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Golf tourney to support disabled children

SPRINGFIELD – No child should feel excluded – especially when it comes to a physical or mental disability. That’s why Springfield’s Tom Chesnut partnered with The Arc Lane County to host a charity golf event centered around raising money and support for children with disabilities. …

County organizations, students shelter unhoused

Constructing a Brighter Future has built seven shelters for formerly unhoused people in the last year, and this is just the beginning. It’s not a secret that the homeless crisis is a convoluted issue that has required, and will continue to require, constant political discussion…

Lions halt winless streak

COTTAGE GROVE – Cottage Grove High School was on dreadful streak, having lost 29 of its last 30 football games – including the last 17 in a row. New Lions head coach Steve Turner sensed that his team was getting better, that a breakthrough might…

Play review: Speed dating William Shakespeare

SPRINGFIELD — What do you get when you combine three actors, 37 plays and one Elizabethan playwright? You get “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” now playing at Pegasus Playhouse in Springfield. The 97-minute parody of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and histories is directed by…