44th Rootabaga Jazz Festival This Week
The 44th Annual Rootabaga Jazz Festival gets underway tomorrow, culminating with the Bill Frisell Trio at the Orpheum Theater Saturday night. Andy Crawford, Managing Director and Jazz and Instrumental Programs Director at Knox College joined Tom Meredith
Galesburg, Williamsfield legends inducted into Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame
Brad Bennewitz, Travis Lewis honored Saturday in Normal
Illinois Attorney General: Galesburg violated Open Meetings Act. Here’s why, and what it means
City Council committed the violations at two December 2022 meetings
Thousands of engineers remain frustrated with unmet demands from BNSF contract negotiations
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tens of thousands of engineers remain frustrated with the lack of paid sick time and the demands railroads like BNSF are making in negotiations despite the deals that have been made this year
Cantarini, Julie C.
Julie C. Cantarini, age 47, of Galesburg, Illinois, died on Monday, May 1, 2023, at OSF St. Mary Medical Center. She was born February 21, 1976, in Galesburg, Illinois, the daughter of Mike and Val (Spencer) Davidson.
Foster, Rhea A.
Rhea A. Foster, 73 of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and Galesburg, Illinois, passed away on April 24, 2023, at her residence with family by her side.
Dog fatally attacked a 9-month-old baby and seriously injured child’s grandmother at an Iowa home
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A dog has fatally attacked a 9-month-old baby and seriously injured the child’s grandmother at an Iowa home, authorities say. Waterloo police Capt. Jason Feaker said that the 49-year-old grandmother was watching the
Eastern Illinois man sentenced to 44 years in prison for assaulting a state trooper during a traffic stop
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — An eastern Illinois man was sentenced to 44 years in prison for assaulting a state trooper during a traffic stop. Randy M. Turner, of Danville, was pulled over in May 2022 for driving
150 years since Dixon bridge collapsed. Remains the worst vehicular-bridge disaster in American history.
DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. Christan Goble held the 3 1/2-year-old girl in a crowd of
Galesburg citizens plant another 16 trees on Saturday. Project 350 past the halfway mark.
Project 350, the volunteer-led project to plant 350 trees in Galesburg, just passed the halfway point of its five-year goal. This past weekend, 13 citizens put another 16 trees into the ground around town which pushed the