All month there will be giveaways at the Aurora Public Library West Branch, 233 S. Constitution Drive, just south of Washington Middle School. Those who stop in can receive a pen, bookmark and edible goodies! Week two is Throwback Week at the West Branch. Those who correctly answer questions in
Batavia High School remains a power in boys high school track and field again this season. The assessment comes following success last season. Head boys track and field coach Dennis Piron, who keeps busy as both head football coach and assistant athletic director, said, “I am very excited about the
Oswego East High School’s Garrett Fiduccia, right, dives safely back to first base under a tag by visiting West Aurora’s Oliver Wilson at Oswego East Thursday, March 29 in a non-conference baseball game. West Aurora won, 4-1. West Aurora will play host to Batavia at 10 a.m. Saturday and will
The Chicago White Sox, trailing 4-0 after the first inning, stormed back for a 14-7 victory over the host Kansas City Royals in the season opener Thursday, March 28. It was a barrage of six home runs by the Sox that did the trick. Three home runs by the Sox
Aurora University’s Hanna Tomasko delivers a pitch to a Wisconsin Lutheran College batter Monday in game two of a doubleheader in Aurora. Aurora University won the nightcap, 6-5, after dropping the opener, 3-2, in a Northern Athletics Conference softball game. Al Benson/The Voice
By Bobby Narang – The Northern Illinois University football team is aiming high again. The Huskies started Spring practice March 27 and will conclude with the annual Huskie Bowl April 28. As one of the last Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs to start Spring football practice, the Huskies are seeking
Members of Boys II Men hold candles in a tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a memorial Sunday at Aurora City Hall nearly 50 years after his death. See pages 1 and 2. See facebook.com/thevoice.us
Congressman Bill Foster, left, gives remarks Monday at a gun violence prevention presentation at Community Christian Church in Naperville. Foster was host. Panelists, from left, Dr. Karen Sheehan, Illinois Violent Death Reporting System; Marsha Lee, Moms Demand Action, her son was killed at age 20; Rohan Chakrabarty, a senior at
A 71-year-old man reports he’s been taking numerous drugs for years, including statins to lower cholesterol. He’s so weak he can hardly get around and has, “no power for anything,” he has said. He had a heart attack years ago and had a stent installed. His doctors want him to
An extraordinary video which traces the history of St. Charles, was just released by the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley. The video, which took 10 months to produce, is divided into five sections: A Country Town (1833-1880), Building A City (1880-1950), The Gates-Baker-Norris Era (1926-1980), Education (1835-2003) and
During Spring break 2018 children residing at the Aurora Housing Authority Eastwood Apartment Complex participated in the Spring Break Blast Week. The five-day camp, sponsored by alderwoman Scheketa Hart-Burns, provided fun activities and crafts for first through sixth graders. At Risk Mentoring is a not-for-profit organization with a focus to
Aurora resident Andi Danis shows a new logo Monday for Mutual Ground domestic and sexual violence shelter in Aurora. Danis, Mutual Ground board president, was the keynote speaker at the bimonthly Aurora Noon Lions Club meeting at Luigi’s Pizza in Aurora. Al Benson/The Voice
The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton will welcome Neal F. Thompson Tuesday, April 17. He will discuss “Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991.” The free presentation inside the Cantigny Visitors Center, will begin at 7:30 p.m., but doors will open at 6:30 p.m.. Parking will
Enough is enough. That was the refrain chanted over and over by the thousands of demonstrators who gathered to protest gun violence in America. March 24, 2018, more than 200,000 young people took the time to march on Washington, D.C. and other cities across the country to demand that their
Aurora’s Paramount Theatre, Chicago’s most decorated theater at the 2017 Jeff Awards with the third largest subscriber base in the Nation, will present the first Chicago-area regional staging of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical “Once” to close its 2017-2018 Broadway Series. “Once” will run April 25 through June 3: Wednesdays
Penning my previous entry for The Voice in the April 5 issue about working on a television assembly line got me into a 367-jobs-I-once-had mode and the fun I endured performing them. Driving a forklift for Budweiser was one job. Working for a beer company would be a dream come
By Steven L. Aldrich – I joined approximately 100 to 150 residents Saturday to support the national “March For Our Lives” movement at Oswego High School. It was an overcast, blustery, and cold day, but the spirits, grassroots activism, energy levels, were exuberant. The rally was organized and led by
Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman, left, presents a plaque to Officer Steven Pacenti as the Aurora Police Department 2017 Employee of the Year at the ceremony Wednesday, March 21 at the Aurora Police Department. See facebook.com/thevoice.us. Jason Crane/The Voice
