Rodney Connor left, a member of the Dwight Economic Alliance board, presents Randy Irvin with a plaque as being named DEA’s Volunteer of the Year.
Randy Irvin, Dwight DEA Volunteer of the Year
Proposed Immigrant Detention Center Moves Before Dwight Village Board
By Madelyn Fogarty Approximately 200 people gathered at a public hearing held before Dwight’s Planning Commission regarding the possible annexation of an 88-acre parcel of land to accommodate the construction and operation of a proposed Federal Detention Center. Immigration Centers…
Dwight Planning Commission Votes Yes on Annexation Agreement
The Paper received a copy of this question and answer pamphlet written by Immigration Centers of America, the private firm looking to build a federal immigration detention center in Dwight. The Planning Commission voted yes on an annexation agreement at…
Coach Joe and Dwight
It is basketball time everywhere, and it is most definitely basketball time in Dwight, Illinois. The 8th grade basketball team has advanced to the state tournament, cementing them as a top 4 team in the state. I just wanted to…
He Set the Ice On Fire
Now Mike Oughton is Headed to ISU’s Hall of Fame Mike Oughton remembers his very first Blackhawks hockey game. It was back in the 1960s, when he was a 10-year-old who had developed a love of the ice, the puck…
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A Hero Among Us
Odell Hellcat Pilot Named One of Illinois’ Top 200 Veterans Arthur Leach remembers flying a Grumman fighter over China during the second World War, dodging tracer bullets, one after another. Suddenly, he felt something warm running down his back, but…
‘The Rug Guy’ Keeps Busy On Antique Loom
Eighty-eight-year-old Herb Voigts has been retired from the state highway department for nearly 30 years now and one way he keeps busy is by making rugs. Voigts owns 260 acres in rural Dwight and lives on the farm where he…
Single Mom Loves Farm Life
By Rachael Reynolds-Soucie rachaelthepaper@gmail.com Thirty-two acres would be a lot for any livestock farmer to maintain with good help. But Kim Snyder does it all by herself, seven days a week, 352 days a year. The single mom is…
Dwight Resident Gets the Sister She Always Wanted
By Rachael Reynolds-Souci—- Nancy Louis of Dwight always wanted a sister, but she was adopted and became an only child growing up on a farm in Kempton. Her loving parents, James and Bernice Bergan, never kept the adoption a secret…