As young girl, Lily Karnes was a happy-go-lucky person who loved making people laugh.
It seems that when we are sequestered indoors, our bodies yearn for warmth, both internally and externally. We naturally crave those earthy flavors of root vegetables such as carrots, beets, parsnips and even rutabagas.
Absolutely nothing warms cold hands on a cold November afternoon quite like a steaming cup of tea. Herbs are wonderful plants to use for your own tasty mixes. With a little creativity, you can have a different tea for each day or mood, whether fruity, spicy, floral or soothing. Best of all, …
When Tiffany Krihwan was 10 years old, she learned how to sail, taking lessons and spending time on the water with her grandfather.
When a group of Special Olympics athletes on a Kenosha-based women’s basketball team were competing recently for a chance to play in the state finals, they decided that win or lose, they were not going to go to state.
Editor's note: This is the first of two profiles of volunteers who will be honored at Tuesday's Reaching for Rainbows event. The second profile, featuring Lena Cooksey, will be published Monday.
If you have a shoebox filled with old video game cartridges stuffed in a closet, you may want to think twice about throwing them out.
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Question: I am 54 years old, baptized Catholic at 20 years old. My Mom was Protestant and my father was Roman Catholic. I was never baptized as an infant and took classes with a priest at 19 and decided I wanted to become a Catholic. We just found out that my mother’s family was really Jewis…
Near the northwest corner of Illinois is resilient little Galena, which wears its history as a badge of honor and foundation for tourism.
“Hellfire Club” by Jake Tapper; Little, Brown & Co (342 pages, $27)
