The Sycamore Moose Lodge, 317 W. State St., will host a thrift sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce staff, ambassadors, board members and community members celebrated Old National Bank’s recent merger with First Midwest Bank during a ribbon cutting.

Safe Passage will host its 22nd annual Domestic Violence Vigil to mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.

Erika Nunez, a Kishwaukee College student pursuing her associates degree, recently was awarded the 2022 Renaissance Scholarship through the DeKalb County Community Foundation.

Books of all genres and for all ages will be available to buy, as well as DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, large print, audio books, puzzles and games.

The DeKalb and Sycamore Townships will co-host a drive-thru shred and recycle event from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the Kishwaukee Family YMCA, 2500 Bethany Road, Sycamore. Participants must bring an ID to show residency.

Sherrill Morris and Diane Handlen have known each other since the fifth grade, but despite their almost 43 years of friendship and a distance spanning about 1,120 miles, they’d never met in person until this year.

The new DeKalb Elks Veteran’s Memorial along South Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb will be dedicated during a public ceremony Oct. 1, and the community is invited.

The DeKalb County Community Gardens released a list of October locations for Grow Mobile, a mobile food pantry that offers free food and household items to all who visit, no requirements necessary.