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Prairie Players previews 'A Night of One Acts'
Prairie Players Civic Theatre presents "A Night of One Acts" Saturday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at its Galesburg theater, pairing an original script wi…
1 week ago
'Someone has to put all the pieces in the right place': Maurice Cohn on conducting, and coming home
Maurice Cohn picked up his first cello at age 4 in Galesburg. Now Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony, he returns Saturday, Sept. 19, at 7 p…
1 week ago
Inside the 40th Annual Ken Russell Outdoor Education Day
More than 500 Knox County fifth-graders will spend Thursday outdoors at Lake Storey for the 40th Annual Ken Russell Outdoor Education Day, an event t…
1 week, 1 day ago
Sunrise Rotary's Great Ball Drop: 900 golf balls, one fire truck ladder, $1,000 on the line
Sunrise Rotary drops nearly 900 numbered golf balls from a Galesburg Fire Department ladder Saturday, Sept. 19, at 1:30 p.m. at Rotary Park on Losey …
1 week, 2 days ago
Knox County Drug Court, ahead of Saturday's Quarter Auction — 'you have to want to do this'
Bring quarters — that's the premise of Knox County Drug Court's third Quarter Auction, set for 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Knights of Columbus …
1 week, 3 days ago
Sandburg College at 60: a car show, a charity run and a letter nobody has read since 1976
Rodney Blue coached cross country at Carl Sandburg College from 2015 until his death in 2024, and the thing everyone remembers is the smile and the h…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Duncan family: three generations of Galesburg boxing, and the coach who never raised his voice
Andy Duncan started a boxing club with one rule: hard work and a good attitude, no fee required. Nearly eighty years and three generations later, his…
2 weeks ago
'The best place in the world for Stearman knowledge,' a pilot says of Galesburg
Brett Anderson's grandfather flew P-47s in World War II, came home, and spent the rest of his life buying and selling airplanes. That meant Anderson …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Rio Days returns Saturday at the village ballpark
Some of the equipment at the ballpark in Rio is original to the village school, which closed years ago. Brittany Miller, Bailey Lee and Danielle Bush…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
'They literally have nowhere to go' — Mayor Peter Schwartzman on homelessness in Galesburg
Galesburg has more shelter beds than it did five years ago. The Rescue Mission is still full, some shelters still can't take families with children o…
2 weeks, 2 days ago