Elgin Schools
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Young Elginite with troubled past helping teensJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Kevin Echevarria stands in the second floor hallway of Gifford Street Alternative School one recent afternoon, nervously tucking and untucking his starched button-down i...
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Fremd's Brottman sparkles, but Loyola's Miller fires perfect gameJun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - EAST PEORIA - Lena Brottman deserved a better ending. Fremd's junior pitcher matched Loyola fireballer Devin Miller for seven innings, but a pair of throwing errors in t...
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Burlington Central falls short in 3A semifinalJun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - EAST PEORIA - Burlington Central's softball team had not been seriously tested defensively coming into the Class 3A state semifinals at EastSide Centre here Friday morni...
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U-46 to cut officer presence at Elgin middle schoolsJun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Escalating costs compounded by budget cuts will slash police officers' presence in Elgin middle schools next year, Elgin Area School District U-46 officials said this we...
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Cross to exit North Barrington school's stageJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Retiring North Barrington School Principal Deb Cross sees parallels between the fields of education and entertainment - specifically between herself and Jay Leno. Just a...
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Burlington Central ready for Oak ForestJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - EAST PEORIA - If numbers and statistics are worth anything at all, it's pretty clear that Burlington Central's softball team will face its toughest test of the postseaso...
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Fundraising strong in Palatine District 15Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Shortly before school ended, two Palatine Township Elementary District 15 schools tallied up the results of their yearlong fundraisers. Willow Bend School held an assemb...
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Huntley family has an extra reason to celebrateJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The Bien family of Huntley hasn't had many reasons to celebrate recently, but they had one last weekend. Greg Bien, 58, was able to walk his daughter, Kristin, down the ...
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Dundee-Crown rallies around family of sick Carpentersville girlJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - After two years of chemotherapy, the Diaz family thought 6-year-old Cindy's leukemia was gone. "She was fine with the treatment. No more medicines at all," said Maria To...
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State looking at practical side of educationJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - As a graduate student in Northern Ireland, I used to marvel at just how different the United Kingdom's educational system was from our own. For one, 11-year-olds took an...