If you’re a reader of The Community Word, you no doubt follow city politics. So, you are aware of the debacle than ensued when Peoria Mayor essentially ordered Peoria Police chief Steve Settingsgaard to investigate and arrest the author of…
In defense of the dandelion
May 1st is Law Day – a Great Time to Consider Common Sense & Law Enforcement
‘Parody’ my @##
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West Peoria News for May 2015
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Like mom – like me
Peoria Public Library Happenings for May 2014
Miller Center (Pekin) calender of events
Chillicothe Public Library 2014 Summer reading program
Become a ‘backyard tourist’ for national travel and tourism week
Newsbriefs for May 2014
Award-winning Photojournalists Visiting BU: Exhibits showing through month
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Voters weigh in during spring primary
Historical Society marks 80th anniversary with re-created visits
Great job
Claims that FEMA had decided not to grant the state any funding, is accurate but incomplete and misleading
As the income-tax deadline looms, taxpayers should connect widespread resentment at what many feel was an unresponsive Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with available resources resulting from choices made in Washington. Outrage also may be tempered by a more complete report of actual government response.
By any other name
Many Peorians will remember the names, “Uncle Bob and Aunt Billy.” Bob and Sybil Prager were naturalists at Forest Park Nature Center over four decades ago. Bob was a pioneer in restoring some of the beautiful, though little known, flora native to Central Illinois, from the fragile snow trillium, to shooting star, to the eight foot tall big bluestem grass. The clearing where the Nature Center’s “Deer Run Trail” meets “Valley Trail,” is actually an amazingly diverse prairie planting, that was meticulously planted and weeded by Bob, Sybil, and a small cadre of volunteers.