With a theme of “Dig Deeper and Read!” the Aurora Public Library (APL) Summer Reading Adventure this year reminds us to remain resilient in the face of adversity and of the importance of lifelong growth, learning, and self-discovery. Because 2020 continues to prove a challenge for us collectively and individually,
Grandpa,I met my daughter’s father-in-law at the wedding. I was not impressed by the man and made no overtures to develop a friendship. Apparently, neither did he. From my daughter, over the years, I have grown to dislike the man based on what she told me. Well, when my daughter
By Bobby Narang The Northern Illinois University (NIU) football team took a pair of losses before the season even reached August. The Huskies suffered a heavy financial loss and had two of their non-conference games dropped last week when the Big Ten Conference announced it was limiting all Fall sports
By Woodrow Carroll If we are fortunate an abbreviated version of the 2020 Major League Baseball season will get under way Friday, July 24. Let no civil unrest nor a nasty virus stand in the way of the Boys of Summer. Both of Chicago’s Major League Baseball teams will open
The Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference (ISCC) recently named the Dick Durrant Academic Athlete of the Year award winners for 2019-2020. Waubonsee Community College earned four of the five co-winners of this prestigious award, given annually to the male and female student-athletes in the ISCC who attain the highest grade point
Quandary! That word sums up the near future in sports, from middle school through all of the professional ranks. Tentative might be another good word. Where do we go from here, a function of the COVID-19 situation in which professional teams start the trek to play in a season with
Aurora Central Catholic is the site of a baseball game July 8 of Illinois Indians (blue shirts) vs. Dirt Bags (white uniforms), both travel teams.
Working toward the Girl Scout Bronze award, eight Girl Scouts from Louise White School Girl Scout Troop 1675 opened a Little Free Pantry July 7. The Pantry at the Unity of Fox Valley Church, 230 Webster Street, in Batavia, has non-perishable foods and toiletries. The pantry is part of the
A box turtle from Aurora’s Phillips Park zoo watches a visitor to Aurora’s Farmer’s Market Saturday.
Senior Services Associates Aurora activities coordinators, Paul Heinkel and Sean Kelly, have a new partner in Jennifer Huber who joins them as the new activities coordinator at the Yorkville Beecher Center. Huber works at the Beecher Center, 908 Game Farm Road, Yorkville, and will collaborate with Heinkel and Kelly in
By Amy Roth Jim Peterik of Ides of March and Survivor bands’ fame was in Aurora July 7 to shoot a music video of a new song that was “inspired by nostalgia,” he said. “Carry Me Back” was co-written by Ides of March member Larry Millas and is performed by
Applications for vote-by-mail ballots for the November 3 general election are available. Kane County Clerk John A. Cunningham recently announced applications can be obtained in two ways, online and by paper copy. In a July 2020 letter to Kane County voters, he said the first method is to complete an
By John W. Whitehead What exactly is going on? Is this revolution? Is this anarchy? Is this a spectacle engineered to distract us from the machinations of the police state? Is this a sociological means of re-setting our national equilibrium? Is this a Machiavellian scheme designed to further polarize the
July 16 U.S. president George W. Bush announces his plan for strengthening homeland security in the wake of the shocking September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.. Bush launches a massive overhaul of the Nation’s security, intelligence, and emergency-response systems through the creation of the
The Village of Oswego’s retro drive-in movie experience of Toy Story 4, scheduled for this Thursday, July 16, has sold out. Interested residents may still join the waitlist to be notified the day of the event if space becomes available. To join the waitlist, send to jhoffman@oswegoil.org. Look for another
Health care workers wave flags at Rush-Copley Hospital.
Five-year-old twins, Cole and Giavanna, wave in anticipation of the Independence Day vehicle parade on the south side of Yorkville, one of three community vehicle parades on the day. Fireworks filled the skies in the evening.
Colorful skies provide entertainment, at a distance, in Oswego’s Prairie Point fireworks display in the evening on Independence Day.
A hot weather streak will bring air temperatures in the 80s and 90s for at least the next two weeks, with some days reaching triple digits the heat index. The city government of Aurora is advising residents to take necessary precautions to stay safe and has opened a centrally-located cooling
By Jerry Nowicki Days after the governor donated $51.5 Million of his personal fortune to a committee supporting a graduated income tax constitutional amendment, a new coalition has begun an effort to defeat the measure. At stake is governor JB Pritzker’s signature policy proposal, a constitutional amendment scrapping the state’s
