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Five City staff to walk 24 hours in honor of officer diagnosed with lymphoma Rockford police officer Ian Graham isn’t sure how long he’ll be at this year’s Relay For Life, which begins at 3 p.m. Friday, May 15. He thinks he’ll still be pretty sick from Wednesday’s chemo treatment. The 30-year-old […]
They are the names you have seen and heard around Rockford as long as you’ve lived here: Kitson, Myers, Krause, Briggs, Blakeslee. On Tuesday, May 12, the people behind the names were recognized for their role in the history of this community. The Rockford Area Community Endowment had a public ceremony adding the names to […]
Dicksie Tremlin, a recent graduate of the Grand Rapids Community College nursing program, was awarded the esteemed Arthur Andrews Cup for graduating with a 4.0 in the associate nursing degree program. Dicksie graduated from Rockford High School in 1982 and received her cosmetology degree from the Chic University of Cosmetology in Grand Rapids. She was […]
by CLIFF AND NANCY HILL About to graduate from Rockford High School this May ’09, hometown girl Erin VanDruen, like all students, was searching for a career path of study for her future life. Erin has always had a love of math and a strong interest in graphic arts. Along those lines Erin, as part […]
by CHRISTINE BIGNEY Joe Kelly is an amazing man. No, he probably could not lift 1000 pounds, nor could he perform amazing acrobatics. But he sure can play a mean guitar. Kelly, who has been teaching music in the Rockford area through various stringed instruments for 40 years, has a passion for the art. “You’re […]
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