Park Ridge Schools
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District 300 students protest SearsSep 03, 2011 12:00 am - It’s not just leaders in Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300 that are dissatisfied with Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Co. A group of high school stu...
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U-46 seeks parent volunteers for slew of committeesSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - When Maura Contreras looked around PTO meetings at Horizon Elementary School in Hanover Park, the mother of three students in Elgin Area School District U-46 didn’t see ...
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Worthy goal should become a modelSep 01, 2011 5:00 am - First, some facts and figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: Ÿ Obesity among children and adolescents has nearly tripled over the past 30 years — from just o...
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Arlington grads reunite 60 years laterSep 01, 2011 12:00 am - Thoughts turned to simpler times last month when members of the Arlington High School Class of 1951 gathered for their 60th reunion. Bobby socks, poodle skirts and doing...
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Barrington man ends English Channel bid, for nowSep 01, 2011 12:00 am - Barrington resident Don Macdonald, 49, has officially given up his bid to swim the English Channel this year, due to uncooperative weather. Though Macdonald knew he’d al...
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Schaumburg agencies team up to fight childhood obesityAug 30, 2011 12:00 am - Amid startling information about obesity among its schoolchildren, a group of public and private Schaumburg-area organizations has formed to fight childhood obesity. Amo...
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Dist. 57 is reaping money mess it sowedAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - District 57 just called, purporting to be conducting a community survey regarding “the district’s financial situation. (Read: Trying to justify a referendum).” The quest...
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Maine South starts quickly, handles WarrenAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - It was an ominous start to the season Friday night for Warren — and it only got worse. Maine South senior Paul Preston returned the opening kickoff 98 yards as the No. 1...
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Maine South starts quickly, nets victory over WarrenAug 25, 2011 11:00 pm - It was an ominous start to the season Friday night for Warren and it only got worse. Maine South senior Paul Preston returned the opening kickoff 98 yards as the No. 1-...
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Blame the state for U-46 bus woesAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - I empathize with the U-46 parents over the new bus routes reported in the Daily Herald where students must walk up to 1½ miles to catch a bus. However, it appears to me ...