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New Alton Restaurant Takes Over Location of Former Diva Favorite

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The Dining Divas By Lisa Kampeter It’s always exciting when a new restaurant opens up in our neck of the woods, or at least close to our neck of the…

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Spring Forward Takes Time For Our Biological Clocks to Adjust, But We Always have Fallback

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A Boomer's Journal By Tom Anselm By now you will hopefully have recovered from that evil manipulation of our biological clock  known as Daylight Saving Time. I have come to…

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It’s Spring, Right? That Means March Bracket Madness

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By Randy Gardner It’s hard to believe that Spring is finally here and the only reason I can tell is that it is College Basketball Tournament time, it is surely…

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The Dining Divas Feel Home Sweet Home at Bella Vino in St. Charles

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The Dining Divas By Lisa Kampeter It doesn’t happen often.  Before the Dining Divas even finished their meals, the ladies were already talking about a return visit.  One Organized Diva…

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Let’s Not Forget Oshie’s Goal to Beat the Russians

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By Randy Gardner What a turnaround the Olympics became in the world of hockey. I know they have been over for a while now but this is the first time…

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Whether it’s Silver or Golden Tsunami, Growing Senior Base Has to Stay Active

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A Boomer’s Journal By Tom Anselm The Silver Tsunami…You may have heard  the term.  It refers to the historic, mind-boggling, record-breaking number of people who are now or will become…

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Is City-Council Re-marriage Possible After The Great Divorce? Better Together Hopes So

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A Boomer’s Journal By Tom Anselm It was a time just after the great bloodletting know as The Civil War that our region had it's own separation of sorts, though…

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Every Night Olympics Makes Us Prouder

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By Randy Gardner This could be about a 10-page column on how impressed I am with the way that the American Athletes are handling themselves in Sochi. Every time that…

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The Monuments Men: About Time

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By Sandra Olmsted Director George Clooney’s timely The Monument Men chronicles the real-life adventure of the American lead effort to save the cultural history of Europe as the Allied Forces…

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Dining Divas do Brunch at Roster’s

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The Dining Divas Have Lots to Crow About at Rooster By Lisa Kampeter If you’re like me, when you think of a rooster, you think of crowing.  You think of…

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