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Find bargains at Batavia's citywide garage saleMay 02, 2017 11:00 pm - It's garage sale weekend. It's a time for bargain shoppers to find some fabulous deals and a great opportunity for the Fireworks Committee to earn some money for the bea...
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'Rats and mud': Memories of Dundee World War I veteransMay 02, 2017 11:00 pm - Rats and mud. Put them together, and they create unbearable living conditions for a dozen or so Dundee Township and Elgin residents who fought in World War I. To describ...
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There are steps you can take to reverse crankinessMay 02, 2017 11:00 pm - Q. Lately I've noticed I've become an angry, suspicious, negative person. I want to tell everyone off. More so since the election, but if I think back, this has been bui...
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A confederacy of dictatorsMay 02, 2017 11:00 pm - It should have been obvious, but I missed it: Steve Bannon has been banished and Dennis Rodman is whispering in the president's ear. Oh, OK, maybe not, but it could exp...
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Music notes: Celebrate spring with jams at Mackey's in McHenryMay 02, 2017 6:00 am - Jam is in season Spring Jam is back for its 13th year of toe-tapping funk, foot-stomping bluegrass, and deep, deep jams from Chicago and throughout the suburbs. Friday n...
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Ziehm: PGA veteran Marty Schiene named head coach at DePaulMay 02, 2017 1:01 am - Marty Schiene spent 15 seasons playing on the professional golf tours around the world, qualified for four U.S. Opens and won the Illinois Open three times. Now he has l...
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Trump needs respect - and a better idea - before he'll get his wallMay 02, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump's "Great Wall" along the Mexican border is a truly terrible idea. It would be hugely expensive, costing an estimated $21.6 billion. It would not work. An...
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Language leads to a lesson of historyMay 02, 2017 1:00 am - How absolutely grand a moment it must have been when the White House got the idea of comparing the American aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, en route supposedly to scar...
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Rozner: As always, Yanks' Girardi in a good placeMay 02, 2017 1:00 am - Joe Girardi would have quite obviously preferred to see his own team win the World Series last fall. When you're the manager of a baseball team, there can be no other an...
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Wife's tirades about employees are getting tiresomeMay 01, 2017 11:00 pm - Q. Over the years my wife has supervised dozens of employees. By all accounts, she has been a good boss and her employees like her. But here's the rub. It seems like eve...