Two of Mabel Velge’s passions melded Monday – a sunny Earth Day, and the Rock Island High School track at the football stadium. Several local education and athletic leaders gathered there Monday afternoon to honor the longtime Rock Island runner, who bequeathed $372,000 to the Rock Island-Milan Education Foundation (RIMEF) to establish an annual scholarship […]
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Interim Rock Island-Milan school superintendent Alan Boucher gave the annual “State of the Schools” address Tuesday at the noon joint meeting of the Rock Island Kiwanis and Rotary clubs at the QC Botanical Center. He is superintendent just through Dec. 31, 2023, since to maintain his Illinois pension, he has to keep days worked below […]