This year news media are spending a lot of time covering local elections. I commend them for doing so. Local government plays an important role in our everyday lives. Thus, the people we elect to local office will have a voice on issues like public ...

Helping homeowners avoid foreclosure may be beyond the scope of the village board, but candidates for Carpentersville village president say village leaders can play a role in filling the glut of empty houses. Incumbent Bill Sarto and his two challen...

Elgin parking survey online The city of Elgin is seeking opinions about a trial even-odd parking schedule established for four test neighborhoods from September 2008 through March 2009 to aid with snow removal and leaf collection. The test was in th...

Carpentersville • A Carpentersville man faces a felony charge after he punched his pregnant spouse in the abdomen, police said. Timothy Stedman, 28, of the 100 block of Hazard Road, was charged with aggravated battery to a pregnant person and two mi...

I am writing this letter on behalf of Ed Ritter, who is running for Carpentersville village president. As a teacher at Westfield Community School, I have known Ed Ritter for seven years; and during this time he has been a mentor, a leader and a frie...

Looking for a way to help your neighbors and volunteer close to home? Then become a volunteer literacy tutor with The Literacy Connection this spring. Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in both Basic Reading and English as a Second Language. No s...

On April 7 we have an opportunity to elect a new village president of Carpentersville. It is widely known (locally and across the country) that Carpentersville has a dysfunctional village government. The actions of the board and their absence of dir...