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Melanie Jongsma

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Melanie Jongsma grew up in Lansing, Illinois, and believes The Lansing Journal has an important role to play in building community through trustworthy information.

Journal Journeys: Steve Mares and grandkids help launch another new version

And now the journeys continue. Steve Mares — himself a Published Photographer in The Lansing Journal — recently purchased one of the weather photos ...

Monday: A rainy beginning to a rainy work week

March was a month of inspiration and participation in terms of weather photography, as evidenced by the dozen photos below....

Easter Sunday: Afternoon rain likely

Erica Spencer and Jamie Cleveland both took beautiful cloud photos ...

Saturday: Morning rain, then cloudy

Both Terry Kapteyn and Connie Simon shared flag photos this week ...

Good Friday: A good day for the Prayer Walk

"Check out this face!" wrote Betty Burley when she submitted this robin photo last week....

When the TF North Drama Team came home …

The Lansing Journal was there LANSING, Ill. (March 28, 2024) - I got a call on Sunday morning letting me know that the TF North Drama Team would be arriving at the school with a police escort because the Group Interpretation Team had won the state championship.Most of that sentence...

Thursday: Partly cloudy; warming

Jasmine Gonzalez captured this turtle-shaped cloud, and her mom captured a Walmart sunset (click to view both)...

Wednesday: Cooler, but sunny

Lisi Klein's brother Daryl (Buddy) saw how much fun she was having with weather photography and decided he would try it too. He traveled the bike path to the north side of town for this shot of the Lansing water tower and a beautiful Lansing sky. (Photo: Daryl Klein)

TF North Drama Team wins state championship

On Sunday, March 24, the TF North Competition Drama Team came home with the school's first-ever state championship...

Tuesday: Clouds, wind, rain, and cooler temps

"While I am not a meteorologist," wrote Jennifer Cottrill last Friday morning from the 178th block of Roy Street, "I believe that what I saw on my windshield this morning was graupel."