The Girls Just Want To Have Fund$ golf outing has raised $14,000 for the Young Women Leaders Scholarship Fund.

Visitors flocked to one of the Utica-area state parks in 2024, filling the parking lots and smashing attendance records along the way. It wasn’t Starved Rock, however.

The Marshall County Historical Society is celebrating the winter days with a collection of vintage Christmas toys and reminders of winters past.

The Hennepin Public Library is hosting a Harry Potter Holiday Party on Friday, Dec. 20. Ages 12 and younger are scheduled at 3 p.m. and 13 and older are set 6:30 p.m.

Country music star Trace Adkins is coming to Princeton in August.

The Putnam County Methodist Churches will host from 1 to 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, a community blood drive at the McNabb Fire Department, Goldasich Hall, 391 N. Route 89 in McNabb.

The Chief Senachwine Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will host its Christmas party and potluck luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at the Lake Thunderbird Clubhouse.

The Putnam County Library District will host a pair of special programs the week of Dec. 9.

Putnam County High School held a ceremonial lighting Nov. 21 of the auditorium.