The Illinois chapter of the U.S. Bowling Congress (USBC) announced it will hold its 123rd Annual Open Tournament at Parkside Lanes in Aurora. “We’re thrilled to bring this tournament to one of the premier bowling centers in Illinois,” said Betty McCann, president of the Illinois USBC. “The Illinois USBC is
Members of the Neuqua Valley High School boys basketball team pose Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019 after capturing the East Aurora Holiday Basketball tournament with a 58-52 victory over Wheaton Academy in the championship game.
By Woodrow CarrollTucson, Ariz. The 2019 University of Illinois football season was difficult to understand. On the upside, among the 14 teams in the Big Ten Conference, Illinois and Rutgers each was predicted as the least likely to make it to a bowl game in media preseason forecasts. In a
The high school Christmas holiday basketball tournaments have passed into history and various teams are in the shakeout process. Savoring success gives way to conference confrontations. In boys tournaments, Waubonsie Valley captured the Jacobs championship and DeKalb won its venerable and historic DeKalb tournament championship. Waubonsie Valley’s closest score in
By Bobby Narang Geneva High School girls basketball team shared a similarity with Saturday’s opponent that few teams in the State can lay claim to, a fellow State champion. Just four days into the new decade, the Vikings, a two-time State champion in Class 4A in both 2017 and 2018,
Aurora University’s Sydni Olson, 33, seeks to grab the rebound Saturday from visiting Alverno College opponents, Angie Reutgen, 22, and Dom Hudson during Aurora’s 69-62 victory.
Interested persons can sign up for its next Oswego Police Department Citizen’s Police Academy, which will begin Wednesday, Feb. 5. Classes will be held Wednesday nights from 6:30 p.m. until approximately 8:30 p.m. and will run for 13 weeks in the community room at the Oswego Police Headquarters. Class size
The Oswego Fire Protection District will purchase clothes for their mascot “Pumper the Fire Pup” whose purpose is to educate the public in relation to community fire protection and prevention, thanks to a grant from Illinois American Water. The Illinois American Water Firefighter Grant Program provides financial assistance to fire
By John Montesano As we welcome in another new year and a new decade, many of us welcome a new set of resolutions. I am not much of a resolution-maker, but there is something that I have wished for every year: Peace on earth. Unfortunately, in my lifetime, there have
The Aurora Navy League Council 247 will hold its monthly dinner meeting Tuesday, Jan. 21. The meeting will be held at Grandma’s Table Restaurant, 1700 Douglas Road, Montgomery, just north of U.S. Route 30. A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m. followed by dinner at 5:45 p.m.. The dinner includes
Betty Butler of St. Charles receives a salute in Betty Butler Day, December 10, 2019.
Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois (GSNI) officially launched the 2020 Girl Scout Cookie season January 8, when Girl Scouts across northern Illinois become entrepreneurs when they earn money to power their own leadership opportunities and adventures! This season, GSNI has two sweet new ways to celebrate young female leaders: A
Acclaimed Aurora pianist Huntley Brown, a native of Jamaica, addresses the congregation in Aurora.
Gary Swick, president of Friends of the Fox River, will present his annual State of the Fox River program from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 12, at Schweitzer Environmental Center, 16N900 Sleepy Hollow Road in West Dundee. Every year at this time, the president reports on the health
The next quarterly recycling event for Montgomery residents will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Public Works facility, 891 Knell Road in Montgomery. During the event, Montgomery residents who participate in the Village’s trash contract with DC Recycling can drop off electronics, including TV’s
The Vintage Aurora Calendar for 2020, produced by the Aurora Historical Society, is a look back at 12 of the ethnic and cultural groups that helped to build the city following the arrival of the first white settlers in 1834. Executive director, John Jaros, selected the photos for the insight
By John W. Whitehead Twenty years into the 21st Century, and what do we have to show for it? Government corruption, tyranny, and abuse, have propelled us at warp speed towards a full-blown police state in which egregious surveillance, roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, censorship, retaliatory arrests,
January 9 Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone, a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera, and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features, at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. It went on sale in the United States six months later amidst huge hype. Thousands of customers lined up
Last of three parts The second part is available at thevoice.us/more-than-8000-pieces-of-music-collected-from-holocaust More than 11 Million individuals, six Million of them Jews, died in the Holocaust, (1933-1945). The music they wrote as a temporary escape, however, did not die, thanks in part to the efforts of an Italian composer and pianist,
