Northfield
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School, community respond to drowning death of Elgin boyMay 30, 2012 1:00 pm - The crisis response team at Elgin Area School District U-46 sprang into action this week in response to the death of one of its elementary students. Jesus Gonzalez, 9, o...
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Rolling Meadows to treat valuable ash treesMay 30, 2012 11:00 am - Despite voting against treatment for the majority of city trees infected by emerald ash borer, the Rolling Meadows City Council has agreed to try and save about 30 large...
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Elgin mayor holds 'Walk with Mayor'May 30, 2012 5:30 am - Health effort is latest by involved mayor
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Take aim at wasteful government spendingMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - The constant bickering between our two parties regarding austerity and increasing taxes is unproductive and basically partisan. Not once have I heard anyone from either ...
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Letter shouldn’t have been editedMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - In the May 18 Fence Post, a letter was edited by the Daily Herald in its online edition because of a phrase used by the Fence Post contributor that was extremely offensi...
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We need more respectful dialogueMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - I feel the need to respond to Tony Novak’s May 18 Fence Post letter regarding the Federal Reserve. I am by no means an expert on the economy, and I don’t fully understan...
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Some advice for future protestersMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - After viewing the craziness with the protesters I’m wondering if we shouldn’t provide a public service announcement, something like: “Dear Citizens, If you find that you...
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Cut salaries for public employeesMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - President Obama is out to raise taxes. The state of Illinois is raising taxes. Soon, it appears, our local taxing bodies will want to raise taxes to pay for all the unfu...
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Dawn Patrol: VFW hall on fire; pension shift to schools stallsMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - VFW gun range fire injures 10 in Villa Park Ten people were injured, two seriously, in a fire that broke out in the basement gun range of a Villa Park VFW Post as a...
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Church whistle-blower should be a heroMay 30, 2012 4:40 am - For months now, reports of money laundering, bribes and corruption in the Vatican, the not-so-holy state, have been reliably, but anonymously reported in reliable newspa...