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Two second place speech finishes for Galena
GALENA–On Jan. 16 the Galena High School speech team competed live online at the Freeport NIC-10 Virtual Conference Challenge. Students submitted videos for judging on Thursday. Then, on … more
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Graduations Western Illinois University MACOMB/MOLINE–Two local residents earned master’s degrees from Western Illinois University at the completion of the fall 2020 semester. They … more
River Ridge School District held its annual spelling bee on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Individual honors included Katie Cobine, left, who finished in second place and Carson Dodd, right, who won the spelling bee.
River Ridge top spellers
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Graduations Highland Community College FREEPORT–Highland Community College announces the 2020 fall graduates. Graduates were awarded associate degrees, associate of applied science … more
Blaum first at speech invite
GALENA–Freshman speech team member Emma Blaum placed first at the Galena High School (GHS) speech invitational on Saturday, Jan. 9. Blaum’s is the first first-place finish this season for … more
NWILED announces fourth entrepreneurial scholarship
HANOVER–Northwest Illinois Economic Development (NWILED) announces the fourth annual Build It Grow It Entrepreneurial Scholarship. All high school seniors in Jo Daviess and Carroll counties … more
Dupaco foundation to offer college scholarships
DUBUQUE–Applications for the 2021 Dupaco R.W. Hoefer Foundation College Scholarship Program are now available. The program awards a total of $40,000 to 20 students in two … more
Galena High School math teacher Randi Burken uses her computer during a hybrid lesson. Some of Burken’s students are in-person while others are online. The challenges of online learning can be difficult for some students to overcome as districts try to help those students stay equal to their peers who are at school.
Crossing the digital divide: Impacts of digital connectivity felt during the pandemic, districts try to adapt
GALENA–The pandemic has caused many concerns to those in education, whether to return to in-person learning, how education can be done in a socially-distant environment or what a remote … more
Galena Primary School has a long-standing tradition in fourth grade. Each year students construct individual gingerbread houses, sharing candy and inviting parents or guardians to join in the fun. This year, the tradition continued, albeit in an altered fashion because of the pandemic. The PTK helped purchase gingerbread house kits for the students, who then had time to put them together in class before displaying the finished projects in the library. Joshua Klein shows off his decked out house.
Gingerbread tradition
Southwestern student Keylee Dreessens works on a math game that the class shared with Southwestern fourth graders.
Making math fun: Southwestern’s college math class creates math games
HAZEL GREEN, Wis.–Southwestern math teacher Emily Herbst tries to find ways to connect her high school students with elementary students to show younger students that math can be fun. In a … more
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Highland Community College forensics team members, from left: Dezi Brooks, Freeport; Kara Becker, Rockford; McKenna Peart, Scales Mound; and Mike Sherman, Davis.
Scales Mounds’s Peart on Highland forensics team
FREEPORT–McKenna Peart, a Scales Mound High School graduate, participated on the Highland Community College (HCC) forensics team during a challenging and successful semester. Since the … more
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