Alex T. Paschal

Eighteen survivors with 224 years of survivorship took part in Saturday's Relay for Life of the Sauk Valley. Seventy participants and 13 teams raised money for the American Cancer Society. This year's event brought in a total of $43,240 in donations.

Rain fell on Rock Falls Tourism's Bellson Fest on Saturday, June 8, 2024, but that didn't stop the music. At about the halfway mark for the show, organizers moved the festival across the street to the McCormick Event Center. People chipped in to unload equipment so the remaining bands could play a truncated set indoors.

Hundreds of high-powered dragsters made a stop in Rock Falls on Monday, June 10, 2024. Sick the Magazine's Sick Summer tour brought the rides through Rock Falls, where they stopped over for a city-wide block party.

DIXON — Right place, right time. That's the best way to describe how Dixon Rural Fire Chief Dustin Dahlstrom played a role in saving the

There are lots of euphemisms one can use to describe what it is like to work in a newsroom: teeter totter, trampoline, pogo stick, the stock market. There are ups, downs, highs, lows and sometimes a few tears shed.

What started off as a box of donuts and a handful of veterans has blossomed into a resource-driven, therapeutic breakfast of camaraderie and fellowship.

The popular Rock Falls Halloween attraction burned to the ground in May , with the blaze destroying the structure, props, costumes, tools and equipment. What it didn't take was the resolve of Haunted Haven owner, operator and spiritual leader Melissa Schultz.

DIXON – When the Rock River Valley Shamrock Club hung up its kilts last St. Patrick's Day after more than two decades of parades and parties, a

Retired Sauk Valley Community College professor shares love of Upper Peninsula; Haunted Haven owner perseveres after devastating fire.

ROCK FALLS – The Yak-Yak Sisters, a group of kayaking enthusiasts, is celebrating one of their own.