The Aurora Fire Department won the inaugural Mayor’s IT’S ON Fitness Challenge Saturday at West Aurora High School. The Mayor’s Team, the Aurora Police Department, and the Aurora Fire Department competed in multiple exercise and endurance tests for bragging rights. Aurora Fire Department photo...
Trish Beckjord, program manager of the Fox River Initiative of the Conservation Foundation, discusses the Art of the Fox project at the Kiwanis Club of Aurora Tuesday at the Prisco Center in Aurora. The Art of the Fox project features paintings by Joel Sheesley, a Professor Emeritus of Art at...
Rev. Jerome L. “Father Jerry” Leake, 76, pastor at St. Joseph Catholic Church, receives honors on his 50th anniversary of ordination Sunday at St. Joseph. Al Benson/The Voice...
By Jason Crane – Aurora Police Officer David Hornburg retired last week after 26 years. Hornburg has been the sergeant-at-arms at Aurora government meetings for approximately a decade. He grew up in the Aurora area and recalled when he was a kid, he would ride his bike downtown and see...
By Anthony Stanford – The Richard and Gina Santori Library of Aurora was host to Pick Your Plot Day May 19. The event was held at the Juvenile Protective Association Children’s Nature Garden, one of the library’s two outdoor gardens on the west side of the building. The gardens offer...
Camron Donatlan of West Aurora High School soars to a Class 3A IHSA State championship in the long jump Saturday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. His jump was 24-01.75. He was fourth in the high jump with 6-6 after winning State the last two years. Kim Groom photo...
Seth Groom propels to a Class 2A State long jump championship for Marmion Academy Saturday. His winning jump was 23-05.00. He won the triple jump in 48-03.5, took second in high jump with 6-9, and was sixth in the 200, 22:30.04. Kim Groom photo...
By Bobby Narang – Seth Groom was almost a one-man team at the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Class 2A State track and field meet last weekend. After placing second in the long jump, triple jump, and high jump at the 2A meet last season, Groom anticipated a big showing...
By Robin Reder – The Dolan and Murphy fastpitch softball team finished with a 2-2 record over Memorial Day weekend in Walcott, Iowa. Dolan defeated Walcott, 5-1, behind pitcher Jose DeLeon, who struck out 14 and gave up four hits. Mick Baker led the offense and was three for three...
White Sox pitcher Dylan Covey, in the team’s 11-1 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles Wednesday, May 23 won for the first time in Major League Baseball. Covey made his major league debut with the Sox last season and in 18 appearances ended up with a 0-7 record. Tack on...
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Jeff Long, as a former sports writer, would have understood the change in writing a column with new information just prior to deadline. We learned late Tuesday of the untimely death of Jeff Long, of the Fox Valley Park District. He was in the Batavia High School Class of 1982....
Sam Conger of Batavia High School, second from right, captures the 110-high hurdles State championship in :14.02 Saturday in Charleston at Eastern Illinois University. He took eighth place in the 300 intermediate hurdles. Batavia finished in a tie for 15th place with Kaneland and Collinsville. Kim Groom photo...
By Craig Lynch – Two long-time high school rivals met in softball Tuesday at the Fremd Sectional semifinal in Palatine. St. Charles North made up for two earlier losses to St. Charles East. The North Stars rallied to defeat the favored Saints, 7-4. “We have tremendous respect for East,” said...
U.S. Navy veteran Herschel Luckinbill of Montgomery, waves to the crowd as the Hero of the Game at the Chicago White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago May 23. He is president of the Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club. Sean King for The Voice...
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