Hot August Nights, a Neil Diamond tribute act, headlines the festival of the same name Friday.
Saturday's Ya Maka My Weekend festival will culminate with a performance by Adventures in Parrotdise, a Jimmy Buffett tribute.
Al Hull, a Galesburg, Ill.-based Elvis impersonator, will perform Friday night in The District.
(Photos by Melissa Coulter/Rock Island News) Kirk Humphreys, a math teacher at Washington Junior High, won the Citizen of the Year award in the Educator category.
Mary Welling won in the Individual category
Hannah Mattison is the youth winner for Rock Island Citizen of the Year.
(Contributed photo) YouthBuild Quad-Cities participants climbed the Alpine Tower at Camp Abe Lincoln at the end of their week of Mental Toughness training.
(Photos by Talya C. Arbisser/Rock Island News) Ametra Carrol thanks God and the team of people who brought Douglas Park Place from idea to reality at an open house at the new residence center Wednesday. Brian Hollenback, Rock Island Economic Growth Corp. executive director, looks on.
The new Douglas Park Place, as seen from the corner of 9th Street and 7th Avenue. The new housing development was built to serve women and their children, who are in the early recovery stages from alcohol and drug addiction. The development includes six 3-bedroom units and two 2-bedroom units.
Officer Buzz Robinson of the Rock Island Police Department takes a look off the balcony of a 2-bedroom unit that is part of the new Douglas Park Place.
Melissa Coulter is the mayor of the virtual community Quadsville.com. She has worked at the Quad-City Times since December 2005, is a member of the newspaper's editorial board and designs pages for the features department. In the autumn of 2008, she spent six weeks working at Der Standard, a daily newspaper in Vienna, Austria, as a U.S.-Austria Journalism Exchange Fellow. She is a graduate of Augustana College and the mother of a precocious redhead.
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