Earlier this month I had a chance to combine my love of writing and of kids when West Aurora High School English teacher Katie Johnson invited me to speak to a couple of her sophomore honors classes about a topic that is near and dear to my heart – news literacy.
Paul Kluber, who is known to many in the community as the longtime pharmacist and pharmacy manager at the Osco store on Aurora’s West Side, retired from those positions two years ago.
Michael Garrett Wolancevich going into the Hall of Fame as part of the group Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials.
After talking to Nancy Polizzi of Montgomery, I can see why her co-workers in Labor and Delivery at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield are inspired by her desire to help others.
Enrique Alvarez’s passion for baseball has fueled him while dealing with multiple heart surgeries, cancer.
The curtain at the Paramount Theatre has barely gone up on “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” – its official opening night is Friday evening — but there’s another hot ticket getting attention in Aurora’s burgeoning downtown theater scene.
Waubonsee Community College recently announced a new staff member at the campus in Sugar Grove when Hope, a 6-year-old golden retriever, was “sworn in” a couple weeks ago as the school’s first comfort dog.
The Kane County Health Department’s newly-launched “Your Story Matters” campaign encourages people impacted by opioids to share their experiences as a way of providing education and resources but also to help destigmatize drug abuse.
Incident in Aurora Monday highlights concerns about game being played by high school seniors across the country.
On Friday, former TV meteorologist Tom Skilling, retired TV and radio producer Jerry Rose, violinist and concertmaster Isabella Lippi and the late Robert “Bobby” Rosengarden, who gained fame as the bandleader on “The Dick Cavett Show,” were inducted into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame.