17+ hour, 10+ min ago   (97+ words) Shaw Local Illinois Valley Cursillo to meet Sept. 12 in Peru Monthly Ultreya held at St. Joseph Church Illinois Valley Cursillo will hold an evening of food and fellowship Saturday, Sept. 12, at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Mass will be celebrated at…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (959+ words) MORRISON — The aroma of freshly baked bread may be what first captures her customers’ attention, but for Angel Richmond, the process begins long before a loaf ever reaches the oven. What emerges from the heat is the culmination of days…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (162+ words) Shaw Local Bread-making event offered Sept. 5 at Fulton’s Windmill Cultural Center De Immigrant Windmill in Fulton will be offering a bread-making event at 10:15 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:15 p.m. or 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (658+ words) Everybody has a suburb they think Anderson’s Candy Shop should expand into, Katie Anderson-Tedder said. While the family-run chocolatier has a store in Barrington too – and once had a store in Crystal Lake – Richmond is their home, Anderson-Tedder said. On…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (839+ words) On the west side of Aurora, just off Deerpath Road, and up a winding path called Shagbark Lane, lived John G. Goodfellow, M.D., and his lovely wife Dorthea. And if you were born in Copley Hospital in Aurora between the late ’30s and…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (441+ words) It’s Monday afternoon, and what a lovely March day it is! The temperature is almost 70 degrees, the sun is shining, but it’s windy. I have clothes hanging on the lines, which were a little challenging to hang, especially bed sheets…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (268+ words) On Wednesday, all five of my daughters spent the day here. It had been a while since we were all together for a day. Elizabeth has three children in school, and Susan has five. That fills up their schedules with…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (124+ words) This column has to be out earlier than usual, so, having written a column just a few days ago, I decided to reminisce and look through my past columns of over 23 years. Lovina's table is set for a family dinner....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (419+ words) We have already entered February. Today is Groundhog Day, and it looks like Mr. Groundhog says six more weeks of winter. Either way, it seems we get six more weeks or more. We have had a real winter so far…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (154+ words) Illinois Extension will offer a bread-making workshop Jan. 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Illinois Valley Community College in Oglesby. (Maribeth Wilson) Food and Nutrition Educator Susan Glassman will teach participants to make coffee cake and lower-sugar quick bread during the four-hour session....