Leland Tower shines bright
Leland Tower lights shine brightly for the holidays, right, especially following workers who replaced several dozen light strands that had burned out.
COVID-19 vaccines at Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora
At Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, intensive care nurse, Marsha Helland, right, prepares to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Year in review reveals a variety of important photos
Presence Fox Knoll/Ascension Living retirement community, 421 N. Lake Street in Aurora, celebrate staff members with a Heroes Work Here sign on the front lawn.
Insects tame on the trip
Editor’s note: Rick McKay, Joe Masonick, and Jack Karolewski, have been travel companions for more than 50 years to a variety of sites with many goals. This week’s adventure is the 21st in the series, a 14-day hike in 2005 across northern Spain’s intriguing Camino de Santiago, known as the...
A surprise for Aurora’s Chuck Nelson
Chuck Nelson, right, Aurora Deputy mayor, poses for the camera with his wife, Karen, and Richard Irvin, left, mayor of Aurora, Thursday, Dec. 17 following a surprise naming of the Chuck B. Nelson Development Services Center on Broadway in Aurora.
Relief reached by Congress, finally!
By Sarah Mansur The U.S. Congress reached an agreement Monday evening on a roughly $900 Billion COVID-19 relief package that both extends unemployment benefits, provides stimulus checks to Americans within a certain income bracket and funds to small businesses, but it fell short of providing direct funding to State and...
A new year on the horizon: A promise to do, be, better
We find ourselves preparing to close out the year. Most of us, in a triggered and conditioned response, might offer a sigh and make a comment such as a new year is most welcome and surely would not be any worse than this year. Testimony about COVID-19 would be example...
Aurora City Council: 134 apply for Civilian Review Board (CRB); plea to reopen
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, the City Council listened to an update on the Civilian Review Board (CRB). Aurora Communications director Clayton Muhammad said there were 134 applicants for the Civillian Review Board which finished accepting applications...
Jesus existed: Case cited
December 18, 2021Dear editor; I often enjoy Charles Coddington’s writings, but I just had to answer his fantasies about the origins of Christianity in The Voice December 3 (https://thevoice.us/historical-context-explicated-of-evangelical-christians) and 17 (https://thevoice.us/birth-death-miracle-of-jesus-some-facts-examined). There is no evidence that Saul of Tarsus was a Zealot. I believe Chas wrote the articles to...
North Aurora Board votes against amendment
By Jason Crane The North Aurora Village Board, through the Zoom video conference platform, voted against a third amendment to the annexation agreement for the Moose Lake Estates subdivision at the Board meeting Monday. The Board has spent many hours receiving input from dozens of residents since the October 19,...
In defense of recent comments
December 18, 2020Dear editor; In response to Frank Patterson’s letter in the December 17 issue of The Voice (thevoice.us/objection-to-recent-readers-commentary): Mr. Patterson thinks it is “hooey” the Democratic Party has become the home of Big tech billionaires, globalists, socialists, Marxists, BLM, antifa, and main stream media. Perhaps he needs to do...
Future thought: Decoding person’s brain without consent
Last of two parts The previous article is at thevoice.us/mapping-brain-thoughts-on-technological-horizon Dr. Joseph Mercola wrote in the Children’s Defense Fun on brain mapping: “At the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2016 meeting, panelists suggest that different ways of scanning the brain and brain mapping could be incorporated into the legal system and...
Oswego Little White School Museum Christmas cheer online
Although Oswego’s Little White School Museum is closed to the public due to the on-going pandemic, that’s not stopping them from spreading a little Christmas cheer during this holiday season. Each year, the Museum has been host to its popular “Toys from the Attic” special seasonal exhibit featuring vintage toys...
Reuland delivers ‘Feed the Frontline’
Reuland Food Service in Aurora has been delivering 1,000 hot meals to health care workers the last few weeks after relaunching its highly successful “Feeding the Frontline” initiative. Reuland Food Service, 115 Oak Avenue in Aurora, delivers oven-roasted chicken, garlic potatoes and a vegetable medley, or a vegetable lasagna, to...
Kane County senior property tax can be deferred
Kane County Treasurer, David J. Rickert, reminds taxpayers that information and forms for the Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral program are available in the Treasurer’s office, 719 Batavia Avenue, Geneva. The program allows qualified senior citizens to defer all or part of their 2020 property taxes up to $5,000 on...
White House scene of ample Christmas celebrations
The tradition of a White House Christmas tree in Washington, D.C. was started by Benjamin Harrison in 1889. Theodore Roosevelt banned Christmas trees from the house because he believed that chopping down healthy evergreens for the holiday was at adds with his commitment to conservation. Of course, that didn’t stop...
Thank you for signing
By Judy SiedleckiOswego Dear Oswego signers of my petition to run for Oswego Village trustee. Whether I spoke with you personally, or you signed because an advocate asked you, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your many signatures will allow me to be on the ballot for...
Christmas in March: A part of Home Alone movie set
Because this is my close-to-Christmas column, each year I endeavor to squeeze out something Christmas-related. Someone online told of a most memorable Christmas. I couldn’t think of any, except for those where girl friends dumped me. Other than those holiday dumpster specials, I’d have to say my most memorable Christmas...
Pam Colwell promotes Christmas Eve Jingle at 6 p.m..
“People should spread the word and get out there and ring those bells. It’ll be awesome.” That’s how Pam Colwell of Aurora promotes the Worldwide Christmas Eve Jingle 2020, a global movement to have community residents go outside at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve and ring bells for two minutes. The...
Thoughts on Aurora’s new Bookmobile debut in 2022
When I was growing up, I attended a K-8 grade school in a rather well-served neighborhood in a suburb near Chicago. Our library did not have a bookmobile. In my eight years of grammar school, our principle arranged for a Chicago Public Library Book Bus to drop by. It happened...