Columns
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Reconnect with nature's healing powers for Earth DayApr 18, 2016 6:00 am - It's Earth Day season, and I'm frazzled. The pace is frenetic, the expectations high, and the to-do list impossible. This time of year is just as crazy for a naturalist ...
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Try these natural remedies during spring allergy seasonApr 18, 2016 5:30 am - It seems like the long dark of winter is over and that spring is finally here. Although that may be good news, for many spring is the season when allergies really kick i...
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Where to look out for spring road constructionApr 18, 2016 5:30 am - They're back: Bulldozers. Front-end loaders. Excavators. Cement trucks. Construction season 2016 is upon us, and it's a significant year for many reasons. For long-suff...
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Soccer: Buffalo Grove's Kowalski makes the Butler connectionApr 18, 2016 1:00 am - Amanda Kowalski needed just one visit to Indianapolis and she was hooked. "When I got on campus, I was astonished," she said of Butler University. "I never knew such a s...
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Citizens must force redistricting reformApr 18, 2016 1:00 am - During our years of service in the Illinois House of Representatives, we worked together on many issues and projects to benefit our districts and our region and state, e...
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College baseball: Bourbon quickly producing for NU's baseball teamApr 18, 2016 1:00 am - Lake County fans won't soon forget when Willie Bourbon quarterbacked the Stevenson football team to the 2014 Class 8A football state championship. Now a freshman at Nort...
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St. Charles actor finds 'Love' on NetflixApr 18, 2016 1:00 am - Second City alumnus and St. Charles native Chris Witaske auditioned for three parts on Judd Apatow's new Netflix series "Love," but he wasn't quite right for any of them...
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Imrem: Kane's Game 3 penalty costly for BlackhawksApr 17, 2016 5:01 pm - You'll never guess who contributed mightily to the Blackhawks' loss on Sunday in the United Center. No, seriously, you'll never guess. Patrick Kane, that's who. That's l...
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Do we really want to obey - or enforce - speed limits?Apr 17, 2016 7:00 am - Some pearls of wisdom from our letters to the editor column: Responding to Transportation Writer Marni Pyke's column about the perils of merging via "cattle chute" onto ...
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Homeowner's aging copper pipe needs to be replaced promptlyApr 17, 2016 5:00 am - Q. I would be interested in your take on a strange plumbing issue. My home is 21 years old, and there have never been any problems with any of the copper piping in my ho...