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From Clinton to Nashville: Chasing the dream
Someday Mr. Lincoln’s Square, Weldon Springs, Clinton Lake, and other local landmarks may become famous if Clinton’s own Doug Willis’ dreams come true. Last December, Willis, 41, recorded a music video for his original song, “Streets of Nashville” using DeWitt County landmarks and downtown Nashville, Tenn. as backdrops.
‘Moroccan’ room once fashionable
CLINTON — If you tour the C.H. Moore Homestead mansion in the near future, you’ll have to not mind their dust as they renovate the floor in the home’s main front room. But, in a way, the work adds to some of the house’s historical interest.
Here’s a place to buy flowers for mom and send kids to camp
NORMAL (25News Now) -The Kiwanis Club of Bloomington is selling flowers for Mother’s Day at the Shoppes at College Hills in Normal so kids can go to camp this summer. This is the 15th year for the fundraiser. The organization is selling bouquets through Saturday. Prices for flowers and...
King Julian to ‘move it, move it’ to a new home at Kansas Zoo
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) — King Julian, a ring-tailed lemur, found last year in a Bloomington area garage, will leave Miller Park Zoo for his new home in Kansas. The new zoo, Sunset Zoological Park in Manhattan, Kan., has two other lemurs which were also rescued from inappropriate living conditions. This will give “Julian the opportunity […]
We the Kingdom blurs the lines between 'Church Music' and rock 'n' roll in Bloomington-Normal debut
Contemporary Christian band We the Kingdom makes their Twin Cities debut this weekend, bringing their unique brand of “rock 'n' rock for the soul” to Grossinger Motors Arena as part of the Church Music Tour with Tremont native Katy Nichole. We the Kingdom’s stellar line-up of musicians includes...
New poetry from Heartland professor lays bare the beautiful mess of life's toughest moments
A new poetry collection shares one mother’s experience of becoming a parent for the first time — to twins — as her mother was dying. Poet and Heartland Community College professor Cathy Gilbert will release her debut collection this fall called My Limbs a Cradle, my Whisper a Song, written in the quiet moments between the chaos.
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