Month: February 2024

Sports

College Basketball NCAA Men’s Division I tournament champions

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2023: UConn 76, San Diego State 592022: Kansas 72, North Carolina 692021: Baylor 86, Gonzaga 702020: Canceled due to COVID 192019: Virginia 85, Texas Tech 77, ot2018: Villanova 79, Michigan 622017: North Carolina 71, Gonzaga 652016: Villanova 77, North Carolina 742015: Duke 68, Wisconsin 632014: UConn 60, Kentucky 542013: Louisville...

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Illinois State High School recent boys basketball State champions

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Class 4A2023: Moline 59, Benet Academy 422022: Glenbard West 56, Whitney Young 342021: Canceled due to COVID2020: Canceled due to COVID2019: Belleville West 71, Evanston 592018: Belleville West 60, Whitney Young 56, ot Class 3A2023: Metamora 46, Simeon 422022: Sacred Heart-Griffin 53, Metamora 502021: Canceled due to COVID2020: Canceled due...

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Wonderful time of the year for many in sports

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Spring training baseball, March Madness, both high school and college, other Spring sports evolve. It might be many fans’ favorite time of the year. Just the good, fresh, warm, air might be a part of good feeling. But, in some years, early March can be bitter cold and repressive. We...

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Community events to be enjoyed in Spring, Summer

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It’s that exciting time of year when we can look forward to all of the upcoming Spring and Summer events in the. Aurora and the Fox Valley areas. They are great places to get out and enjoy good, community, events. This year, make sure to add these to your calendar...

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East Aurora High School graduate, Colon Maldanado, earne cross-country All-America honors

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Colon Maldanado, an East Aurora High School graduate, runs to become the first Aurora University woman to earn cross-country All-America honors by taking 29th place in the NCAA Division III Championship event recently.

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Money

Girl Scouts receives gift

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Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois recently received a generous $9,000 grant from Girl Scouts of the USA. Funds from this grant will be used to support international travel for local Girl Scouts, including supporting up to 12 youth and/or adult participants as they travel to Adelboden, Switzerland, to visit Our...

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Events

Maple Sugaring Days in Kane County March 2

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Participants can learn how to tap a maple tree and taste pure, local, syrup at the Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s Maple Sugaring Days, March 2-3, from noon to 3 p.m. at Creek Bend Nature Center. District naturalists will demonstrate how to tap a maple tree, and then participants...

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Government

Governments’ power grabs always out of line

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By John & Nisha Whitehead The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, which Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just...

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History

A Focus on History: February 29 through March 6

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February 29 Hattie McDaniel wins Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Mammy, in Gone with the Wind at the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards. McDaniel was the first African American to be honored with an Oscar. – 1940. March 1 In Salem Village in the...

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Budget pressures in State financial forecast a conflict

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By Jerry Nowicki Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois was set give his sixth State budget address this week, Wednesday, Feb. 19 to lay out his plan for a fiscal year that government forecasters in November 2023 predicted was on pace for a near-$900 million deficit unless corrective action was taken....

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West Aurora High School screens students for heart issues

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The West Aurora High School community united for Young Hearts for Life, a vital initiative to screen students for conditions linked to Sudden Cardiac Death Tuesday, Feb. 13. Organized by West Aurora’s Meghan Hill, the annual event was part of the largest youth heart screening initiative in the U.S.. A...

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Voting important part of our way of life

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Voting is a part of our democratic republic. Imperfect though it is, and as limited as is the public’s participation, it keeps us from being an autocratic society, the latter which diminishes public participation. We are a better society when we take advantage of our opportunities. Too many of our...

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Aurora City Council considers demolition of former YMCA

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By Jason Crane The Aurora City Council is considering a Resolution to approve a demolition and remediation contract with American Demolition Corporation of Carol Stream Ill., for the former YMCA structures at 460-480 Garfield Avenue. Consent was given to the Resolution at the Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting, Tuesday,...

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Government Opinion

Reader’s Voice: A voice for Bill Foster

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February 19, 2024Dear editor; Bill Foster has been our congressman in the 14th and 11th Districts since 2008. In those 16 years he has sponsored 238 bills, co-sponsored 2,266, and has voted in the House of Representatives thousands of times. Every time he votes, Bill proves his values and his...

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Reader’s Voice: Data should be accurate

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February 17, 2024Dear Editor; In a Reader’s Voice February 13 online and February 15 print edition, David E. Smith wrote that Oregon’s deaths from drug overdose increased substantially after 2020 when drugs were decriminalized in the State, implying that this was the cause. Cherry-picked data often lead to inaccurate conclusions....

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Presentation on diabetic neuropathy

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By Russ George The members of the Diabetes Club of Fox Valley were treated to an excellent verbal/slide presentation and discussion on diabetic neuropathy and diabetic wounds, especially the dangers of untreated wounds, at our club’s February 14, monthly membership meeting, held at Oak Street Restaurant, 945 Oak Street, in...

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Smart Cities new exhibit in Aurora

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The City government of Aurora and Nicor Gas announced recently the unveiling of a new educational exhibit on Smart Cities on the first floor of the Development Services Building at City Hall in Aurora. The ribbon-cutting for the new exhibit took place February 14 last week. The exhibit tells the...

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