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Fried to headline Summer Fest 2022

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
With campaign season already in full swing, one local forum is set to host a wide array of leaders and candidates across the political spectrum. The Richardson Community Center will host its Summer Fest 2022 event on Saturday.

Fireworks not only late-night explosives

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The July 4 festivities packed a little too much firepower in northeast Lake City. What a pair of victims originally believed to be fireworks being set off in their neighborhood on NE Cherry Lane turned out to be gunfire, according to the Lake City Police Department.

Council OKs new headhunter

TONY BRITT
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The Lake City Council officially reset its search for a new chief executive. The city manager search, though, will still be paused for a few more weeks.

Lake City man killed in Illinois plane crash

NEWS STAFF
Monday, July 4, 2022
ST. JACOB, Ill. — A plane crash Saturday claimed the life of a Lake City man. According to information from the Illinois State Police, a White Piper Comanche 250 took off from St. Louis Metro East Airport in St. Jacob, Ill.
An undated painting of the banks of Lake DeSoto shows a quiet life enjoyed by Columbia County pioneers, even on Independence Day. (COURTESY)

An undated painting of the banks of Lake DeSoto shows a quiet life enjoyed by Columbia County pioneers, even on Independence Day. (COURTESY)

Independence through the years: How Columbia County has historically celebrated the Fourth of July

NEWS STAFF
Friday, July 1, 2022
As we come together to honor our nation’s Independence, I thought that it would be fun to look back at the past and see how our community has observed the 4th of July over the years and how those events have shifted and changed.
A file photo shows the Catholic Charities' food truck, which the organization acquired in February. Catholic Charities is now facing a food shortage in its efforts to help food insecure families. (FILE)

A file photo shows the Catholic Charities' food truck, which the organization acquired in February. Catholic Charities is now facing a food shortage in its efforts to help food insecure families. (FILE)

Catholic Charities facing food ‘crisis’

TONY BRITT
Friday, July 1, 2022
If you don’t have food, what do you do? That is the question that some Catholic Charities clients — as well as the agency itself — are currently facing.