All Stories from October 4, 2015 (Change date)
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Furnace giveaway warms hearts of business' workersOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - Giving a furnace away for each of the last eight years to somebody facing difficulties has rewarded the giver as well. Tom Wangler, owner of Confident Aire in Batavia, s...
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Bartlett teen says newspaper helped make her dream a realityOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - Sporting a new prosthetic leg, Tiffany Wallace is getting her stride at Illinois State University in Normal where she is a freshman studying nursing and pursuing sports ...
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Paddock: 'Never forget you are part of a community'Oct 04, 2015 6:12 am - Through the efforts of Robert Y. Paddock Sr. (1917-1999), the Daily Herald has made community service a significant part of its role as a local newspaper. We asked his s...
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Daily Herald supports group's fight against heroinOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - Diane Overgard helped launch ParentsMatterToo last year as a way to equip parents in the fight against heroin use. This is what she had to say to Staff Writer Marie Wils...
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Story connects community, devastated familyOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - A drunk, uninsured driver ravaged the family of Francisco and Diana Valdez of Hampshire on Christmas Eve 2008, taking their home and health, but not their spirit. "We su...
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Daily Herald CEO: We understand the power to change livesOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - To our readers: Those of us who are longtime Daily Herald staff members understand the power of the Daily Herald in changing lives and in helping to make the commun...
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Interview prep firm tunes in through musicOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - A banking executive and behavior coach Ann Marie Peters, along with human resources expert Karen Goers and lawyer Allison Heverin, co-founded Interview Savvy, a consulti...
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Tough stories bring problems out of shadowsOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - Sometimes, it's a story you stumble across that changes your life. We received a lovely letter from a suburban high school teacher who put a 2012 Daily Herald article ab...
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Family says Daily Herald articles 'reduced the fear factor'Oct 04, 2015 6:12 am - The moments leading up to Alex Novak's accident, ordinary then, now seem surreal. The 15-year-old is eager to start in his first high school football game. He has a brig...
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An injured boy's wish and a newspaper's job to do goodOct 04, 2015 6:12 am - To our readers: Having been in the newspaper business for many years, I'm sometimes asked to recall the biggest story we've covered. That's quite a challenge. There...