MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (October 17, 2023) — Earlier this month, Monmouth College hosted a ceremony to dedicate a headstone for respected nineteenth-century citizen Champion Miller, a former slave who bought his freedom.

But how were esteemed members of a community memorialized roughly 6,000 years ago?

GALESBURG, ILLINOIS (October 16, 2023) — Nova Singers, under the direction of Dr Laura Lane, opens their 2023-24 season with two performances of When We Love, Saturday, October 21, 7:30PM, at First Lutheran Church, 364 E Water Street, Galesburg, and Sunday, October 22, 4PM, at St Paul Lutheran Church, 2136 Brady Street, Davenport.

WHITEWATER, WISCONSIN (October 16, 2023) — Robert Murphy, from Geneseo, Illinois, who is studying Biology, has been named a resident assistant (RA) at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater for the 2023-24 academic year.

RAs are part-time student staff members who live in the residence halls with students, serve as a resource and positive role model, and help build a sense of community by hosting floor events.

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 16, 2023) — The Biden Administration’s EPA announced on Friday, October 13, its withdrawal of a burdensome cybersecurity mandate that Iowa Attorney General Bird challenged in a lawsuit in March 2023. This mandate would have significantly raised water prices for Iowans in small and rural public water systems. Iowa joined the Missouri-led lawsuit, along with Arkansas and the American Water Works Association and National Rural Water Association.