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Rockford City Market will have 20 first-time vendors — including Mighty Potato — when its 16th season begins on Friday.
Learn more of what’s in store in the full story at RockRiverCurrent⚫️com.
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Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity celebrated Tuesday the work of students from East, Jefferson and Guilford high schools who built three homes from the ground up.
The work is part of each school’s construction trades program, teaching students the trade while helping provide a family with an affordable first home.
Full story at RockRiverCurrent⚫️com.
📸: @thekevinhaas
Donating blood could save you on your tax bill under a proposal introduced by state Rep. Maurice West.
People who donate four or more times a year would receive a $250 credit. The goal is to incentivize more donations around the state.
Learn more about the proposal and its impact on tax revenue in the full story at RockRiverCurrent⚫️com.
📸: @thekevinhaas
Rockford chef and restaurateur Paul Sletten has purchased the former Irish Rose Saloon, which has been closed for more than two years.
He plans to make minimal tweaks and keep the bar’s character intact before reopening as Harvey Wallbangers this summer.
Learn more about the plans in the full story at RockRiverCurrent⚫️com.
📸: @thekevinhaas
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Aspiring wrestlers train and entertain at Premier Pro Wrestling in Rockford, an independent promotion that puts on weekly shows from its headquarters at 3839 Broadway.
We spent time with them behind the scenes and at ringside to learn more about the men behind the showtime personalities.
Learn more about the performers behind the show and how they defy wrestling stereotypes in the full story at RockRiverCurrent ⚫️com.
📸: @thekevinhaas / @rockrivercurrent
Construction is underway on a $32 million project to repurpose the Public Safety Building into a new Family Court Center.
Works is expected to last about 13 months and create 125 construction jobs.
Learn more in the full story at RockRiverCurrent⚫️com.
📸: @thekevinhaas
In Roscoe, knit happens. 🧶
A Skein Away opens Saturday at 5003 Hononegah Road, suite 2, Roscoe.
The new yarn shop, which will also offer classes in knitting and crochet, is owned by fourth-generation knitter and first-time entrepreneur Sara Wirth.
• Read the full yarn by @karakoudas_helen at RockRiverCurrent⚫️com.
📸: @thekevinhaas
Raising Cane’s arrival in Rockford drew long lines of people — some who arrived last night in anticipation of opening day and the chance to win free Cane’s for a year.
The restaurant opens at 10 a.m. today at 6445 E. State St., Rockford.
📸: @thekevinhaas
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A Mongolian stir-fry restaurant is coming to this former Applebee's.
The owner of a downtown Rockford decor shop is expanding with a second retail business in Beloit.
Owner of Elora Home Interiors in downtown Rockford expands with second retail business in Beloit
By Kevin Haas Rock River Current Get our new mobile app BELOIT, Wis. — The owner of Elora Home Interiors
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The Pomodoro will close on May 24 after more than four years in business.
'It hurts. It truly does.' | The Pomodoro in Loves Park to close
By Kevin Haas Rock River Current Get our newsletter LOVES PARK — The Pomodoro — a locally owned restaurant specializing
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Rockford art exhibit gives new way to experience Impressionism
Inside the historic 'untouched' former Chick House Hotel in downtown Rockford
Demoition underway at former Rockford elementary school
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