Mayor Tom McNamara joins Steve Summers on This Week in the Stateline to talk about the city's public safety initiatives after the year-end crime data was released earlier this week. They also talked about Rockford ranking on the Wall Street Journal's emerging housing market list, Rockford Promise, new garbage bins coming to city residents and more.
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Dennis Horton, director of the Rockford Regional Office of the Better Business Bureau, joins Steve Summers on This Week in the Stateline to warn about back-to-school scams.
"Kids are heading back to school, and that signals the end of summer, but it does also signal the beginning of back-to-school scams," Horton said.
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Hononegah Forest Preserve is the Forest Preserves of Winnebago County's oldest preseve and one of its most popular. This year the Forest Preserves of Winnebago County celebrates 100 years. (Photo by Samantha Crooks/Forest Preserves of Winnebago County)[/caption]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Forest Preserves of Winnebago County.
Samantha Crooks, communications coordinator for the Forest Preserves, joins Steve Summers on This Week in the Stateline to talk about some of the ways the organization will celebrate its first century. (Listen to the full interview at the bottom of this article.)
She has challenged people to explore all 44 of the forest preserves this year in honor of the 100th anniversary.
The Forest Preserves of Winnebago County were created by a public vote in November 1922. It was the third forest preserve to be created in the state. The preserves now encompasses 11,500 acres of woods, wetlands, rivers, prairies and ponds in Winnebago County.
"We hear a lot of people just thanking us for what we do and they're very thankful to have a place to go to to just unwind and kind of get away from work stress," Crooks said.
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Samantha Crooks is communications coordinator for the Forest Preserves of Winnebago County. (Photo provided by Forest Preserves of Winnebago County)[/caption]
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Mayor Tom McNamara joins Steve Summers on This Week in the Stateline to talk about the next 13th Ward alderman, upcoming 815 Day celebrations, the next step in the proposal to redevelop Barber-Colman, the start of construction to bring fiber optic cable across Rockford, and other happenings from the past week in Rockford.
