Category: Stateline area

  • Car Show Brings Big Business to Shopping Plaza

    By Jessica Lamberty Correspondent Last May, Ron Horton and the Capella Family of Wings Etc. organized a 10-week car cruise-in at the Antioch Shopping Plaza parking lot by Piggly Wiggly, 460 Orchard St. It is held every second and fourth Tuesday of May through September. The event runs from 4 until 8 p.m. with drawings…

  • LABORIOUS LOVE

    Sandra Alcegaire, a member of NorthBridge Church, loads up wheelbarrow with mulch during her church’s annual ShareFest event held at Pedersen Park in Antioch on Saturday, May 5. Alcegaire, of Antioch, was among more than 150 volunteers from NorthBridge Church who pitched in during the church’s annual ShareFest campaign. Volunteers also removed trees and overgrown…

  • Village Thrift Shop of Antioch to celebrate a decade

    By Jessica Lamberty Correspondent In June, The Village Thrift Shop on Main Street in Antioch marks its 10th anniversary, and will look to celebrate the milestone through a variety of specials and sales. Owner Jennifer Price started the business with the community in mind. “We want to be an asset to the community and help…

  • Eco Fair slated for April 28

    By Gail Peckler-Dziki Correspondent The Antioch 2018 Eco Fair is Saturday, April 28 from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Antioch Township Center. Anna Andersen joined the commission late last fall and has been working, along with other commission members, to craft a different sort of fair for this year. There is a creative poster…

  • ARTISTIC DIRECTION

    Amanda Spera (right), a 2015 graduate of Antioch Community High School who attends University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and her volleyball teammate Brittany Robinson, of Menomonee Falls, Wis., decorates a pumpkin with residents of Fairhaven Senior Services in Whitewater Oct. 19 (Tom Ganser/The Report)

  • Illinois authorities still seek assault suspect

    Since Friday, Illinois authorities continue to search for a 26-year-old Hebron man accused of sexually assaulting a child, and the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information to call them immediately. Esau Ancheyta Hernandez, who allegedly assaulted a child in the 1200 block of Hebron Road in Hebron, about seven miles west of…

  • Local author digs deep into historical mysteries

    By Sandra Landen Machaj Correspondent When we read a work of published writing, we often think that the author is someone special, unlike the everyday people living in our neighborhood with a family and a full time job. In reality, most authors are special, but they also may be our next door neighbor, who like…

  • Area art studio finds its niche with paint and sip classes

    WHAT: Studio 25 Art Creations Inc. WHERE: 5 Nippersink Boulevard, Fox Lake, Ill. CONTACT: (224) 225-1563 ONLINE: studio25artcreations.com By Jason Arndt Editor Amanda Munsen is not just an owner of an art studio, but an artist herself, and wanted to share her passion with her hometown of Fox Lake, Ill. Munsen, who opened Studio 25…

  • Antioch to host wizard-themed event

    Antioch’s Wizard Weekend will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 17, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 18, in downtown Antioch. Attendees will celebrate all things magical during the event. People can bring their wands, owls and dress up for this event. There will also be a…

  • PASS THE CROWN

    Miss Antioch for 2016 Melissa Nettgen, 20, places the royal crown upon the head of Jessica Lamberty, 17, who was selected to be Miss Antioch for 2017, as 2016 Junior Miss Antioch Noelle Roskopf, 16, looks on during the annual pageant held at the Antioch Community High School, 1133 Main St., on Saturday, May 20.…