“Bake your honey cake, All browning and sweet. Bake it at 3 o’clock for tea, Bake it for you and for me.” —Jo Fredell Higgins Welcome to the New Year 2022. May it be one of joy and plenty. Kings and priests regarded the sanctity of the bees and found
Sugar Grove resident Katelyn Schultz, a student at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, has received the Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association’s 25th annual scholarship. Dick Schindel, AARTA president, announced the $1,500 award at the social-service group’s membership luncheon Dec. 7, 2021 at Gaslite Manor in Aurora. Accompanied by her
By Brittnay Haag Free your houseplants’ roots this Winter by creating organic art for your home through kokedama, a form of Japanese bonsai, where plants are grown in a special soil mix and wrapped in moss. Kokedama is a uniquely-beautiful way to grow houseplants in a non-traditional way. Kokedamas can
Aurora receives several inches of snow Tuesday this week.
Nathan “Nick” Macejak shares a big and prolonged welcome home hug with his son, Will, Saturday at AMVETS Post 103 in Aurora.
During its holiday luncheon Tuesday, Dec. 14 at Enticing Cuisine Banquets, the Batavia Women in Business (BWIB) raised $1,605. The combination of money and donated gift cards was divided between the Batavia Access Toy Drive and the Batavia United Way’s Adopt A Family program. Additionally, attendees donated tables filled with
Russ George, left, Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora president, presents a $500 check to John Jaros, Aurora Historical Society executive director and Mary Clark-Ormond, society president.
Volunteers Olivia Morton of Montgomery and Bill Collins, Naperville, load a patron’s vehicle with gifts Wednesday, Dec. 22, at Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry. In a drive-thru giveaway,
King David Simpson, left, leads a toast with queen Kerry Griswold, right at West Aurora High School music department’s 34th annual Madrigal concerts Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 18-19, at the royal banquet hall (West cafeteria).
An Aurora University handbell ringer performs Sunday, Dec. 5, at the music department’s annual Christmas concert, “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” in Crimi Auditorium.
A girl uses American Sign Language to “talk” holiday wishes with Santa, Dan Basalone of Lisle, at a 15th annual pizza party Thursday, Dec. 16, by Aurora Noon Lions Club for Aurora-area deaf and hearing-impaired kids.
A member of the Aurora Police Department presents stuffed animals to children at the APD’s stuffed animal giveaway Monday at the Benavides STEAM Academy in East Aurora School District 131.
By Jason Crane The Aurora City Council honored Aurora’s Water Production Department Tuesday, Dec. 21 at the Aurora City Council Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting for achieving first place in the Kane County Water Association Water Taste Contest. It is the eighth time Aurora’s water received the award for
The season of Christmas arrives once again. Just as it always has. Just as it always will. Many centuries ago, the Germany people honored the pagan god Oden during the mid-Winter holiday. Germans were terrified of Oden because they believed he made nocturnal flights through the sky to observe his
It’s that time of year again! The Aurora Public Library District (APLD) is gearing up to start the 2022 Winter Reading Adventure. Grab your hot cocoa and settle in because how you participate in this year’s program is totally up to you. We encourage you to enjoy time with your
Somonauk High School’s Brendan Roberts, 10, drives against Aurora Christian School’s Danny New, 20 Saturday, Dec. 18.
East Aurora High School’s Nathaniel Robinson, 5, drives around a Streamwood defender Tuesday, Dec. 14.
The 25th annual Cookie Walk was held in the downstairs dining room at the United Methodist Church of Plano Saturday, Dec. 11.
Educators at McCleery Elementary school pose with 542 holiday stockings donated by Christ Community Church of Aurora.
In case you haven’t visited downtown recently, there are a lot of new things to see. Aurora is growing, and downtown is shining brightly with new residential and more than a dozen businesses that opened this year. See what’s new in downtown Aurora: • French 75 Gallery and Lounge, 56
