Do you know how to make a pizza? Each year during National Agriculture Week, the Joliet Junior College Weitendorf Agricultural Center is the home for…
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OK, I admit it. I already have some cool crops planted in containers and a few in the ground. The tough ones — spinach, carrots,…
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Ah, election time. When television and radio ads for candidates compete with ED, nose-flushing and ambulance-chasing attorney commercials. A time when creative writing moves from…
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By Sandy Vasko Set the way-back machine for June, 1877; place Mokena. From the Joliet Weekly Sun: “Mokena is a good-sized village. Seven hundred is…
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Spring is finally here, well early spring at least. Our soil outside is still too wet to work, but you can still get your hands…
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By Sandy Vasko Once again, we are going to look at the small bits that made up a town’s everyday life, if not its history;…
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I am about to start my 12th year of writing about agriculture in Will County. Whenever I want an easy night at the computer, penning…
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Spring is just around the corner. We really couldn’t tell by the thermometer. It felt mostly like mi- fall or early spring this entire mild…
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