Gilberts Schools
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Jacobs High locked down to head off food fightJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - It all started with an innocent year-end prank. Some students at Jacobs High School brought engorged water balloons to school Friday, where they launched them in the hal...
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District 158 moves to settle lawsuit over leaksJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - One by one, Huntley Unit District 158 is settling with contractors named in a 2008 lawsuit over leaks at two of its Algonquin schools. In the lawsuit, District 158 claim...
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Fox Valley briefsJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Parade volunteers needed: Elgin's Downtown Neighborhood Association is still looking for volunteers for its Fourth of July parade. The parade begins at 9 a.m. Saturday,...
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West Dundee history buff headed to nationalsJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Elizabeth 'Frani' O'Toole is proof that history does repeat itself, especially when it involves Quest Academy in Palatine and the National History Fair. The sixth-grader...
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Cambridge Lakes Charter School seeks renewalJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - The Cambridge Lakes Charter School is hoping to extend its two-year run as a school of choice for Community Unit District 300. Larry Fuhrer, executive director of the sc...
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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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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...
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Elgin Sports Hall of Fame announces scholarship winnersJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The Elgin Sports Hall of Fame Foundation recently announced the winners of $25,000 in scholarships to seven high schools with residents from Elgin. The amount of the sch...