Day: May 18, 2022

By AARON FREY For The Weekly Post GALESBURG – Caitlin Evans came home one day and had a question for her parents. Who is Doogie Howser? As Evans gets set to graduate today, May 19, from Carl Sandburg College’s associate degree nursing program at only 17 years old, it’s understandable that she’s drawn comparisons to the teenage doctor played by Neil Patrick Harris on the 1990s sitcom. “Someone called me that, and I had no idea (what it meant),” Evans said. Thirty-year-old pop culture references are among the few things Evans isn’t well schooled in. When she was 13, Evans took…

Rambling through central Illinois, counting the days until the final season of “Peaky Blinders” airs on Netflix on June 10. • • • The restaurant roulette wheel is spinning in Elmwood, where the Uptown Cafe is soon moving to the former Cerno’s location at 118 E. Main St. Occupying the space vacated by Uptown Cafe at 110 N. Magnolia St. will be a Mexican restaurant operated by Dana Cardenas of Havana. Cardenas is seeking a liquor license from the City of Elmwood and plans to call her restaurant Mi Ranchito. Opening is likely slated for July. Margaritas on Magnolia anyone?…

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Arriving late with vehicle nets jail time for man HANNA CITY – Tardiness with his new girlfriend’s vehicle resulted in the arrest of a man north of Hanna City, according to authorities. Dolan R. Motes, 52, was taken into custody about 8 p.m. April 27 after he returned to his girlfriend’s residence in the 13800 block of W. Cottonwood Rd. west of Edwards. The 53-year-old woman told a Peoria County Sheriff’s deputy Motes drove to work in her 2010 Jeep Cherokee…