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Normally, on the first day of Winter, December 21st (or, the Winter solstice) here in the Rockford area, we react with...well, we don't really react because it's already cold and usually snowy, and it's felt like winter for weeks already.

According to Governor Pritzker, Illinois is about to be on the receiving end of the first shipment of 109,000 dosages of COVID-19 vaccine.

While 2020 has pretty much sucked for most human beings, it's probably been the best year ever for the family dog or cat.

You've got kids, or maybe you've got grandkids. One of the joys of being a parent/grandparent (at least for my wife and me) was taking the kids to see Santa during the holiday season.

Since we've officially entered the "giving season," lots of us are looking for charitable groups and organizations that could really use a helping hand. Given the pandemic and resulting hardships, there's a pretty big list of them asking for help.

Because of this ongoing pandemic, we're doing a lot of things differently this year than we normally do. One of those things is holiday shopping. More people started earlier, and more are shopping online.

With Zoom meetings now being a part of many people's daily lives, is it any surprise that scammers are looking to capitalize on millions of potential new victims?

In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that we have an artificial (or phony, as my two brats...I mean wonderful kids) Christmas tree at our house. And, it's things like this that make me glad we do.

Simply put, one of Rockford's most loved photographers, and Lowe's employee, is thankful for a coworker who is the reason he's alive today.

Okay, but as the saying goes, just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do it.