The Aurora Fire Department responded to the Masonic Temple, 104 S. Lincoln Avenue, for a structure fire at 9:57 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7. At the time of the fire the immediate threat to firefighters and residents living in the immediate area was and still is the threat of collapse. To...
Aurora • Saturday, Oct. 12 • 8 a.m. – noon Aurora Farmers Market It will be the last weekend for the 107th season of the Aurora Farmers Market, directly across from City Hall and Water Street Mall, at 65 Water Street. For more information call 630.256.3370. • Friday, Oct. 18...
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His voice was exceptionally smooth when he sat on a stool and sang a song. There was no gyrating commotion behind him. Just a man singing his song. His tenor voice recorded 43 albums of which 15 turned gold. He sold more than 100 Million records worldwide. His voice was...
With this fast-paced world we live in, it’s hard to unwind, relax, and take care of our bodies. Whether it’s the phone buzzing because you received another notification, or your mind is racing about all the things you have to do and don’t want to forget, we all have many...
Aurora • RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway, and McCullough Park, Illinois Avenue and Lake Street, patriotic music, games, food, kids activities, will start at 6 p.m.. Fireworks will be Thursday, July 4 at 9:35 p.m. over the Fox River with viewing at McCullough Park and RiverEdge Park. • Fourth of
To a nation of snowflakes, Christmas has become yet another trigger word. The latest Christmas casualties in the campaign to create one large national safe space are none other than the beloved animated classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, denounced for promoting bullying and homophobia, which first aired on television December...
Oswego Fox Fall Fest Sunday provides posing for photos on a hay wagon in downtown Oswego and painting faces. Carter Crane/The Voice...
Vigilantes with a badge includes the growing squads of militarized police armed with weapons of war who are allowed to operate above the law and break the laws with impunity, but have not made the United States any safer, or freer. Don’t take my word for it. A new study...
At its meeting Thursday, Aug. 9, Naperville Park District’s Park Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit all forms of smoking at its 137 parks across Naperville. The District’s Ordinance 641 was amended accordingly to state that, “smoking or any use of tobacco product is prohibited in all District buildings,...
“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours….When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their...
The United States of America used to be the home of the brave and the land of the free. Not anymore. Now, it is the home of the rich and fatuous and the land of unfettered greed. With the Donald Trump administration in place, capitalism once again has run rampant....
By Lisa Brown – Here is the story about the good luck charms (cross, wreath and water pipe) hanging above the office door on the wall at Banana Split ice cream shop on the East Side of Aurora. The bent pipe serves as a reminder of what happened May 24,
Jeff Long, as a former sports writer, would have understood the change in writing a column with new information just prior to deadline. We learned late Tuesday of the untimely death of Jeff Long, of the Fox Valley Park District. He was in the Batavia High School Class of 1982....
An Aurora Police Mobile Command Post vehicle is on the scene of a freight train derailment at Third and River Streets in Aurora Thursday, May 24. The derailment did not include any injuries on the Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNSF). Several tanker cars were involved. Jason Crane/The Voice
Plainfield resident Doug Needham, left, with daughter Thea Neumann, in Winter gear to run the 2003 Antarctica marathon, spoke about running marathons on seven continents at the Aurora Noon Lions Club’s Monday lunch meeting at Luigi’s Pizza in Aurora. Needham is a retired law-enforcement officer and Aurora Noon Lions Club
Timothy W. Jones, assistant special agent, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Chicago office, was the keynote speaker May 15 at the Aurora Navy League Council 247 monthly meeting at Grandma’s Table Restaurant in Montgomery. Al Benson/The Voice
