14th anniversary of the 2020 Festival of Lights in Aurora
An electric Santa waves to cars at the intersection of Montgomery Road and Hill Avenue in Aurora recently.
Naperville ballot order drawn; other items in review
Election season continues. Communities, including Aurora, Montgomery, and Naperville, this week are determining ballot order for the February 23 Primary Election and the April 6 Consolidated Election. Naperville, led by city manager Doug A. Krieger, and Pam Gallahue, City clerk, through a lottery drew names for ballot positions. There is...
Kane County Circuit Clerk takes oath of office
Judge Rene Cruz, left, 16th Judicial Circuit Court, holds a swearing-in ceremony of Theresa Barreiro of Aurora as Kane County Circuit Clerk Monday at the Kane County Judicial Circuit.
Illinois COVID-19 rate 10.4%
By Jerry Nowicki Another 125 individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 were reported to have died in the previous 24 hours Tuesday, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, to bring the death toll to 12,403 since the pandemic began. That came as the State reported another 12,542 new...
Santa and children at Yorkville drive-through
The recent drive-through in Yorkville affords children to stay in cars and both see and be greeted by Santa.
Travels in Spain: City and bucolic
Editor’s note: Rick McKay, Joe Masonick, and Jack Karolewski, have been travel companions for more than 50 years to a variety of site with many goals. This week’s adventure is the 18th in the series, a 14-day hike in 2005 across northern Spain’s intriguing Camino de Santiago, known as the...
Vaccine comparisons of three players
Here is a correction to this Reader’s Voice The Moderna final phase study came up with 196 cases (not the 19 listed incorrectly) of COVID-19. One individual among the 30 severe cases did die, which was listed. Mary Goetsch wrote in the addendum that she calculated the incidence rate of...
Clothes, food, in drive-through December 10
The Woman’s Club of Aurora will hold a drive-through from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Dec. 10 to drop off staple food products of dry, canned, and boxed, food items for delivery to Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry. The drop off will be in the east parking lot of Westminster Presbyterian...
Library most common cultural activity, in bits and pieces
Welcome to the Christmas season: Full of jolly and gentle times. Here are the short bits and pieces of information to sparkle your day. Bits: Do you know which is the most common cultural activity in the USA? According to a Gallup poll, it is going to the library,…by a...
Applications open for Aurora Civilian Review Board (CRB)
With a unanimous 12-0 decision, the Aurora City Council made history last week with an unprecedented vote to create the Aurora area’s first Civilian Review Board (CRB), a resident-based body to address police misconduct complaints. “We have made significant advances in our police reform efforts in a short amount of...
Plant-based food, not ‘Frankenmeat’
By Charles CoddingtonAurora In the November 19 issue of The Voice, Jon Hochschartner pushed the idea of cultured meat created in a laboratory in order to remove animals, and the zoonotic diseases, such as COVID-19, they carry, from the equation of food sourcing (thevoice.us/federal-funds-would-help-cultured-meats). He called for Federal funding for...
Oswego Christmas Walk Week keeps spirits bright
Holiday care-avans to neighborhoods, a virtual tree-lighting ceremony, and a drive-through holiday celebration will bring the cheer to Oswego this year! The Village’s annual holiday event is 2020 Christmas Walk Week: Keeping Spirits Bright. The Village of Oswego, Oswego Downtown Association, and presenting sponsor, Allied First Bank, will keep spirits...
Historical context explicated of evangelical Christians
There’s a civil war in process in these United States, and religious belief is at the heart of it. Specifically, the evangelical Christian community is split into two factions, and both have been sniping at each other for the past four years. One faction follows the teachings of Jesus Christ,...
Recipe of the Week: Cream Cheese Squares
Ingredients2 (8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent roll dough2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese3/4 cup white sugar1 teaspoon vanilla extract1/2 cup butter, melted1/4 cup white sugar1 teaspoon ground cinnamon Directions1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 9×13 inch pan. 2. Press one can of the crescent rolls into the bottom...
The Document Behind Our Worth
For more than two hundred and thirty yearsOur Constitution has performed quite well,Through all our triumphs, heartaches, blood and tears,It has been front and center through every spell. In truth, it does not subjugate at all;But that is where a basic danger lies.It succinctly makes Liberty its call.Which we, the...
Award-winning journalist, Libby Copeland, Zoom interview
The Aurora Public Library District (APLD) will be host to award-winning journalist, Libby Copeland, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8. Adult services librarian, Cailín Cullen, will chat with Copeland about her acclaimed new book, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are. The event will be held...
Mobile COVID-19 Testing in Elgin and Hampshire Next Week
The Kane County Health Department (KCHD) announced Tuesday, Dec. 1 that a mobile testing unit managed by the Illinois Department of Public Health will be in Kane County next week to provide Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests to the community. The dates are: • Monday, Dec. 7 at Elgin Sports Complex,...
Ask Grandpa: Best advice: Be honest, direct, deferential
Grandpa says: Confidential to “Inmate’s Brother”; the woman about whom you wrote does not exist in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Either you gave me some misinformation or you blatantly lied. Your letter sounded phony when I read it. It sounds more like you are trashing a woman with whom...
Youthful Northern Illinois: ‘Guys play hard, fearless’
By Bobby Narang The Northern Illinois University football team is right on track. Unfortunately, for Huskie Nation, the final destination for the historic 2020 season is the basement of the Mid-American Conference West Division. The Huskies, in the second year under the direction of former star Northern Illinois running Thomas...
COVID-19 cancellations catch up with Illinois, Northwestern
By Woodrow Carroll It was bound to happen with COVID-19 laying waste to the sports scene. But, it was still painful when it did happen! Early there was a sense of optimism that Illinois, Northwestern, and Northern Illinois would play all of their scheduled top-level Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football...