Month: March 2019

Both Buschs settle for third places

By John Schutt –  NASCAR Monster Energy series, Pennzoil 400, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Nev., Sunday, March 3. Kyle Busch was trying for a trifecta this weekend at his home track in Las Vegas, Nev.. Kyle won the Friday night NASCAR Gander Outdoor Truck race and Saturday’s Xfinity...

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Woodrow Carroll

Conference tournaments offer brutal paths

Although Division I college men’s basketball season has another week of regular-season games in both the Big Ten Conference and Mid-American Conference, the Missouri Valley Conference was set to start Conference tournament play Thursday, March 7 in St. Louis. It’s a brutally compact tournament which run four consecutive days and...

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Aurora University guard Demetrius Pointer, right, shoots against an Augustana College defender Friday at Augustana in Rock Island in the first round of the NCAA Division III national tournament. Augustana won, 93-67. Al Benson/The Voice

Top-rated Augustana ends Aurora University’s season, 93-67, in the NCAA Division III national tournament

Aurora University guard Demetrius Pointer, right, shoots against an Augustana College defender Friday at Augustana in Rock Island in the first round of the NCAA Division III national tournament. Augustana won, 93-67. Al Benson/The Voice...

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Carter Crane editor of The Voice

Wheaton, Augustana, in D-III Sweet 16; West Aurora falls

Fun and excitement prevail. March Madness is both college and high school: Six college teams started Friday from Illinois in the 64-team Division III college men’s tournament. Aurora University, North Central College, and Wheaton College were among the six and 64. Add Lake Forest, Eureka, and Illinois Wesleyan. Friday there...

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High school boys basketball selected schedules, results

Schedule Friday, March 8 IHSA State Class 1A and Class 2A tournaments Semifinals IHSA State Class 3A and Class 4A tournaments Sectionals Saturday, March 9 IHSA State Class 1A and Class 2A tournaments Championship and third place Tuesday, March 12 IHSA State Class 3A and Class 4A tournaments Super-sectionals Friday,...

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Larry Frieders

Health solutions not always 100% safe; fear counterproductive

I once published a newsletter about the many uses of common hydrogen peroxide and some individuals began telling me about the possible dangers from using this long-available product. The mere chance of a problem seems to have triggered some of my readers to issue dire warnings, even suggesting I retract...

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Let's Go Green

Let’s Go Green!

• Sustainable Saturday Recycling Event in Lisle: The event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 23 in the Benedictine University Rice Parking Lot at 5700 College Road. Participants must enter off Maple Avenue, west of Benedictine University and follow the route through the campus to the drop-off...

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Fundraiser forum

Spaghetti dinner at Good Shepherd Church of the Good Shepherd, 5 W. Washington Street in Oswego, will hold a spaghetti-dinner fundraiser from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 9. The public is invited. Members of United Methodist men will serve spaghetti with homemade sauce, salad, garlic bread, dessert, and...

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A Focus on History – March 7 through March 13

March 7 Twenty-nine-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention, the telephone. – 1876. More than 3,000 unemployed auto workers, led by the Communist Party of America, brave the cold in Dearborn, Mich. to demand jobs and relief from Henry Ford. The marchers got too close...

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John Whitehead

Big Brother, corporate partners, watching our every move, always

Uncle Sam wants you. Correction: Big Brother wants you. To be technically accurate, Big Brother, aided and abetted by his corporate partners in crime, wants your data. That’s what we have been reduced to in the eyes of the government and corporate America: Data bits and economic units to be...

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League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters Central Kane County will provide three Aurora aldermanic forums in March along with forums in Geneva and St. Charles

  Forums in Aurora: • Ward 1 and at-large candidates, Tuesday, Mar. 5 at 7:30 p.m.. (Note time change to 7:30 p.m. due to 6 p.m. State of the City event) • Wards 5 and 6 candidates, Wednesday, Mar. 13 at 7 p.m.. • Ward 8 candidates, Monday, Mar. 18...

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Oswego Regional Class 4A Basketball between West Aurora and Plainfield Central 3-1-19

March Madness basketball provides thrills, championships, close calls

March Madness makes visits around the country in basketball each year. The college pairings announcements Sunday, March 17 for the 68-team NCAA Division I tournament, which will begin two days later and end in early April, is the visibly-diagnosed cases of March Madness each year. There are many other observations,...

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