Columnist Sharon Chenoweth gives a commentary on helping her husband on the farm

The 34th annual Good Hope Sodbuster Days celebration this weekend saw the small community rally to make their festival a successful event with plenty of games, music, and food, citizens from around the area had fun, despite the heat and occasional rain.

The morning is cool, but sunny and clear.
Diane Fox's last kindergarten class at Lincoln School hold hands in pairs as they walk down Calhoun Street to the railroad depot, where trains have been stopping in Macomb for more than 100 years.

Participants are needed for the annual Good Hope Sodbuster Days event, scheduled for June 6 through 8.

Golfers will be sinking putts for oral health at Eagle View Community Health System's inaugural four-person scramble on Friday, May 23 at Western Illinois University's Harry Mussatto Golf Course. Proceeds from the event will help purchase a panoramic x-ray machine for Eagle View's new Macomb dental center.

The three-story brick house that Mark L. Vincent and Heidi Scott call home in Rushville has a history that dates back nearly a century — as well as a secret.
Built in 1914 by the A.P. Rodewald family, who used the 7,200-square-foot home as a single-family residence, the house later became the popular Schuyler Hotel in the late 1940s. For 20 years, people from throughout the area would come to stay at the hotel and revel in its third-floor ballroom.