By Craig Lynch – High school freshman softball pitcher Lauren Derkowski took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and York High School held off scrappy St. Charles North, 5-3, in the Rosemont Class 4A Super-sectional Monday night. “Lauren is a real go-getter,” said York head coach Elizabeth Munn. The Dukes
Major League Baseball started interleague play in 1997. With some modification, the format has remained the same as it was in 1997. There were 214 interleague games played in 1997. The number of scheduled interleague games is now 300. The biggest change was made when the Houston Astros moved from
By John Schutt – NASCAR Monster Energy series, Pocono 400, Pocono Raceway, Pocono, Pa., Sunday, June 3. On a cool day in the Pocono Mountains, Martin Truex, Jr. took his second victory of the season over Kyle Larson. Following in third place was Kyle Busch, in fourth was Kevin Harvick,
The final weekend of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State tournament play will be held Friday and Saturday in boys baseball and girls softball. Spring sports champions have made indelible impressions with their successes. Aurora Christian High School collected its sixth State championship Saturday when the baseball team took
Team members of Plainfield North girls softball celebrate Saturday following a 4-1 victory over Oswego East in the Oswego Class 4A Sectional tournament championship. Plainfield North defeated Sandburg High School, 5-4, in Monday’s Super-sectional at Hinsdale South. Plainfield North will play Palatine at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the State tournament
Team members take a victory lap Saturday, May 26 after capturing the State championship at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Neuqua Valley scored 52 points. Homeood-Flossmoor was second with 48 points and Plainfield North was in third place with 43 points. West Aurora was seventh with 20 points and Glenbard
She wasn’t alone, though, because many of her generation, early to mid-20th Century, bore a deep understanding of what it really meant to be healthy. Sadly, they lived during times when medicine was changing from the old-fashioned holistic approach to the modern beliefs about drugs, surgery, and radiation, thank you,
Kori and Bryan Kasper took space in an empty building in Aurora at the corner of Lake and Benton Streets, across from the Richard and Gina Santori Library of Aurora and made it a bit of paradise. The Kaspers, from Wheaton, opened Branch Gardens, 77 S. Lake Street, to the
Jedda is a female Domestic Short Hair who was born in April 2007. Jedda was rescued as a kitten from a feral colony when she was eight weeks old. She thought she had found her forever home, but her owner passed away. She is a very sweet kitty who loves
• Front Door Household Hazardous Waste Collection Service: Batavia residents can schedule a front door pickup of household hazardous waste by calling U.S. Ecology at 866-373-8357 between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday or by sending an E-mail to curbside@usecology.com. Participation is limited to about 22 households per
Naperville Democrats FUNraiser June 23 The Naperville Township Democrats will be host to an annual Summer FUNdaiser and Pig Roast from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 23, to support the 2018 Election Fund. Democrats of all ages are welcome to bring their families to mix and mingle with
June 7 Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley, Alaska, the highest point on the American continent at 20,320 feet. – 1913. June 8 During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters off of Egypt’s Gaza
There are days I wake up, and I’m not sure what country I live in any more. There are days I wake up and want to go right back to sleep in the hopes that this surreal landscape of government-sanctioned injustice, corruption, and brutality, is just a really bad dream.
Pallbearers carry the casket from the Healy Chapel in Aurora following a prayer service for Walter Backman Monday, Memorial Day, to a hearse. Backman, of the U.S. Navy, died December 7, 1941 in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His remains recently were identified and flown to Illinois for burial
Salutes for the East Aurora NJROTC color guard Memorial Day Monday start the annual Aurora parade. Click on the link for more Memorial Day photos from Aurora, Montgomery, Naperville, Oswego. Click here for a video of the Memorial Day pre-parade ceremony and parade. Jason Crane/The Voice
