Northfield
-
The SoapboxMay 19, 2012 5:00 am - No need for speed: Summer approaches, and that means dreaded road construction. But what’s more annoying — and dangerous — is that people still drive too fast through co...
-
Make taxpayers part of pension solutionMay 19, 2012 5:00 am - For decades the state of Illinois has abdicated its contractual responsibility to fund the state’s pension systems. State legislators and governors, instead, decided to ...
-
Something to celebrateMay 19, 2012 4:40 am - Often when I open the Sunday Daily Herald I see, but do not open, the section “Celebrate.” I was once — a very long time ago — a groom, but probably not expecting to kno...
-
Make a commitment and honor itMay 19, 2012 4:40 am - I appreciate Gov. Quinn’s letter in the May 13 Chicago Tribune telling us that we should honor our mothers by saving our state. I sometimes think my mom has more common ...
-
8 years of Obama? I don’t think soMay 19, 2012 4:40 am - In Fence Post May 16, Mr. Kirkland states that we are “most certainly” better of that we were four years ago. Well, Mr. Kirkland, I want some of your Kool-Aid to drink. ...
-
Big win for Schaumburg’s LinMay 19, 2012 12:40 am - Schaumburg freshman Vincent Lin booked his place in the upcoming boys tennis state tournament by delivering a 3-set victory over Glenbrook South sophomore Ben Hoogland 3...
-
Plaza makes first-team All-N4C for HarperMay 18, 2012 6:44 pm - Harper’s baseball program landed three players on the North Central Community College All-Conference team. Sophomore pitcher Scott Plaza (Prospect) earned first-team ho...
-
Schaumburg Boomers owner to co-own another teamMay 18, 2012 5:54 pm - On the very day the Schaumburg Boomers baseball team began its inaugural season on the road, owner Patrick Salvi Friday announced that he’d become a partner in a collegi...
-
Elgin in 4 months, not just a dayMay 18, 2012 3:19 pm - Elgin’s 7th annual community photography event is getting a fundamental redesign this year. Elgin 1440 started in 2006 asking photographers to submit photos from a sing...
-
Video of drone flying over Elgin appears bogusMay 18, 2012 1:03 pm - A video that’s going viral on YouTube shows what the poster purports to be a surveillance drone flying over Elgin. In the 41-second video, published May 13, you se...