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Getting to know youAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Tony Valente wants to meet you. The new Kaneland High School principal is preparing for his first year by trying to meet as many community members and students as possib...
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Riding program marks 20 yearsAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Main Stay Therapeutic Riding Program, a nonprofit organization in Richmond, is celebrating 20 years of offering equine-related therapeutic activities to people with disa...
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Time for nature's summer symphonyAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - We've been skunked. The highly anticipated appearance of periodical cicadas this summer was, well, a flop. These fabled insects got top billing as THE entomological even...
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Jamaica spared direct hit by Dean
Aug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Hurricane Dean pummeled Jamaica with gusting winds and torrential rains Sunday after the prime minister made a last-minute plea for residents to aba...
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Flooding turns deadly
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Bicycle federation honors organizations that met the ChallengeAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Last month, the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation honored participants and winners in the 14th annual Bicycle Commuter Challenge at a luncheon at the Fairmont Chicago hotel...
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Officials: Miners likely forever lost
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Heroes not very far from home
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The rise and end: Hastert retirement announcement comes with reflection on his unlikely careerAug 18, 2007 1:00 am - Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the Daily Herald on Aug. 18, 2007, when Dennis Hastert announced his retirement from Congress. The high school...
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Library's videos now available as downloadsAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - A new Naperville library service allows users to check out videos from their personal computers. More than 400 movies and instructional, children's and informational vid...