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Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes discusses the city budget for this upcoming fiscal year and the slate of city council budget meetings to prepare the budget.

Listen to the Talk-Line interview with Lee County Extension 4-H Youth Development Program Coordinator Katie Baker.

Listen to TALK-LINE interview with the Executive Director of the Lee County Industrial Development Association, Tom Demmer

Listen to the TALK-LINE interview with Ogle County State's Attorney Mike Rock talking about 2024 statistics and a criminal court case in Byron.

Shaw Local Radio's Zane Trumann interviewed Hank Walsh on the new round of nominations for the Sportsman Hall of Fame in and around La Salle County

37th District State Senator from Dixon, Li Arellano, comments on the governor’s budget address next week and a move by some Republican senators to make monies spent more transparent to the state

Listen to Connor Hopkins interview on WYYS Classic Hits 106 with Luke Tomsha, director of the Perfectly Flawed Foundation in La Salle

Joan Padilla discusses the series of regular support group and special needs care plus special activities on the February through March calendar at Hope Cancer Wellness Center

Kreider Services of Dixon Administrative Manager Sue Ely discusses the “Holiday Appeal’ fundraiser still active until the end of February, Kreider Alliance scholarship opportunities available and success stories from Lee and Jo Daviess counties.

Listen to the Walls 102 interview with Tyler Phillips and Sarah Jones of Illinois Valley Recovery, a non-profit created in 2024 to help the community with addiction and substance abuse

Ogle County Health Department Public Health Nurse Tarah Ziegler discusses an upcoming “Community Baby Shower” event in April sponsored by the Ogle County Health Department.

Listen to the Walls 102 interview with Hot Wheels Monster Truck Live driver Mike Menter, who drives Tiger Shark. Hot Wheels Monster Truck Live is coming up at the Peoria Civic Center on February 15.

Listen to the TALK-LINE interview featuring the Executive Director of the Sauk Valley Chamber of Commerce Dallas Knack discussing the recent networking programs held through the chamber and their annual dinner in January plus scholarship opportunities.

He placed eighth on the fifth season of American Idol. Bucky recently released his first independent project in the form of a 6 song EP titled, “Happy Man”

Listen to the latest Talk-Line interview by Steve Marco with SVCC's Jim Grot and Sasha Logan on upcoming events in February

Listen to the Walls 102 interview with country music artist Amy Sheppard on the Walls 102 Shaw Local Radio podcast

He aspired to be a country music singer since childhood, citing Garth Brooks as an influence. Trey Lewis stated that he had never played guitar until after completing rehabilitation for an alcohol addiction

Listen to the Walls 102 interview with Peru Police Chief Sarah Raymond here

Listen to the TALK-LINE interview with Dixon Family YMCA Chief Executive Officer Andy McFarlane discussing the opening of the new Lovett Child Care Center and more.

John Scholtes talks about how you can get involved as a volunteer along with how to apply as a family in need, listen to the interview here

Listen to the TALK-LINE interview for February 4 featuring the Executive Director of the Dixon Park District Duane Long discussing park projects, park annexation into the city of Dixon and a position open at the Edwards Nature Center.

Listen to the TALK-LINE interview for February 3 with Dixon Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Community Relations and Events Director Jennifer Lang.

Listen to the TALK-LINE interview featuring Executive Director Greg Gates and Associate Director Steve Davis from the Reagan Mass Transit District public transportation system serving Lee and Ogle counties.

Local Dixon historian and spokesperson Tom Wadsworth discusses some upcoming events including a Ronald Reagan Birth Anniversary dinner and presentation on Feb. 6, and the annual Dixon “Stuper Bowl” school fundraising trivia event on Feb. 8.

Listen to our TALK-LINE interview with the President of Goodfellows of Lee County Clara Harris talking about a free shopping day Feb. 8 at the Goodfellows location in Dixon.

The project work is slated to happen Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, weather permitting.

On Thursday, July 11 – exactly 30 years to the day that he started his first shift at the radio station – Sam Ramirez will celebrate the three decades he has spent behind the mic at WRCV/WIXN.

Kaneville resident Dan Zielenski and his four sons are all amateur ham radio operators and members of the now 100-year-old Fox River Radio League

Radio audience festivities in store as 1340 WJOL’s Scott Slocum returns to Joliet after a cross-country trip on Route 66.

The sale of three radio stations to Shaw Local Radio Company was completed Monday.

"As I flip the page on the calendar from March to April, I find myself just one year away from my fourth decade in the radio business," Cyndi Young-Puyear writes in her latest column.

WCSF-FM 88.7 is once again presenting the Spirit of Christmas, a 24-hour, commercial-free, holiday format featuring music, classic specials and more.

Starting at noon on Thanksgiving Day, University of St. Francis radio station WCSF-FM 88.7 begins its 30th season of the Spirit of Christmas, a 24-hour, commercial-free, season-long holiday format.

On his next weekly entertainment news podcast, Rikki Lee Travolta interviews Andy Mientus, performing in “Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” in Chicago.

The groundbreaking comedian is a regular panelist on NPR’s comedy news quiz “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!”

The weekly show features guests representing the best of film, television, stage, music and literature.

The radio show and podcast will highlight the writer of “Shutter Speed,” which will be showcased in a Sept. 17 stage reading in St. Charles.

His entertainment projects include Chicago-area restaurants, concert venues and cultural festivals under the Onesti Entertainment banner.

Hollywood writer and producer Anthony Sparks to appear on the ‘It’s Showtime With Rikki Lee" radio broadcast at 3 p.m. April 7, hosted by Rikki Lee Travolta of Woodstock.

The movie is a thriller with dark comedy undertones. In addition, Rikki Lee Travolta just garnered his ninth screenplay award for his original thriller about Elvis Presley.

Rikki Lee Travolta of Woodstock says Erica Stephan is the talk of Chicago for her stunning interpretation of Sally Bowles in Porchlight Music Theatre’s mounting of “Cabaret.”

The Friday afternoon radio show and podcast “It’s Showtime With Rikki Lee” this week features an interview with The Zeros' lead singer Sammy Serious.