Return to football: Oswego High School vs. Plainfield South High School
Oswego High School’s Anthony Cikauskas brings pressure to Plainfield South quarterback Izaiah Huertz, 5, in Friday’s first game of the six-week season.
State House passes bill: Vote-by-mail, curbside voting
By Sarah Mansur The Illinois House passed a bill Thursday, March 18 that would make permanent some vote-by-mail and curbside voting expansions that the state adopted ahead of the 2020 presidential election due to the COVID-19 pandemic. House Bill 1871, sponsored by Democratic Party representative Katie Stuart, of Edwardsville, passed...
Volunteer groups prepare Easter baskets for Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry
Volunteers prepare Easter treats Monday at the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry set for distribution Wednesday this week for families at the Food Pantry.
Pilgrim’s Mass in Santiago: Many nationalities attend
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 30th in the series, a 14-day hike in 2005 across northern Spain’s intriguing Camino de Santiago known as the...
Elections on horizon; four segments varied, essential
We should know the sites of our election polling places. We can expand on the unusually and timely large election turnout in the November 3, 2020 presidential election. Ordinarily community elections do not have a similar draw as the presidential elections. Cities, communities, towns, townships, and districts will hold elections...
On Spring, Oswego Senior Center strength, candidacy
March 15, 2021Dear editor; Spring was my mother’s favorite season. Spring meant new life and hope for brighter days after Winter’s dreary cold and snow. Spring is upon us now after a year of sheltering in our homes, hoping and praying for a way out to share time with family...
Aurora mayoral candidates address their vision
By Jason Crane An Aurora mayoral candidate forum Monday, March 1 through the Zoom video conference platform, allowed viewers to learn more about the three candidates seeking the job as mayor of Aurora for the next four years. An election will be Tuesday, April 6. League of Women Voters Aurora...
Perhaps, soon, a new slogan will develop
March 18, 2021Dear editor; Thanks to news media reports, we all were made aware that COVID-19 virus vaccines, in part, are produced from fetal tissues harvested from abortion mills. In addition, that medical science institutions had their own agenda for abortion to be made legal in 1973. Perhaps, soon, a...
Seven individuals at Aurora City Council against gas station
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, members agreed to postpone a vote on a plan to build a gas station at the northwest corner of Farnsworth Avenue and Molitor Road on the East Side. The resolution has been...
First Native American U.S. Cabinet secretary symbolic
Representative Deb Haaland, D-N.M., was sworn in last week following her Senate confirmation hearing to be interior secretary. Her confirmation makes her the United States’ first Native American U.S. Cabinet secretary. Jim Watson/A.P. Nathan Rott of NPR (National Public Library) submitted the following article online. “Deb Haaland, a member of...
Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA) To-Go luncheon deadline soon
Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA) will hold a fourth To-Go luncheon to benefit Aurora area food pantries from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 6 at Gaslite Manor, 2485 Church Road, in Aurora.Meal choices are roast beef with red potatoes and carrots, chicken marsala with red potatoes and...
Story time at Eola Library June 12
International author, poet, artist, and award-winning photographer, Jo Fredell Higgins, will offer a story time/book event at the Eola Library, 555 S. Eola Road, in Aurora, at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 12, outside in the garden area between the Fox Valley Park District and the Aurora Library buildings. Jo will...
Latinx communities Aurora vaccine focus
An Aurora coalition of Latinx churches, organizations, and elected officials has been formed to focus on the equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to the Latinx community of Aurora, particularly in the City’s two largest counties of Kane and DuPage. Only 11.8% of Kane County’s approximate 155,000 vaccines have been...
Squalor, tenements, potato famine, failed to stop Irish
The New Year 1890 brought a harsh March Winter to New York City. The hoar frost on the tree limbs and branches made it look like a silver brush had painted over it all. The Irish had arrived to its tenements. There was little fresh air, or water. Cinders and...
Early voting in Naperville under way
Two early voting locations are available in Naperville for the April 6 General Municipal Election for residents of DuPage and Will Counties. Early voting will end Monday, April 5. Election Day is Tuesday, April 6. • Early voting for DuPage County Naperville residents will take place in Meeting Rooms A...
On politics and gender identification
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Second in a series The first part is available at thevoice.us/on-sex-our-chromosomes-survival-gender-identity-politics-the-future Gender dysphoria is a rare psychological condition for some teens battle. With males, it occurs between .003-.014% of the population. In females it occurs less frequently at a rate of .002-.003% of the time. Teens...
Best advice on banned books: Leave Dr. Seuss alone
And to think I’ll never see it again on Mulberry Street. Is The Chas in a tizzy over the antics of the dizzy who are using their writer’s tools to turn us all into fools? You bet he is, just like nobody’s biz! He’s ready to bust a gut over...
Aurora Regional Fire Museum appoints five Board members
During the meeting of the Aurora Regional Fire Museum Board of Directors last week, the Aurora Regional Fire Museum appointed five Board members, each to serve a three-year term. The Board of Directors is the governing body for the Aurora Regional Fire Museum and consists of up to 15 members...
Recipe of the Week: Clam and Fish Chowder
Ingredients2 tablespoons butter2 cups chopped onion1 cup white button mushrooms, diced1 stalk celery, diced4 cups chicken stock4 cups diced potatoes2 cloves of garlic, minced1 (3 oz) package of bacon bits2 pounds cod, diced into 1/2 inch cubes1 (6.5 oz) can of minced clams in clam juice1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoningsalt...
Poem: Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow
They say the worst is over—and for that we pray;Too many of us though, to that we just betray.You hear:“Nobody’s going to tell me what to do.”And many more do the same thing, agreeing too.Three hundred years ago, this attitude gave birthTo much of our expansion west, of measured worth.The...