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The Download with DP Episode 6 – Kurt Pegler
Kurt Pegler (4:30) Sports Director at WMBD in Peoria joins me this week to talk about the tv business, covering sports in central Illinois for over th...
Breathing life back into Lincoln
The desire of a Peoria businessman and his wife to live out their Christian faith by helping a central Illinois community in need led to their recent purchase of the shuttered Lincoln College campus for a job-creating lease program. “We want life back on that campus,” John…
Inland Art: Activism
‘Art on the offense’ can be used to fight for your rights; it continues at the Contemporary Art Center 'I am but one — but I am one. I cannot do much, but I can do something, and all I can do, I ought to do, and by God’s grace, will do.” — John Angell James (1848) Read more →
GCMS boys golf finishes fourth in Birdhouse Open
EUREKA – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley boys golf team finished fourth in the Birdhouse Open with a score of 368 on Tuesday. Jared Caviness and Dayne White tied for 10th with score of 41 apiece to lead GCMS while Rylan Urrutia tied for 13th with a score of 43, Ian Rotramel tied…
GCMS cross country runners compete at First to the Finish Invitational
PEORIA – Erin McCall of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School cross country team finished 31st with a time of 19:25.8 in the girls’ Class 1A race during the First to the Finish invitational held Saturday at Detweiller Park. Brysen Butler finished 49th with a time of 16:23.1…
Nature Rambles: Monarchy
A lot has happened since Dr. Fred and Norah Urquhart located massive overwintering Monarch butterfly colonies in Michoacán, Mexico.. Decades of wing-tag data has led to a better understanding of the precarious nature of migration. Now overwintering populations in Mexico have…
Letters: To our Honorable Congressmen
Congress has the power of the purse, Congress has the checkbook. You have taken an oath to defend the Constitution. Remember? Read more →
Labor roundup: State AFL-CIO brings back candidate endorsements
In addition to endorsing incumbent Democrats in Congress such as Eric Sorensen and Nikki Budzinski, the Illinois AFL-CIO endorsed Paul Nolley, who’s working to unseat Congressman Darin LaHood; voting rights are civil rights; cannabis workers unite Read more →
‘Every Picture Tells A Story’ rekindles past glory of Peoria music scene
Janie Grier Kelley has produced 236-page package of four booklets recounting decades of central Illinois rock ‘n’ roll, with more than 1,200 images of hundreds of artists and related people, places and things Read more →
5 questions for Tim Beeney
Independent ‘ex’-bike advocate has a wealth of some really cool and creative ideas Read more →
The Watch: Official operations mean big business to you, the public
Peoria County Board addresses AI usage; Election Commission working on ballots; City Council talks Twin Towers; plus news on Housing Authority, Tri-County Planning. League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria observers report on local government Read more →
The Watch: Police Chief appears before City Council
Dixon talks about construction of a police substation and ambulance station at Allen Road and Van Winkle Way, theft at Springdale Cemetery, and e-bikes and ATVs among other things Read more →