Columns
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Batavia, its residents generate many stories over 10 yearsNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - Ten years ago, the Daily Herald called me and asked me if I would be interested in writing a column about Batavia. At the time I was writing for another area paper but I...
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Lisle plans a busy holidayNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - On the first day of December, Lisle will celebrate the start of the Christmas season with an official tree lighting and a weekend of events sure to make you start singin...
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Gun control not a partisan issue for some lawmakersNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Illinois gun-control advocates handed out their 2007 awards Monday in Chicago, aware that the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court may make the biggest impact on gun ...
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Web sites offer peek at local historyNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - In addition to occasional feedback from this column, I also receive queries about Naperville via the "Contact Us" link on various Naperville Web sites, including ones fo...
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Lake Co. violin star returns home for recitalNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - "It felt quite glad at all the need and misfortune it had suffered. Now it realized its happiness in all the splendor that surrounded it. And the great swans swam ro...
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This bunch of backs really doesn't matterNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Maybe the Bears' tradition of Hall of Fame running backs has spoiled me over the years. Apparently that isn't the case for others, judging by Lovie Smith's weekly news c...
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Daughter needs a dose of growing upNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Q. My daughter "Teri" and son "Mark" have always been close, and included each other in their social lives. A couple of years ago, Teri's fiance broke their engageme...
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You'll want a second helping of sweet comedyNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - "Waitress" -- I was worried this would be yet another story about a good-hearted but lonely person who expresses her inner beauty via the preparation of food (see "L...
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Can moving to another country offer a better retirement?Nov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Several years ago a Dallas couple approaching retirement disappeared. Well-known on the charitable event circuit, the couple was in Dallas one day and gone the next. Pho...
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Local women invent way to protect your purseNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - A pair of best friends created a decorative devise designed to prevent the theft of a woman's purse. Martha Curnow of Schaumburg and Vicki Ricker of Plainfield have been...