All Stories from November 5, 2024 (Change date)
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How to ripen pears and speed up the process (if you must)Nov 05, 2024 10:32 am - As ubiquitous as they are come fall, pears remain a bit of an enigma. Why are they so hard when you buy them? Why do they seemingly take forever to ripen?
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Book Review: ‘The Name of This Band is R.E.M.’ is a vivid journey through the rock band’s historyNov 05, 2024 10:28 am - The best way to read “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is with a pair of headphones and a collection of the band’s albums on streaming services or CDs. Opt for the cassettes or vinyl if you want to go old school.
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Honor veterans at this year’s Wreaths Across America event Dec. 14Nov 05, 2024 10:26 am - The Barrington-based Signal Hill, National Society Daughters of the America Revolution (NSDAR) chapter invites the community to join at this year’s Wreaths Across America Day event at Evergreen Cemetery on Saturday, Dec. 14.
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Celebrate Long-Term Care Awareness Month and a new era in skilled nursing at Lutheran Home in Arlington HeightsNov 05, 2024 10:15 am - As we commemorate Long-Term Care Awareness Month this November, Lutheran Home is proud to showcase the remarkable evolution of senior living communities, focusing on empowered, vibrant residential opportunities, along with multiple levels of care, demonstrating how far we've come from the nursing homes of yesteryear.
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Friends of the AHML support the library's MakerplaceNov 05, 2024 10:07 am - The Friends of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library (AHML) support The Makerplace.
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Ukrainian troops have engaged with North Korean units for the 1st time in Russia, an official saysNov 05, 2024 9:51 am - Ukrainian troops have for the first time engaged with North Korean units that were recently deployed to help Russia in the war with its neighbor, Ukraine's defense minister said Tuesday.
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Finance director’s retirement is latest administrative turnover at Arlington Heights village hallNov 05, 2024 9:48 am - Arlington Heights’ longtime Finance Director Tom Kuehne is set to retire in February amid a recent administrative turnover of department heads at village hall.
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The scary prospect of ‘faithless electors’Nov 05, 2024 9:12 am - They didn’t teach us about faithless electors in grammar school 70 years ago, but they should have. Since then, I learned that I’m not really voting for Tweedledum or Twe...
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Use what works against homelessnessNov 05, 2024 9:12 am - In response to the recent article on a Mundelein camping ban: In a state like Illinois and a county like Lake County — with some of the smartest, best, most well-managed ...
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Steppenwolf’s ‘Leroy and Lucy’ beguilingly reinvents a blues mythNov 05, 2024 8:12 am - Mythologies inevitably build up around innovative artists who become legends beyond their lifetimes. Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu is astutely aware of this in her entrancing world-premiere play “Leroy and Lucy” for Steppenwolf Theatre.