The League of Women Voters of Naperville cosponsored a candidates forum, along with the Aurora Area chapter of LWV, at the Naperville Municipal Center Tuesday. Republican Party candidates Krishna K. Bansal and Rick Laib
Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin, shows the gifts he received from representatives of Waubonsee Community College at his media briefing Tuesday, at the Aurora City Hall.
The Aurora Police and Fire Departments observed a moment of silence over the radio Saturday, Feb. 15 to mark one year since the mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Company where five workers were killed and five Aurora Police officers were injured. At 1:24 p.m. Saturday, exactly one year since...
Healing to Healthy received a $2,000 grant from The Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley under the Fall 2019 grant cycle. The grant will allow the organization to purchase sewing machines to advance Healing to Healthy’s mission of creating comfort clothing for mastectomy patients. Founded by two breast cancer...
The Aurora Police Department has taken multiple individuals into custody after a shooting on the city’s near East Side that left a 16-year-old suffering from life-threatening injuries Tuesday afternoon. Just after 4:15 p.m., Aurora Police officers responded to the 600 block of Second Avenue for reports of a person shot....
The remembrances Saturday of the shootings in Aurora February 15, 2019, at the Henry Pratt factory, were efficient, straight forward, and functional. Some family members and friends of the deceased attended in a situation which never is easy. It will haunt for many years. There was a ceremony at the...
February 15, 2020Dear editor; I write to comment on the letter in The Voice, January 23, at thevoice.us/remarks-follow-resignation-from-lwv. From their letter: “The League (of Women Voters) was begun as a nonpartisan political and membership organization, and it remains so today.” The letter was signed by five officers of various chapters...
February 14, 2020Dear editor; Charles Darwin wrote that “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” No one knows the truth of this better than someone struggling with a serious illness, for whom every hour of life is hard-won. But all...
Last of two parts The first part is available at thevoice.us/coronavirus-fear-compounds-anxiety-arbitrarily. Coronavirus: How dangerous is it? Hint: Don’t trust the big media. Want to Know Info by Fred Burks for PEERS (Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service) and former White House interpreter and whistleblower has submitted the following article: “Fear-filled...
An interesting book entitled “The Axemaker’s Gift” was written by James Burke and Robert Ornstein and released 25 years ago. Their premise is that axemakers, their discoveries and innovations, significantly improved and changed lives. In the ancient past, we all came out of Africa and began to inhabit the planet....
The Aurora and Fox Valley community are invited to Aurora Central Catholic High School, 1255 N. Edgelawn Drive, corner Edgelawn Drive and Indian Trail, Aurora, 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 14, for the 70th Kiwanis Pancake Day. The Kiwanis Club of Aurora, in its 104th year, presents this annual...
Sugarland, the electrifying country power duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, will return to the road in the Summer and Aurora’s Thomas J. Weisner RiverEdge Park will be the only Chicago-area stop for the band’s There Goes the Neighborhood Tour 2020, at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 2. Don’t miss...
Aurora • Saturday Feb. 22 • 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. Rosary High School 19th annual Candlelight Ball Alumnae, families, and friends can enjoy an evening of celebration while assisting Rosary in raising funds for Rosary High School. Highlights of the evening will include raffle prizes, fine dining experience, casino...
I hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day and received many heartfelt good wishes, tokens of love, and similar garbage. Continuing my tradition of being a day late and a dollar short, I’d like to share some words about that special day. Some time back, I wondered why a heart...
The Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 may be 100 years old, but it is reinventing how it does business. Long ago, Post 84 sold its traditional Post building that had a bar and a hall, and those days are not coming back because the new office will boast a coffee...
The Batavia Depot Museum will open for the season March 2 with a new exhibit, Community, Culture, and Conversations; African American Heritage in Batavia. Attendees can learn why early African Americans decided to call Batavia home, and what their lives were like here after the Civil War. An opening reception...
Ingredients 1/4 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 3/4 cup butter 3 cups white sugar 3 eggs 6 very ripe bananas, mashed 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking soda 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1...
However short or long your lifetime is right now There have been some events of which you’ve made a vow You do not want, in any sense, to see again,, At any time, no matter what, or where, or when. The strange part is, each of them will but fade...
By Marjorie Logman As a Christian I have been looking at Christianity in America. I see a vase representing Christianity that has fallen and shattered into pieces. Unfortunately, many of the pieces have decided they are the whole vase and it has brought division. The White Evangelical Movement piece that...
Jim Nowlan and I go back a long way, and I can’t think of anyone I know I respect more. That being said, I have a much less dystopian view of the future of newspapers, and particularly community journalism, than the one Jim shared in his piece, two weeks ago...
