Read more about the article Slices of Life: Dave’s Firearms is a place for camaraderie — and camouflageDarrell Hoemann/The News-Gazette
Dave Costley tries to get Gus to quiet down at Dave's Guns in Mayview on Thursday, June 6, 2013.

Slices of Life: Dave’s Firearms is a place for camaraderie — and camouflage

By Gabrielle Irvin -- The sooty, unpolished wood floor in Dave's Firearms hasn't been refinished in years. Laid with random planks of different widths…

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Read more about the article Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park computer lab celebrates “El Dia Del Nino”Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess.org
Children try to break a piñata as part of a Children's Day party at Bristol Park in Champaign on April 30, 2014.

Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park computer lab celebrates “El Dia Del Nino”

Giovanna Olea works for CU-CitizenAccess.org as a community ambassador in a computer lab at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park. CU-CitizenAccess.org has opened and operated a computer…

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Read more about the article Champaign seeks to expand online services for neighborhoodsDarrell Hoemann
Colleen Madera with the revised city of Champaign Neighborhood Services web site at city hall in Champaign on Thursday, February 5, 2015. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Champaign seeks to expand online services for neighborhoods

The city of Champaign's Neighborhood Services Department says it is close to completion on an upgrade of its website to create an interactive, social forum for community groups.

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Read more about the article Slices of Life: Iraqi woman relates tale of her ‘rebirth’ in AmericaHeather Coit/The News-Gazette
Zina Bhaia shares conversation with Lynn Holley before the two leave for another day on UI campus in Urbana, Ill on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.

Slices of Life: Iraqi woman relates tale of her ‘rebirth’ in America

By Zina Bhaia -- So many lights! I knew that America would be big, but as I looked out my Royal Jordanian Airline window at…

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