Two connected Polo businesses — Gateway Big Box Resale and Kim's Gateway Antiques — celebrated their one-year anniversary on April 28, 2023, with a ribbon-cutting. Left to right are Mark Scholl; Polo City Clerk Sydney Bartelt; First State Bank Branch Manager Pam White; Polo Mayor Doug Knapp; Polo Chamber of Commerce Vice President Tamela Merdian; co-owners Jodi Horner and Shannan Haenitsch; store employee Sheala Wells; Chamber member Namiko Sheely; and Chamber Secretary Megan White. (Alexa Zoellner/Shaw Media)
Alexa Zoellner
Alexa Zoellner reports on Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties for Shaw Media out of the Dixon office. Previously, she worked for the Record-Eagle in Traverse City, Michigan, and the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.