Parents of Arlington Heights Elementary District 25: Please join me in a slow clap for Sarah Jerome, superintendent and crusader against cupcakes, for elevating District 25 to national laughingstock status. Her zero tolerance policy against frosted ...

I applaud the District 25 school board's decision to eliminate birthday cake items from classroom celebrations. I like the idea of celebrating a child's birthday or teaching a concept without the reward of food. Reducing or eliminating highly proces...

Long Grove Art School: Spoerlein Commons S.C. Suite 209, Arlington Hts. Rd. and McHenry Road, Buffalo Grove. Class instructions are in oil paint, acrylics, watercolor, and drawing. A two-hour workshop/class for adults in oil on Sundays from 2 to 4 p...

Surviving the Loss of a Spouse: Drop-in group meets from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesdays; Jewish Child and Family Services, 1156 Shure Drive, Arlington Heights. Topics include coping with grief, making decisions, managing relationships and staying heal...

Dance camps: Chicago Storm's dance team, the Storm Chasers, led by director Lindsey Jones, holds 12 weeklong dance camps throughout the Chicago area for ages 4-6 and 7-17 from June 16 through Aug. 11. Each camper receives a set of poms, official cam...

To the editor: I attended the school board meeting at which the District 25 board voted to overhaul classroom celebrations, and also to exempt itself from a totally "peanut-free" guarantee to parents. A parent who attended, and whom got extensive co...

The Hoffman Estates History Museum will host a special history exhibit on the earliest schools in Hoffman Estates from 10 a.m. to noon June 7 in the gym of Fairview Elementary School, 375 Arizona Blvd. in Hoffman Estates. A luncheon honoring village...

Prochno schedules town hall meeting Christine Prochno, Republican candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives in the 66th District, will be hosting a town hall meeting from 10 a.m. to noon May 31 at the Central Community Center, 1000 Central...