On this episode of Talk Line, host Brandon Clark and Discover Dixon's Lucas Pauley chat about the Best of Dixon nominations, Discover Dixon's March career fair, the Founder's Day event in April, City Market vendor applications and more. 

The Whiteside Forum will host Bucky Halker and his presentation of “This Land is Your Land: The Folksongs of Woody Guthrie” on Sunday, March 22, in Morrison.

March 17 marks the 2026 primary, where Whiteside, Lee and Carroll county voters can pull a Democratic or Republican ballot to pick who appears on the ballot come November. All voters, partisan or not, can weigh in on referendum questions.

Get caught up on Sauk Valley news, sports and features from the week of Feb. 20-26, 2026.

The touch-a-truck event of Rock Falls, known as “The Big One,” is now recognized as the largest such event in the United States, event chairman John Watts announced.

The band, which will be playing Celtic music, formed its club in 2000 and recently celebrated its 25th year of being the best bagpipe band in the Quad-City area.

Most of Julie LeFevre’s seventh-grade agriculture students have had a taste of agriculture education when they get to her classroom. She sees her job as giving students a bigger bite to keep them at the table.

Dixon City firefighters work to extinguish hot spots in the afternoon on Monday, March 2, 2026, after previously fighting a fire in the 1100 block of West First Street.

House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson is optimistic farm bill legislation will get to the full House floor this year, with committee markup beginning March 3.