News came Wednesday that Chicago Cubs utility man Ben Zobrist, the 2016 World Series MVP, will be absent from the team for a while.

GLASFORD - Roger Alvey, superintendent of Illini Bluffs Community Unit School District #327, has been named the 2019 Superintendent of Distinction by his colleagues in the Central Illinois Valley Region of the Illinois Association of School Administrators.

LEROY - Why did the turtle try to cross the road?Maybe to pitch woo. That's what cops think.

Delta on the Square is no more, at least not in Galva. But some of its New Orleans-inspired entrees will live elsewhere, it appears.

PEORIA - In a convergence of good ideas, Peoria Public Schools is promoting its "Read Peoria" reading initiative with 14 Little Free Libraries designed, constructed and installed by student in the Woodruff Career and Training Center's construction trades program.

PEORIA - Is it wrong, amid otherwise impressive foodstuffs, to declare a dipping sauce your favorite part of a meal?That's the odd (and fantastic) happenstance during a recent stop at Sugar Wood-Fired Bistro & Gourmet Treats.

The Summer of Love is well behind us, but the sentiments of the sixties and seventies live on through the music of such classic rockers as The Turtles and The Buckinghams. The Happy Together Tour 2019 is celebrating its 10th anniversary and makes a return trip in August to the Peoria Civic Center Theater.