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79% of voters said yes to the city’s road tax referendum in Tuesday’s primary election. Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara thanked voters for investing in their infrastructure. The sales tax has been in place since 2007, when voters decided to move from funding their road improvements with a city sticker.
WREX-TV reports the annual sales tax raised $16 million last year, with 30% of it coming from people who live outside Rockford. It will be in place for at least five years, when it’s up for renewal again.
In contested races for Rockford City Council, Gabrielle Torina, Janessa Wilkins, Tuffy Quinonez, and Robert Walsh came out on top.
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Violetta Todorova is using free time found during the pandemic to work on a project of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for violin. Courtesy: Calder the Band released a single, Canon in D, this month. Previous Next
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Making music in pandemic
Keiara Carr | For The Journal Gazette
Violetta Todorova always planned to record Johann Sebastian Bach s sonatas and partitas for violin . eventually.
It was a dream between her responsibilities as concertmaster for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and violin professor at Taylor University.
The Ventures - Christmas Album
The Ventures Christmas album from 1965 is one of my favorites. Each track features a classic rock riff that morphs into a holiday tune. For example, The Ventures take the Ray Charles tune, What d I say, substituting guitar for that opening keyboard riff. Then they quickly push the throttle into Jingle Bells.
The band also takes the Beatles I feel fine and blends it seamlessly into Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. These tracks are very 60s, almost cliches, but have just the right amount of distortion to make them irresistible. I should note the copy we have at WNIJ belongs to Susan Stephens, and last I checked this CD is out of print. Perhaps we should insure it!