Tag: Carter Crane

Second-round high school football games provide tougher tests

Batavia High School senior running back Art Taylor cruised into the end zone midway through the third period of the first round playoff game Saturday against Thornwood. It was his third touchdown of the game and the last by the Battlin’ Bulldogs in the 49-8 victory over visiting Thornwood in...

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Agony and ecstasy extends to high school sports playoffs’ goal

Goals in high school sports includes success in postseason play. East Aurora High School’s football team entered Friday’s final regular-season game with hopes kindled for the school’s first postseason berth since 1982. Host Elgin’s last playoff trip was in 2010. East Aurora head coach Nick Kukuc had collected his players...

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High school playoff bids, conference championships, on the line

By Carter Crane – High school Fall sports other than football, holds State tournaments and countdowns to State tournaments.. A salute to champions in high school golf, soccer, and tennis, is below, with girls volleyball, girls swimming, and boys and girls cross country on the precipice of starting tournaments. There...

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Oswego street closures ready to clog traffic for construction

A recent discussion with an interested individual revealed that the person was unaware that The Voice does not print all the news that fits. It is a continuing process of squeezing, trimming, and consolidating to present information. Then many good items must be left out. It is reality. Here are...

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Proposal in IHSA playoffs picks up steam

By Carter Crane Change is all around us in high school sports. Some football teams in the lead have important showdown games coming up and more than a few teams have two weeks to earn playoff berths. Golf, tennis, and soccer teams are starting their postseason tournament treks, with boys...

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Newspapers continue valuable service, from Ben Franklin

Newspapers started in the late 1690s in Germany and England and a few years later in the American Colonies. The most famous early newspaper person was venerable Benjamin Franklin who grew up in his older brother’s print shop in Boston and learned the printing trade. Franklin and a partner, Hugh...

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IHSA in playoffs, eight football teams each 6-0, 2-4 teams on the bubble

By Carter Crane The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Fall playoff season is upon us in some sports and the soccer playoffs started at the end of last week and this week. Boys and girls State championships in golf will be played Saturday. Tennis sectional tournaments will be Saturday. The...

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Active in Aurora: Morton’s restaurant, Poet Laureate search

With the annual Newspaper Week next week we should have a salute to and reference to functions of a community newspaper. We have the experience of tight space and do not have to float photos and articles. We leave out many relevant items we would and should include. With that...

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Review: Cubs, Sox, to top quality high school football teams

Major League Baseball questions to ponder while considering the competitive high school football season: Would Joe Maddon be the manager of the Chicago Cubs if the relief pitching had excelled? Will the Chicago White Sox continue to be confident with many good, young, players? • Seven high school football teams...

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Carter Crane editor of The Voice

Involvement: Climate strike, Youth Summit in Aurora, walks

The largest climate protest worldwide Friday, Sept. 20 has the number of participants still in the accounting process. Organizers estimate that there were approximately four Million protesters worldwide in between 150 and 163 countries and on all seven continents in approximately 2,500 events. Germany is estimated to have formed the...

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Many awards pay tributes, LaSalle Auto Show back in drive

There are items to consider while we ponder the arrival of both the Saturday, Sept. 21 Friends of the Fox River clean-up in seven Kane County communities and the 10th Aurora GreenFest at the Prisco Center and McCullough Park of the Fox Valley Park District from 10 a.m to 4...

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Nurtured dream ends up as Charlie’s Silver Spoon in Aurora

It is living the American Dream. It is about following plans and designs. It is making a difference. At a time when tributes and praises roll in by longtime Aurorans about the late 94-year-old John Galles, who died August 14 after many years as owner of Johno’s on Downer Place...

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