Archive for May 2019

Reprinted with permission of Peoria Journal-Star By Nick Vlahos, Photo by David Zalaznik It isn’t every day the Deer Creek District Library receives a $2,000 anonymous donation. Come to think of it, it might not be any day. At least not any day in the two decades Carlene Mathis-Kull has worked there. “It was such…

Editor’s Note: Jerome Maddox is Vice President of Illinois Prairie Community Foundation’s Board of Directors By Ryan Denham; Photo by Jeff Smudde Reprinted with permission of WGLT A huge crowd marked Armed Forces Day on Saturday by honoring the life and death of Sgt. Anthony R. Maddox, a former Bloomington-Normal resident who died six years…