I attended the April 1 Carpentersville Village Board meeting at which President Bill Sarto and Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski tried to oust Paul Humpfer from his elected position as trustee. I am very happed to say they did not succeed. Ramirez-Sli...

When Nestor Angel's oldest daughter, Jessica, decided she wanted to try her hand at karate, it came as no surprise to him. "When she was kind of young, about 3 years old, she wanted to try everything -- baseball, soccer, tennis, ping-pong," he recal...

Community Unit District 300 news Community gatherings: Join the District 300 School Board for its town hall-style community gatherings, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Dundee Township Senior Center in Carpentersville, or 10 to 11:30 a.m. Satur...

On April 16, enjoy an evening of favorite show tunes as the popular duo of Bill and Susan Goodman return to present "The Best of Broadway" at 7 p.m. in the lower-level meeting room at the Dundee Township Public Library, 555 Barrington Ave. in East D...

Talk about making something everyone wants and needs. Asphalt manufacturers will be in huge demand this spring. What will be even bigger is the price of their goods. Asphalt is concrete, sand and rock that's put together with a petroleum-based mix a...

Sometime this morning, the Des Plaines River is expected to crest at 5.9 feet, which is nine-tenths of a foot over flood stage, according to National Weather Service spokesman Jason Puma. At about 1 p.m. Sunday, the river reached 5.82 feet. "It's go...

Even after nearly a quarter-century in the news business, there remain moments when I want to stand on my desk screaming, "Have you people lost your ever-lovin' minds?" And the echo that comes back to me is a definitive "yes." There's no other way f...

It's not often I have the opportunity to talk to students about the life of a newspaper reporter, and to encourage them to follow a similar career path. So, it was a privilege to participate in Bernotas Middle School's first-ever Journalism Day last...

A Carpentersville trustee who got into hot water with remarks made during a dispute with her neighbors reconciled with those neighbors during a meeting Saturday with two local pastors. Police charged Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski with disorderly c...