By Joani Foster – Another must-see performance at the Paramount Theatre, Wizard of Oz, is wowing audiences just as top performances have since 1931 in Aurora. It is not just for children. It is truly for everyone. This production is a burst of happiness. We all could use a little...
The world’s tallest elf is Jason Kullom at the Winter Lights in Aurora Friday to turn on the Christmas lights. Behind Kullom, is Santa peering over the top of the GAR building. See videos of the parade and fireworks at facebook.com/thevoice.us. See more photos by clicking here. Jason Crane/The Voice...
Patterns exist in high school playoffs, however, often there is no explanation. Batavia High School’s football team won 17 games in succession over two years, including a State championship last season. The streak was stopped Saturday when host Nazareth Academy defeated Batavia, 47-28, in LaGrange Park in a Class 7A...
A proposed resolution calling for the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) to support legislation that would provide school boards the option to decide if they would allow for properly trained staff members to be armed in school buildings as part of the districts’ overall student safety and protection plans...
Rotary Club of Aurora volunteers, assisted by Marmion Academy students, take a moment to pose recently while setting up the 2018 Festival of Lights in Phillips Park in Aurora. The display will be visible Friday through December 26. Charlie Zine photo...
Thanksgiving Day should remind us that our glass is half-full and not half-empty. We should express and feel an attitude of gratitude. We should think thanksgiving every day. Problems arise for some of us whose level of expectations are so high that their concept either is they are certain they...
North Aurora resident Sid Pearce describes the 14 hours of noise each day from grading and site preparation north of her home on Ridge Road to the North Aurora Village board Monday. The site of the former Fox Valley Golf Course is set to be a subdivsion of homes. Village...
November 16, 2018 Dear editor; I am proud to join governor-elect J.B. Pritzker’s bipartisan “Serving Illinois’ Heroes” Committee, which will advise the incoming administration on issues of importance to our veterans. The previous administration’s shortcomings on serving veterans led to 14 deaths and countless illnesses at the Quincy Veterans’ home....
November 14, 2018 Dear editor; I have several cameras that I have used in the past, including a 620 Kodak, and single lens reflex cameras, and a Polaroid. Since the advent of digital photography, I do not believe that any of my heirs will be interested in possessing any of...
Second of four parts Molly Hensley-Clancy of BuzzFeed News continues a report on difficulties of voting and remembrances of the Standings Rock Indian Reservations in Fort Yates, N.D.. “Phyllis Young leaves the ‘yellow house,’ which is being used as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s get-out-the-vote headquarters. “Four days before Election...
West Aurora High School will celebrate 150 years of excellence at its Red and Blue Ball at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019 at Pipers Banquets, 1295 Butterfield Road, Aurora. The evening will include dinner, open bar, and dancing at the black tie optional affair. Tickets are $75 each and...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The 35th president of the United States of America. Assassinated in Dallas Texas November 22, 1963, 55 years ago. John Kennedy was born to wealth and privilege, the son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy May 29, 1917. He was given every gift and favored by the gods....
Homosexuality may be a political issue, which Joan Solms avers in The Voice, but it is most certainly not a moral one. Questions of morality involve conscious choices; one decides to become either moral or immoral depending upon his/her understanding of the current code of morality. Codes of morality have...
Ingredients 2 cups frozen peas and carrots 2 cups frozen green beans 1 cup sliced celery 1/2 cup butter 2/3 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon celery seed 1/2 teaspoon onion powder 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1 3/4 cups chicken broth 1 1/3...
Ron Kelso, Board chairman of Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity, shares information Monday, at the Rotary Club of Aurora, at Two Brothers Roundhouse. Founded in 1989, Habitat works in partnership with God and individuals of all faiths and races to develop communities for people in need. They have rehabilitated 62...
John Diederich, chief operating officer of Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, relates with Kiwanis Club of Aurora members Tuesday, at the Prisco Center, his experience at a 2017 concert in Las Vegas when a mass shooting occurred. The gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route...
It’s that time of year again, and the city government of Aurora is making sure there will be enough salt on hand to melt snow and ice from city streets during the Winter this year. “We’ve already applied salt twice this month,” said Tim Forbes, Aurora’s superintendent of streets. “We...
Grandpa says: Happy Thanksgiving to all. I am publishing letters from convicts and ex-convicts who have written to tell of their gratitude for the prison system. Grandpa is not replying to these letters in print. Grandpa is neither endorsing nor condemning these statements. Opinions expressed are those of the writer....
College of DuPage Board of Trustees unanimously voted to appoint Dr. Brian W. Caputo, vice president of administration and CFO at the College, as the new interim president. Dr. Caputo will begin January 1, 2019 to replace outgoing president Dr. Ann Rondeau, who will step down at the end of...
