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These restaurant-quality broiled chicken tikka kebabs are supremely tender and simple to make. You can let the meat marinate for up to 8 hours, though even a short rest will infuse it with flavor.

Cooking chicken well can be tricky. Not so with these kebabs.

These restaurant-quality broiled chicken tikka kebabs are supremely tender and simple to make. You can let the meat marinate for up to 8 hours, though even a short rest will infuse it with flavor.

A recent study shows that better balance can mean better mental and physical health.

Patient advocate: Simon says, work on improving balance

A recent article posted by the BBC detailed the positive health effects of being able to balance on one leg. It can improve and maintain balance, mobility and even memory. The thing is, our ability to do it peaks at around age 10 and then slowly declines with age.

A glossary to help cut through seed-packet jargon and confidently plant indoors

It’s time to start seeds indoors for your spring garden. But how can you make sense of the jargon on the back of those seed packets? With this handy glossary at your side, you’ll understand what you’re buying and what it needs from you.

Group leader Marcia OBara, left, wearing an oxygen pack for her COPD, and birding enthusiast Rhea Guertin walk down a smooth dirt path during an accessible outing at Feliz Paseos Park in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 4.

Accessible walks bring joys of birding to people with mobility, other limitations

Wearing an oxygen pack on her back for her COPD, Marcia OBara is leading a group of nature enthusiasts on a mission to see birds. They carry walking sticks on the flat trails, moving at their own pace. This is Birding for Every BODY, one of numerous such excursions offered each month by the nonprofit Tucson Bird Alliance.

Wildlife photographer Steve Jessmore mingles with the crowd at the Feb. 27 opening gala of “Through the Eyes of the Piping Plovers: The Flora, Fauna and Communities of the Lake Plain” at the College of Lake County in Grayslake.

Plovers take center stage in College of Lake County exhibit

Local artists and nature lovers help tell the story of the Lake County landscape and the wildlife that depends on it in a new College of Lake County exhibit showcasing photography and artwork on piping plovers.

Books and clothing, yes; old TV sets, no. Organizations such as Goodwill and Salvation Army have different rules about what kinds of donations they will accept. The Goodwill store in Batavia is on Randall Road.

Spring cleaning? Do’s and don’ts for dropping off items at donation centers

For those doing some spring cleaning and decluttering, here are some do’s and don’ts for donating items to organizations such as Salvation Army and Goodwill.

A group of parents are trying to stop the Archdiocese of Chicago from closing the 65-year-old St. Hubert Catholic School in Hoffman Estates and are now appealing to Pope Leo XIV after Cardinal Blase Cupich declined to intervene.

Coalition appealing to Pope Leo to save St. Hubert School in Hoffman Estates from closing

Both the local pastor and Pope Leo XIV will be asked this week to reconsider the planned closure of St. Hubert Catholic School in Hoffman Estates after the Archdiocese of Chicago formally waived its direct intervention.