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Jake Beach (left) and Steve Beach at Savage Building Systems in Varna. Steve Beach owns the business; son Jake works on one of the crews

Save It? Sleeve It

VARNA – A construction contractor for decades, Steve Beach saw the same problem over and over.With pole barns and post-frame...
Bee Keeper, Luke Harvey, of Chillicothe

The Business Of Bees

About one-third of the food eaten in the U.S. comes from insect pollinated plants. Honey bees are responsible for 80...
Seeding in the Green House

Eating Local Food Matters

Remember the early days of the pandemic when store shelves emptied and even staples like flour were hard to find?I...
This third generation of sisters hopes to carry on the retail legacy.

A Sentimental Journey

Forty years ago, two sisters — Karen Ganz and Darlene Feser — bought the empty CILCO building on the square...
Patrick Kirchhofer

From Breadbasket to Breadbasket

The agriculture sector of our economy has been on a wild ride since the first of the year. The Russian...
Central Illinois Cornfield

Harvesting Thankfulness

Emily and Rob Sharkey harvesting a corn field together on their family farmWhen our kids were...
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