Dave DiVincenzo’s friendship with Santa Claus is actually quite a bit newer than most folks would believe. He wouldn’t have called himself a Christmas person at all.

Jeff Vogen has been announcing sporting events at Morris Community High School for more than 20 years

A group of Gardner South-Wilmington Students began the Student Assistance Fund in 2017, a fund available to those in need that's been kept up ever since.

Meet Joshua Jahn. His wife and two small children were struck and killed by a drunk driver in 2008. He's spent most of the past two decades speaking to DUI convicts and getting them to rethink their decisions.

Founded in 1979 officially, Operation St. Nick has been a staple of Grundy County since the early 80s, relying entirely on funding from its annual Christmas radio auction.

It's been a little over a year since the Grundy Eunoia Wellness Center opened in Mazon, and they have been kept busy.

Angela Roudis, a sixth-to eighth-grade teacher in the Cross-Categorical program at Coal City Middle School, said she’s worked with Gina Pens the last four years and called her “an amazing person who always puts others before herself.”

The Morris Herald-News honors the everyday heroes making a difference in Grundy County through their hard work, kindness and dedication.

When it was established in 1925, nearly all of the founders of Veterans of Foreign Wars St. Juvin Post 1336 had a common thread — they served in World War I. Fast forward a century later, and the majority of the Coal City group’s members are Vietnam War veterans.