Stronghurst News

One can always celebrate when the town has a new business. Biggsville has the Lynn Hotel hosting guests and events weekly if not daily, and La Harpe has the Annex which has been used for everything from meetings of the bio-diesel ventures to this week's $8100 an acre sale of farm land! But this week, Stronghurst is celebrating a new business in ...

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Bobbi Tapscott, adminstrator at the OakWood Estates Retirement Village, stands in a room at the facility in Stronghurst, Ill.

I was so surprised to hear at the Henderson County Republican Women's Annual meeting that our county is being bombarded with break-ins. Jennifer Sparrow from Lomax was very concerned because there had been six break-ins in and around Lomax she said.

I was extremely fortunate last week to get a signed copy of JD Wetterling's latest book, "No Time To Waste" just in time to take it on my 2 1/2 hour flight to Orlando, Florida.

STONE GLEANINGS: Mr. Lewis moved from the W. M. James house into Mrs. Frank Johnson's house in the east part of town.

GLADSTONE GLEANINGS: Mrs. Will Graham and sons, Loren and Howard, went to Ely, Ia to remain over the 4th of July with her son Farrell and family.

A circus came to town last evening in Stronghurst at the Henderson County's fairground.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye Ed Bruce of Stronghurst, Ill., makes a burn pile Monday out of mold-covered wood, insulation and debris from his recently acquired flood-damaged house in Stevenson Lake, Ill.

OLENA OBSERVATIONS: Keith Hicks and Lee Davis went on the excursion Sabbath day on the new pleasure craft, the Capitol.

Meet your neighbor, Judy Johnson, who resides in Roseville. Judy currently works at Bob's T.V. and Appliance furniture store in Stronghurst and Roseville, and as a Celebrating Home consultant, which she has done for the past 28 years.

They always show up for work, they are never late and they work for peanuts. Well, perhaps not exactly peanuts: more likely leafy spurge, wild grape vines and an occasional helping of poison ivy.

MEDIA MEANDERINGS: Thomas Wilson returned from Florida where he purchased a home and soon will move there.