Month: August 2026

Recipe of the Week: California Roll Salad

Ingredients1/2 cup uncooked white rice1/2 cup nori (roasted seaweed), crumbled1 English cucumber, cut into 1 inch strips2 avocados, peeled, pitted, and cubed2 cups shredded imitation crabmeat2 teaspoons wasabi powder, or to taste1 tablespoon mayonnaise1 tablespoon soy sauce1/4 cup rice wine vinegar1 tablespoon white sugar1 teaspoon sesame oil1 tablespoon sesame seeds

Aurora students honored for international LEGO tournament

At July 29’s Aurora City Council meeting, mayor John Laesch honored six Aurora students for finishing in second place at an international LEGO tournament in Massachusetts last month. From June 11 through June 14, Team Timeless, which is comprised of seventh-grade student Adhrit Chivali, third-grade student Siddharth Chavali, seventh-grade student

Opinion: Blurring the line of democrats, communists

By Bob Mangers, veteran, Yorkville What’s the difference between democrats and communists today? Very little! The once proud Democratic Party is disappearing. They have gone from being called democrats, progressive democrats, democratic socialists, and now some profess to be communist. According to news reports there are 35 democratic socialists running

A head for an eye: The government’s war on us all

By John & Nisha Whitehead We have been ambushed. We should be talking about the dangerous, destabilizing things being done to this country. We should be talking about the data centers spreading across the landscape, draining electricity and water, straining local infrastructure and expanding the technological machinery needed to track,