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“Smile on the Arts” is the theme for this year’s Rockford Area Arts Council awards.
Mary McNamara Bernsten is the executive director of the Rockford Area Arts Council. She said dental organizations sponsored this event.
“It was an intentional ask of our regional dental practices. We received a generous sponsorship from Dr. Zak back in the fall for the city of Rockford Poet Laureate,” she said. “And when that Poet Laureate was installed, our fund development committee said to each other ‘what if we approached that group?’”
McNamara said these dental organizations recognize and acknowledge the impact that the arts have on the community.
The average sale price was $152,716 in February, the highest on record
Rockford Area Realtors membership up roughly 6% so far in 2021
ROCKFORD When the coronavirus upended her life as a bartender last year, Dani Powers seized an opportunity to make a career switch she had long considered.
Powers, 36, had spent her entire adult life working in the hospitality industry, but it was brutalized by pandemic-related shutdowns last year, stripping an estimated $57.4 million out of restaurants and bars in Rockford alone, according to city tax data. Instead of working an eight-hour shift five days a week, now I m working maybe a three- or four-hour shift maybe three nights a week, she said. I didn t want to go back to being in that bind again with the restaurant industry.
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The average home sale price rose 9%, or $12,543, last year, he said. That increase, going from $139,171 in 2019 to $151,714 this past year, was the largest year-over-year price increase and the highest price since local statistics have been collected, dating back to 1998, according to the Realtors group.
Brown said that the pandemic has created more remote work environments for some, meaning that families have been searching for a bigger space to accommodate their needs.
Mortgage rates fell to record lows 16 times throughout 2020. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate started out at three-year low of 3.51% in January and broke its own record three times in December. It fell to 2.66% by the end of the year.