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The Rock Island Public Library has expanded its newspaper collection by adding a service called, NewsBank.
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CommunityThis is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.One day in February of 1834, four Winnebago Indians appeared in the little frontier mining village of Dubuque in what…
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CommunityThis is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.We all know from experience how relentlessly the Wheel of Fortune turns, but seldom has it turned as fast as it did for…
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Communities in Western Illinois, including Rock Island and Moline, will get nearly $2 million to help fix up vacant properties.
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CommunityThe project to build the first 3D printed home in Iowa has suffered a setback.
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CommunityThis is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.It was the Scottish poet Robert Burns who reminded us that the best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry. Along these…
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CommunityThis is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.We all agree, don’t we, that civilization is on its last legs? A few more years, at most. Who’s to blame, do you think?…
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CommunityThis is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.To some residents of Clinton, Iowa, the ad in the local newspaper promising a seven-day excursion to the Falls of St.…
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The city of Moline hoped to strengthen children's literacy at a block party last week. This celebration came from a partnership between Project NOW and the Greater Quad Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
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CommunityA trail that connects the Quad Cities to both Washington state and Washington D.C is over halfway done.