Articles filed under Plato Center

• Former Dist. 301school board member sues boss, claiming slander May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Laurel Kling, former president and 12-year member of the Burlington-based Central 301 school board, has filed a slander lawsuit against her supervisor in the Kane County Probation Department. Kling argues that Drug Court supervisor Carrie Thomas told coworkers Kling was "fired" from her post as school board president because Kling was an alcoholic. She seeks more than $50,000 damages and a jury trial.
  

   
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  Images: Daily Herald prep photos of the week May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Prep Photos of the Week gallery includes the best high school sports pictures by Daily Herald photographers. This week's gallery features photos from water polo, track, baseball, softball, gymnastics, volleyball and soccer.
  

   
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  Improbable comeback for Burlington Central May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  With 20 minutes to go in the semifinal of the Class 2A Sycamore girls soccer regional semifinal Tuesday, few in the stands were thinking overtime. No one but the most ardent Burlington Central fans was planning a Rockets' victory celebration. Hampshire led 3-0 and was seemingly able to run out the clock. But by the end of overtime, it was indeed the Rockets who were celebrating. Alyssa Messina scored the tying goal with 1:11 left in regulation, then scored the eventual game-winner halfway through the first overtime as the Rockets completed the improbable comeback for a 4-3 victory.
  

   

• Baseball/Fox Valley roundup May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• District 300 first to offer fourth-year math course May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Seniors at Jacobs, Hampshire and Dundee-Crown high schools will have the opportunity to take a new math class next year with a textbook designed especially for them. The course was developed by the Alliance for College Readiness which includes Elgin Community College and all of its feeder high school districts — Elgin Area School District U-46, St. Charles Community Unit District 303, Burlington-based Central Unit District 301, and Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300, the only district to offer the course next year.
  

   
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  Hampshire HS senior hopes to make a career out of film May 13, 2013 12:00 AM
  When Danny Heck was in eighth grade, he and his friends made an Indiana Jones movie with a camcorder. He had such a good time it prompted some research into the film industry and how one could go about breaking into it. Heck, now a senior at Hampshire High School, has worked with Nicole Thompson, the high school librarian, and the District 300 Foundation over the last year on videos for school and district events. "That's when I really knew that this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life," Heck said.
  

   

• Burlington Central downs DeKalb May 13, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Baseball/Fox Valley roundup May 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  Paige Allen fired a 3-hit shutout and Cassidy Westlund scored the game's only run on a wild pitch in the top of the seventh inning Saturday as the South Elgin softball team stayed alive in the Upstate Eight Valley race with a 1-0 win at Metea Valley.
  

   
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  Kaneland snares sectional title May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Kaneland girls track coach Doug Ecker says his team's goal going into a sectional meet is to qualify as many athletes as possible to the state meet. But earning a sectional championship is nice too. The Knights won the Class 2A Burlington Central sectional title Friday night with 83 points. Hampshire was second with 74. Burlington Central took third with 69 points.
  

   

• Cary-Grove’s Stanley throws no-hitter May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Junior Lauren Stanley had her best outing since taking over the circle for injured senior Lindsay Efflandt, throwing a no-hitter Friday as Cary-Grove's softball team defeated Dundee-Crown 1-0 in a Fox Valley Conference Valley Division game at Cary-Grove. Stanley (7-3) struck out 7 and walked 1 as the Trojans (18-3, 9-2) remained in a first-place tie in the Valley with McHenry and Prairie Ridge. Cary-Grove plays at PR Monday.
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Burlington Central wins BNC title May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  On Monday, the Burlington Central girls track team tied with Byron for first place at the Big Northern Conference meet. On Thursday at the BNC boys meet at Oregon, the Rockets scored enough points to avoid a tie and claim the conference championship. Burlington Central used first-place finishes from Ryan Olsen in the 400 meters and Lucas Ege in the 300 hurdles to help the point total as the Rockets scored 95 points, barely outdistancing second-place Winnebago, which scored 91.
  

   

• Burlington Central clinches Big Northern East May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Burlington Central baseball team clinched the outright Big Northern Conference East Division championship with an 8-2 victory at Rockford Christian in six innings Thursday. The BNC East title is the second straight for Central (11-8, 10-2) and the program's fourth in five seasons.
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Hampshire putting it all together May 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  In years past, while Hampshire's Patti Nihells, one of the longest-tenured area girls track coaches, may not have had the largest teams but she's always had talented individual athletes both on the track and in the field events. This year, Hampshire is enjoying the best of both worlds. The Whip-Purs are fresh off winning the Fox Valley Conference Fox Division team title in only their second year in the conference. Hampshire, which finished third overall in the 14-team FVC meet, will look to continue that season-long success at Friday's Class 2A Burlington Central sectional. At the sectional level, the top two place-finishers in each event and any individual or relay team equaling or surpassing the minimum state-qualifying standard in each event advance to the state finals in Charleston at Eastern Illinois University.
  

   

• Baseball/Fox Valley roundup May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Tri-Cities police reports May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Four tires were stolen from outside a garage in the 6N700 block of Irwin Avenue near St. Charles between 12:01 a.m. April 28 and 6 a.m. April 29, according to a sheriff's report.
  

   

• Fox Valley police reports May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Authorities were called to the 11N300 block of Russell Road in Plato Township at 1:52 p.m. April 28 for a report of shots fired, according to a sheriff's report, No arrests were made. Police found more than 150 shell casings from different types of guns around a small campfire littered with beer cans, the report said.
  

   
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  David Lindley brings the world to the ECC Arts Center May 10 May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley will perform his unique brand of world music during a performance at the Elgin Community College Arts Center on Friday, May 10. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. at the Blizzard Theater in Building H, the ECC Arts Center, on the Spartan Drive Campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.