A focus on auto safety for the sake of kids in the Summer and all year long takes center stage at the media briefing Tuesday this week at Aurora City Hall. The campaign of Slow Down, Put Your Phone Down, and Slow down for kids, shared the spotlight with Peter
• Kane County’s Recycling collection event: The next one-day event will be Saturday, May 11 from 8 a.m. to noon at 540 S. Randall Road, St. Charles. There will be document shredding available with a limit of four boxes. Electronics, books, and latex paint will be accepted at this event.
How could this be happening right under our noses? That’s what readers wanted to know after my column went viral about the extent to which young children are being bought and sold for sex in America (The Voice, May 2). Where are the police when these children, some as young
Special salutes Monday morning offer honors to Aurora Police Department members involved in stopping the shooting to save lives at the Henry Pratt warehouse in Aurora February 15. Five Pratt employees were killed by an employee who had been terminated from employment. Five Aurora police officers were injured. They received
Robyn Stecklein, North Aurora Police Department crime prevention officer, is a speaker Thursday, April 25 at Cinemark Tinseltown USA theater in North Aurora on scams which target seniors. Stecklein and two Kane County Sheriff’s Office employees, Krysta Kaus and Judith Dawson, were speakers prior to the screening of “The Best
The Aurora Police Department will be host to the Celebration of Courage Recognition Ceremony to honor personnel involved in the Henry Pratt tragedy. The special ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, April 29 at the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Boulevard. More than 40 Aurora Police Department personnel
The community is invited to celebrate the third annual Earth Week Naperville through April 28. The weeklong celebration features volunteer opportunities, special events, and programs focused on sustaining and protecting the environment. New exhibitors, events, and volunteer projects have been added. Naperville Park District’s Fort Hill Activity Center, 20 Fort
Two police officers in Montgomery receive their badges at the Montgomery Village Board meeting Monday at the Village Hall following a swearing-in ceremony by Village Board president Matt Brolley. Left, Eboni Lankard places a badge on her husband, Jason Lankard. Right, Scott Meyn receives his badge placement from Armando Sanders,
The Naperville Police and Fire Departments have awarded the 2019 Telecommunicator of the Year Award to Emergency Communications manager Kalah Considine, who retired April 18, after 42 years of service to the City of Naperville. The announcement of this year’s honoree comes during National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, April 14-20.
An Aurora woman was arrested over the Easter/Passover Holiday weekend after shooting a handgun at her neighbor in Aurora during a dispute in the parking lot of their apartment complex. Lagwanda Hudson, 44, of the 2700 block of Village Green Drive, Aurora, was arrested Saturday morning after firing a
The North Aurora community emergency response team (CERT) receives applause and appreciation at the Village Board meeting Monday after Village president Dale Berman read a proclamation declaring April Volunteer Appreciation Month in North Aurora. Chief David Fisher said in 2018 2,067 hours were volunteered, almost double from the 1,131 in
At the April 9 meeting of the Woman’s Club of Aurora at Belle Salle Banquets, Kristen Ziman, chief of the Aurora Police Department (APD), was presented with a $500 check to honor APD first responders by Club president Cathy Martin. Chief Ziman thanked members for the outpouring of support from
The Oswego Senior Center, 156 E. Washington Street, Oswego, will be host to many events for seniors. All events will take place at the Oswego Senior Center unless otherwise noted. • Medicare Discussions: Understanding Supplement Plans, Wednesday, April 24, 11 a.m.. Choosing a supplement, known as Medigap, plan can be
Aurora Police Department statement: The FBI Cincinnati office has just released a statement indicating that the person in question located yesterday morning was not Timmothy Pitzen. Any remaining investigation into who that person is, including any of the allegations made by that person at the time of his
Five crosses from the memorial at Henry Pratt on Highland Avenue in Aurora, carried by five individuals, prepare to be moved to the Aurora Historical Society’s David Pierce Center Sunday on Downer Place in Aurora. A ceremony was held Sunday at the Pierce Center. The crosses and memorial memorabilia were
A risk the people of Aurora should not have to to take: By Richard C. Irvin, mayor, Aurora, Ill. After a nearly a week of news reports that convicted-murderer Thomas Kokoraleis would reside in nearby Wheaton following his release from custody, Aurora was blindsided over the weekend, March 30-31, when
A 14- year-old boy found Wednesday wandering the streets in Newport, Kentucky says he is Timmothy Pitzen, missing from Aurora since 2011. Wednesday morning, the Aurora Police Department sent two detectives to the Cincinnati area to assist the FBI office there to check on a missing person tip. Detectives working
Assistant corporation counsel for the city government of Aurora, Deborah Lang, explains the proposed amendments to Articles VII and VIII noise abatement ordinance at the Aurora Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday. City government documents state the purpose of the ordinance is to revise dated provisions of Chapter 29, correct
Mayor Richard Irvin of Aurora holds a check for $67,732.80 at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, which was raised at a March 3 fundraiser at a packed Ballydoyle Pub and combined with Firefighters Union Local 99 for the families of the tragic shooting February 15 at the Henry Pratt warehouse in
Alderman of Aurora’s 7th Ward, Scheketa Hart-Burns, fifth from left, was host to a fundraiser Thursday, March 7, at Belle Salle Events Center in Aurora. Many organizations were honored for raising thousands of dollars for additional safety gear for police and fire personnel. Stories of bravery and appreciation were shared
