Phyllis Smith of Plymouth passed away on Tuesday, October 8th.  She was very active in our community as well as being village clerk.  She leaves behind a large family to mourn her passing as well as many friends.  Our…

  Well my week has mostly been about Spoon River.  As you know by now, I set up a large booth at Smithfield at the Red Brick School gym.  As I have only a VW and a Caravan, it takes…

  Lindsey Moore, who lives east of Plymouth, made front page news in the Quincy Herald-Whig on Sunday.  There is a great photo of her nose to nose with one of her alpacas.  Lindsey owns Little Creek Alpacas.  Lindsey moved…

“Build it and they will come” they may not stay but they will come. Well maybe they will not come either. If you are guessing it was a rough week in the B&B business, you are correct.  Had a lady…

  The Staff Pastor Parrish Relations Committee of Living Faith UMC met on Monday evening to work on forms for the church charge conference which will be held in October.  Also went to Quincy on Monday to find some plastic…

  Two of the B&B guests  here for a wedding in the area last weekend stayed an extra day to take in more of what our area has to offer.  Met them in Colchester on Sunday after the parade.  They…

  The holidays are the worst.  If you are a widow or a widower, you know what I mean.  Thanksgiving and Christmas, there are other people around so they usually are not so bad.  Then there is Labor Day.  It…

  In April the Voice printed a map of the future location of wind turbines in McDonough and Warren counties.  Since I have a physics degree and am very much in favor of conservation and trying to save our planet…

  Many years ago when I taught at Central, I taught with Anna Veile. I see her son Bernie often at auctions. Her family lived in Camp Point.  Noted in the paper that she passed away on Wednesday.  Our sympathy…

  Noticed that two of my kitties were eating a lot more.  Then I noticed that they were getting their water dirty.  Have to admit that I was a lot slow about the fact that a coon was getting into…