From The Register-Mail:
The Register-Mail was named second-best small daily newspaper in Illinois Thursday night. And our website was ranked the best among our peers.
The newspaper picked up 16 awards in the annual Illinois Associated Press Editors Association contest Thursday night. Assistant Editor Jay Redfern, Local News Editor Rob Buck and I attended the awards dinner in Springfield. The Register-Mail has earned 16 awards in the contest each of the previous two years as well…
Also, congratulations to Ryan Sweikert, who, as a student at Knox College, put together a series on Nicholas Sheley, who is accused of a murder spree that included a Galesburg victim. We published his series, developed with the help of Knox Journalism Chair Marilyn Webb, which earned third place in the Enterprise Series category. Ryan went on to work as the newspaper’s weekend reporter before moving to Chicago. Ryan is the second Knox College student to win an award for The R-M in recent years. Matt Wheaton won a third place award in 2009.
From NewLenoxPatch:
Lincoln-Way West just graduated its first class, and in two short years the high school is producing a number of quality student athletes.
Recently, the school honored 19 students who will continue their academic and athletic careers by playing their sport in college. Eight additional West students signed to play in college earlier this year…
Robert Hubbard is a 2 year SWSC Red All-Conference Selection and scored in double figures 19 times this season for the varsity basketball team. He scored a season high of 22 points vs. Thornton. He started every game this season. He was picked for the Herald News and Southtown Star All-Area Selection. Robert will continue his academics and basketball at Knox College in the fall.
From The Register-Mail:
In the early 1820s the Rev. George Washington Gale was offering instruction and living quarters for young men wishing to prepare for the Christian ministry from his farm near Whitesboro, N.Y. He had a dream of starting a similar institution in the Mississippi River Valley with central Illinois being a possible location…
In May 1975 two recent graduates of Knox College decided to carry out a whim of riding their 10-speed bicycles along the same route, from Utica, N.Y., to Galesburg, taken by a group of original colonists. At the time Mike Briggs was news director at WGIL Radio and Phil Watkins was public relations director at Carl Sandburg College. Watkins suggested the route because of a detailed diary kept during the trek by Mrs. Jerusha (Eli) Farnham, her’s being the only diary kept by any of the original colonists…
Tracking History was fortunate to visit by phone with Mike and Phil during the past week. Phil Watkins lives in East Olympia, Wash., and owns his own public affairs corporation. Mike Briggs is in Washington, D.C,. and is the communications director for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
From The Register-Mail:
Southern Illinois University medical student Lance Hoffman of Galesburg is completing an internship at Knoxville Clinic, a family practice in Knoxville. Hoffman, a 2004 graduate of Galesburg High School, studied pre-med at Knox College until 2008 and is now at the end of his third year at SIU’s School of Medicine.
From The Register-Mail:
The Oprheum Theatre has received a $5,000 pledge from Arts Midwest that will be used to support a week-long program for area dance students with a teacher from the Moscow Ballet.
Principle dancer/teacher Svetlana Todinova with the Moscow Ballet, which will be performing at the Orpheum in December, will be in Galesburg the first week of August. She will host an intensive program for approximately 40 area dance students at Harbach Theatre at Knox College, according to Orpheum President Kate Francis.
Knox will complement the dance instruction with workshops on physical therapy, dance history, nutrition, audition preparation, etc with local experts. The college will also provide lunch for participants. The week-long experience will culminate Aug. 5 with an evening meet and greet with Todinova and a student showcase at the Orpheum Theatre. This event will be free and open to the general public.
From Post-Tribune:
Planting native species at Cowles Bog on Friday afternoon was an adventure in the mud for about 20 college students.
“It’s definitely not typical gardening,” said 20-year-old Brittany Wisniewski, one of the hearty young people from Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin who were helping to restore degraded wetlands…
Located in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore near Dune Acres, Cowles Bog proved to be a tough place to put the likes of Carex stricta and hop sedge in the soil…
