meal and coat giveaways and has now become a weekly, no questions asked, event through February. Also, the City of Galesburg is letting the group use the building at 120 E. Main St. that they are calling the Blessing Box Depot. That is where you’ll be able to pick up a free meal, among other thing, at “Meals on Main”. Two of the organizers of the event, Champ Coleman and
The Illinois legislature continues to meet as they wind down the lame duck session and get ready for the next legislature to take over. One of the pending bills deals with police reform. There has been much opposition to many things in the bill but it is apparently gaining some momentum. 74th District State Representative Dan Swanson joined Tom Meredith and Tyler Gumm on “Galesburg’s Morning News” to talk about that and other state business. If you would like to view Committee or floor events live, you can do so at Ilga.Gov. Click on audio/visual and then the BOS site.
Knox County Health Department, Knox County Emergency Management Agency and the local hospitals are teaming up to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine. Although it’s hard to tell the exact number of Knox County residents who have been vaccinated, our county seems to be ahead of what’s happening nationally. Health Department executive director Michele Gabriel and Emergency Management director Randy Hovind joined