Rockford Events

Rockford Reads has successfully brought together community volunteers and elementary students to work jointly on reading skills since 2001, and they need more volunteers as we head into 2020.

Unless the last things in the world you'd find interesting are the final full moon of the decade and a meteor shower.

Circle of Change Veterans Dog Program describes itself as "Veterans Helping Dogs Helping Veterans." It's a very accurate description.

Bob Theroux, chaplain for the Rockford Chapter of Vietnam2Now started "Christmas For Vets" in 2001, and it's grown a lot since then.

The "Secret Sister" gift exchange is back, and still illegal. And, with Medicare open enrollment going on, watch out for those who wish to "help you."

As I write this, Rockford's current temperature is 10 degrees, with a "feels like," or windchill of 5 below zero.

So, you got your garbage together last night, then schlepped it out to the curb. Yeah, about that...

Daylight Saving Time (DST) was first enacted by the federal government March 19, 1918, during World War I, as a way to conserve coal.

I figure with Halloween upon us, you may have been giving at least a little bit of thought to the topic of candy.

I had the chance to visit a Circle of Change dog training program recently, and I've gotta tell you, this is something really special.