By Brandon LaChance Walking through the downtown, business streets of Dwight, you’ll see restaurants, bars, hair salons, shops and then a sign …Unpossible Mead. Mead is a type of alcohol Brian Galbreath (38 from Coal City) has been creating, doctoring,…
By Brandon LaChance Local Farmers Change Their Business Strategy The world is always changing and moving towards something different. Even in farming. Once upon a time, a farmer raised animals, grew vegetables and oats, and then sold them to a…
Dwight Trojans Find New Home in Tri-County Conference, Vermilion Valley Conference By Brandon LaChance The school year is over and sports are almost finished as boys tennis and girls track and field had their IHSA State Tournaments over the…
Dwight Historical Society Shares 27 Locals Who Played in the MLB By Brandon LaChance Baseball has been played on American soil since the 1860s and Major League Baseball was formed in 1903. These are years, landmarks easily found all over…
Ready for Life after Jewelry By Brandon LaChance Wanting to prove to his dad he could work and be useful, 8-year old Del Hancock accepted the job of raising four pigs in 1939. Hancock, who lived in Marion, took the…
University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s team captain, and former Dwight Trojan, Justin Fox – a senior from Emington – has earned the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Max Sparger Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete Award for 2021. Fox, majoring in agriculture business and animal science…
Dwight FCCLA competed at the state level in a STAR event called chatper service display. Izzy Burkhardt, Ella Kargle, and Nellie Rieke created a display that encompassed all they had accomplished since January. They decided to hold a dress drive…
Following a feature this past October on “Backstory with Larry Potash”, area artist Cat Clausen, Dwight, will once again be on WGN during the “Closer” segment of Potash’s “Backstory”. The episode will air Saturday, April 10, at 10:30 p.m., then…
