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Gold Medal Fashion Show draws crowds for NWSRA fundraiserMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - A unique fundraising event played out last week, that once again drew record-size crowds. The Gold Medal Fashion Show drew nearly 700 people to jam the Belvedere Banquet...
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State takes over control of controversial hotelMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A boondoggle hotel that had become a financial albatross for taxpayers and a political one for others is now being run by the state, officials announced T...
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BG seniors leave mark of successMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - A 20-20-20-20 vision is tough to focus on for a freshman. "I never understood the meaning of a 20-win season," Paul Timko said of when he arrived at Buffalo Grove and wa...
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Nature Ridge parents fed up with trailer classroomsMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Enough with the trailers, a group of Nature Ridge Elementary parents told the Elgin Area School District U-46 board Monday. The Bartlett school uses four mobile classroo...
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Accounting firm Porte Brown expands client baseMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Elk Grove Village-based accounting firm Porte Brown LLC is growing, despite a choppy economy, after notching its third acquisition in two years with the purchase of Moun...
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RTA gets more clout with funding packageMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - When state lawmakers handed public transit agencies extra operating cash in January, they gave the Regional Transportation Authority something equally valuable -- power....
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Fire departments get funds for hiresMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - A trio of area fire departments may soon benefit from more "trained, front-line" firefighters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced about $1.8 million i...
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Palatine OKs townhouse development along Northwest Hwy.Mar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - New townhouses are coming to Palatine along Northwest Highway. Village councilmen Monday unanimously approved the 15-unit development at 496 W. Northwest Hwy., just east...
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The briefsMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Artists' reception at BHS art gallery Barrington High School's fourth annual student tea pot show, "Tea for 3D," concludes Thursday with an artists' reception in the sch...
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Strong turnout for U-46 bus voteMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - A sizable majority of Elgin Area School District U-46 transportation employees turned out Tuesday to vote on whether to accept the district's "last, best and final" offe...