Algonquin Opinion
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Soapbox: For children's sakeSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Earlier this week, police arrested a convicted sex offender in Glen Ellyn after he was accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl who lived in the same apa...
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Soapbox: District 300 puts FOIA onlineSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Community Unit District 300 recently began offering Freedom of Information Act forms and documents on the district's Web site, www.d300.org. If you click on the "Freedom...
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Times, techniques change, but mission stays the sameSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - We are, it appears, cursed to live in interesting times. There was a time when the "make money" portion of the Daily Herald's well-known three-pronged mission statement ...
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Mt. Prospect storm response first rateSep 09, 2007 11:00 pm - To the editor: On Aug. 23, our area was ravaged by a severe storm with damaging winds. The rainfall was extreme and tornado-like winds toppled trees, taking wires with t...
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Light needed for church trafficSep 09, 2007 11:00 pm - To the editor: I am writing in regard to the traffic jams that are created on Barrington Road when Willow Creek Church services let out, and South Barrington police who ...
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What about the next, bigger storm?Sep 09, 2007 11:00 pm - To the editor: The storm on Thursday brought about a startling realization: we are unprepared. While 911 rang without answer on our phone, neighbors received "all circui...
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Storm shows how 'global' we can beSep 09, 2007 11:00 pm - To the editor: It's rather sad that it sometimes takes a disaster to bring out a sense of community in people -- to get people relating to one another. In our recent ext...
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Wouldn't Betty Loren-Maltese Memorial Tollway be more apt?Sep 09, 2007 11:00 pm - You wouldn't name the Brookfield Zoo after Michael Vick, the official canine exterminator of the NFL. O'Hare International Airport isn't going to be renamed for the mayo...
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Township leader earns their thanksSep 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Many thanks to Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Robert Miller for his prompt and caring assistance to our community. When we learned the Fox River was forecast to ri...
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'Going green' can save public's green, tooSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Not since the late 1960s and early 1970s has there been such focus on the environment and what could be done to protect it. Pollution control and energy conservation hav...