Arlington Heights • Burglars smashed the rear passenger's-side window and stole a purse between 1:15 and 2:35 p.m. Sept. 8 out of a 2007 Mercedes parked at the Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 administration building, 1200 S. Dunton Ave., po...

Your guide to arts & crafts To submit your listing, e-mail arts&crafts@dailyherald.com, or fax (847) 427-1301. September Country Folk Art Festival: Friday from 6 to 10 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Route 6...

To the editor: We would like to thank the companies who participated Labor Day weekend in Buffalo Grove Days 2007. Their donations of products, food and gifts, as well as their association in this yearly event, made it another successful year! We pu...

When Marybeth Anderson was a fourth-grader at Westgate Elementary School in Arlington Heights, things were different. It was 1961. The school had only been open for a few years. There were no televisions and every student walked home for lunch. Fiel...

You try being an eighth-grade girl in a non-air-conditioned school, Leya Allind told her school board on Thursday. "Picture Day is horrible," said Allind into a microphone with her hand on her hip. "Your hair is all frizzy because you had to run a m...

To submit a listing, e-mail to clubs@dailyherald.com, or fax to Club News at (847) 427-1301. Listings must be received no later than two weeks prior to the event. Palatine Jaycees haunted house: The Palatine Jaycees are seeking volunteers to he...

Baseball Tryouts: The 14U Arlington Hammerheads, a team that has played in the MSBL for five seasons, will hold individual tryouts for the 2008 baseball season. Players must be born after April 30, 1993. Games start early in April and run through Ju...

To submit a listing, e-mail to clubs@dailyherald.com, or fax to Club News at (847) 427-1301. Listings must be received no later than two weeks prior to the event. Palatine Jaycees haunted house: The Palatine Jaycees are seeking volunteers to he...

Basketball Teams forming: Next Level Basketball Academy, in the Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates area, is now forming fall and winter basketball teams for boys in fifth to 10th grade. The fall season begins this month, and the winter season starts the sec...

Baseball Travel tryouts: The Northwest Wolves 13U Baseball Club, based in Streamwood, is looking for players for its 2008 travel team. The first tryout will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Hoosier Grove 700 W. Irving Park Road, Streamwood. P...