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Learn about including edible fruit trees and plants in your garden, including tips on fruit tree grafting, during a presentation at the Garden Club of ​Lake Zurich meeting on June 2.

Home & garden calendar, May 19-30

Upcoming gardening club meetings and events in the Chicago suburbs, covering topics like growing edible fruit trees in the Midwest, herb gardens and more. Also, list of plant sales, garden walks, and nature walks.

For 40 years, Geneva resident Molly Graff has provided assistance for people nearing the end of their lives, first as a hospice worker and chaplain and most recently as an end-of-life doula.

End-of-life doulas offer solace to clients and their families

Last month, Nicole Kidman revealed she's training to become an end-of-life doula, providing support for people in their final days. Geneva resident Mary Graff has provided that service for more than 40 years, first as a hospice worker and chaplain and more recently as an end-of-life doula who helps clients go gently into that good night.

Nicole Pappanduros, an art teacher at Grace McWayne Elementary School in Batavia, works with fourth-grader Emerson Musatto.

Artistic expression: Batavia elementary school art teacher nurtures ‘creative problem solvers’

Teaching art was a natural career choice for Grace McWayne Elementary School’s Nicole Pappanduros. Pappanduros’ mother, Sandie, taught art at Lions Park Elementary School in Mount Prospect. Pappanduros grew up helping her mom in the classroom. “The art room became a place where I felt comfortable and at home from an early age,” Pappanduros, 43, said.

Neptune's mysterious moon Nereid may be an original, study shows

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Neptune’s far-flung moon Nereid may be the last of the planet’s original companions that managed to survive a cosmic crash, scientists reporte...

There's a wide world of lime-flavored seltzers out there.

What’s the best lime seltzer? 15 top-selling brands ranked

Nailing a natural lime taste is apparently tough business. But testers found enough consensus in an epic fizz-a-thon to name a winner — and to help shoppers decide which brands might line up with their own preferences. Here are the waters that bubbled to the top, and those that simply fell flat.

St. Charles Police Chief Dan Likens said the partnership between the police and the Association for Individual Development to provide a social worker has been a "great relationship."

St. Charles police look to keep social worker program going strong

Last year, 588 residents received social services from the St. Charles Police Department’s in-house social worker. The work is made possible through a partnership between the police and the Association for Individual Development, or AID.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has added the Bradford pear — also known as the callery pear — to its list of invasive plants covered by the state’s Exotic Weeds Act. As of Jan. 1, 2028, it will be illegal to sell the trees in Illinois.

Illinois is banning Bradford pear trees. Here’s why experts want them gone

Bradford pear trees put on a beautiful show in the spring. But Illinois is soon banning their sale.