• Kankakee County Board member Nickey Yates announced that he was resigning, effective Nov. 30

• Candace Sykes trotted to the scorer’s table, ready to check into her first collegiate basketball game, ready to feel something besides pain. It was an exciting, nerve-wracking, bittersweet moment for the University of Alabama guard who starred for the Momence High School girls’ basketball team for four spectacular seasons.

• Out and About takes us to the stands of a football game, the Youth for Christ banquet, the ceremony honoring the Illinois National Guard, the Miss Kankakee program, Zonta Wine Tasting and a business after hours event in Watseka.