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  • Bowl for Kids’ Sake helps fund mentor program

    Big Brothers Big Sisters of DeKalb County is appealing to the community to support Bowl for Kids’ Sake, the mentoring organization’s biggest annual fu ...
    Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:09 pm

  • Free health seminar scheduled

    The Family Health Center of Sycamore will hold a free seminar, “The Silica Connection,” at 6 p.m. Thursday at 1170 DeKalb Ave., Suite 111.
    Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:07 pm

  • Class offers help for caregivers

    If you regularly take time to help a loved one with errands, personal care, living arrangements, financial and legal concerns or activities, you are a ...
    Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:06 pm

  • Manpower hosts meeting for job seekers

    Need a boost with your job hunt? Manpower is coming to the DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St., at 2 p.m. Tuesday to help give the job seeker a boost. ...
    Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:05 pm

  • Blood Drive at Valley West Hospital

    Valley West Hospital will host a community blood drive from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Valley West Medical Office Building on the Valley West campus i ...
    Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:06 pm

  • Program on healthy snacking set

    Many people take in as much as 25 percent of their daily calories from between-meal snacks. This isn’t a problem if snack choices are healthy and not ...
    Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:03 pm

  • Feed’em Soup hopes dinner ends long winter

    Feed’em Soup, 122 S. First St. in DeKalb, will hold an all-you-can-eat pancake dinner will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
    Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:02 pm

  • Shiboru: An ancient art now revamped and revisited

    From tablecloths to duvet covers, iPhone cases to wallpaper and startling calf-skin wall hangings, the ancient Japanese resist-dying technique of shib ...
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 4:26 pm

  • Gala event benefits KishHealth

    KishHealth System Foundation will present “A Formal Affair” gala on March 8 in the Duke Ellington Ballroom at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. 
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 3:56 pm

  • New book shares Vivian Maier's story

    The more you learn about Vivian Maier, the more you want to know. Her story is a bit bizarre, one o ...
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 4:27 pm

  • MILESTONE

    60th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. David Woodin of Malta will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on ...
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 4:28 pm

  • NIU to hold publishing workshop

    The Northern Illinois University Department of English and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming office will hold a workshop t ...
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 3:55 pm

  • 4-H summer camp registration now open

    4-H Camp Week 2014 is set for June 9 through 13 at Camp Benson in Mount Carroll. Camper registrations are now being accepted.
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 3:55 pm

  • NEW ARRIVAL

    Ahlbach LaKesha Whirl and Austin Ahlbach of DeKalb announce the birth of a daughter, Taya Marie Ahlb ...
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 4:28 pm

  • Uncorked: Damiliano Cannubi is worth the wait

    Instant gratification took over the moment the Damilano Cannubi was opened.  A special red wine from ...
    Feb. 21, 2014 - 4:31 pm

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