Families and community members of all ages are invited to the second annual DeKalb County Earth Fest on Saturday, a chance to learn about sustainable living, celebrate the environment and have a little fun.

The Sycamore Music Boosters will host a mattress sale fundraiser on Sunday, with proceeds going to help Sycamore music students purchase uniforms and equipment and provide scholarships.

The DeKalb Public Library will host a workshop Sunday on sewing machine maintenance.

Activists in DeKalb are planning a mass protest on Saturday to rally against the Trump administration over what they call a “brazen power grab” disrupting federal institutions and depriving working people of needed jobs and services. Partisan and nonpartisan groups are expected.

Kishwaukee College will include all fees and textbooks in the cost of tuition starting in the summer 2025 semester, a move meant to increase cost transparency for prospective students, college President Laurie Borowicz said.

The city of DeKalb and the Citizens’ Community Enhancement Commission are accepting artists’ design ideas for a new mural downtown. The mural will be painted on the eastern facade of the building at the northwest corner of East Lincoln Highway and Seventh Street.

A Waterman woman succumbed to her injuries after a car she was driving crashed and rolled over multiple times early Tuesday west of Hinckley, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday.

Sycamore Middle School recently celebrated its students of the month for February.

The DeKalb Community Cleat Closet will host a second distribution event on April 5.