The Kable Concert Band began their 129th season of summer concerts the past Wednesday night. Concerts are held on "the campus" in downtown Mt. Morris each week. People bring lawn chairs, and there are bench seats available. Local charitable groups take turns and provide pie and ice cream for a free will donation. All ages are present.

In this session of the Illinois General Assembly, Farm Bureau has been working diligently to gain bipartisan support for a legislative solution to reforming the estate tax in Illinois. But there is another shoe to drop and that is how the federal government taxes estates. Let’s look at the fed side of the equation courtesy of the American Farm Bureau.