Category: Feature

Just a few thoughts on more than a few topics for our consideration: •The Fox Valley Music Foundation recruited volunteers to renovate a recent historic building into The Venue, a live music room at 21 S. Broadway, Aurora, and celebrated its fifth anniversary. •Sports, but community: Fred Weidner is the...

Holidays are important. In some variation, all holidays carry significance and to each person provide a meaningful understanding. Memorial Day originally started following the Civil War (1861-1865). A few years following the Civil War a huge number of survivors, many of them widows, decorated grave sites with flowers and memorabilia....

Communication is important. Listening is essential. “The Voice newspaper in northern Illinois. How may I help you,” is a possible method of answering the business telephone. That’s the way we answer the telephone, especially on Mondays and Tuesdays, our usual deadline days in the function of the newspaper based in...

Can we keep it? That question always surrounds the United States Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. The scholarly, learned, and profound, delegates in the 1770s and 1780s who helped draft the legal course to our country had little guidance than the previous Articles of Confederation, and several European...

Special years can be understood in advance. This year, 2024, is such a year. If no other reasons, this year we will encounter the Summer Olympic Games and the major political parties’ national conventions. Any other items to be added make little difference in the quality of a year, however,...

General special days are more prevalent at this time of the year, late April into May: April 22 each year is Earth Day, April 28 is Workers’ Memorial Day, May 1 has various designations to include International Workers Day and May Day. Actually, the calendar is full of special designated...