ECC's Spartan Drive to close: Spartan Drive, the primary access road to Elgin Community College, will close to traffic Oct. 12 until roughly Dec. 1 from McLean Boulevard to Renner Drive. The 3,000-foot section of roadway on the east side of the coll...

To list your club's meetings, e-mail to foxvalley@dailyherald.com, or fax to (847) 608-0849. Friends of the Fox River: The Elgin Association of Firefighters Local 439 and the Friends of the Fox River are hosting a river cleanup from 9 a.m. to n...

AARP driver program AARP Driver Safety Program is being offered in Batavia in conjunction with Green Light Driving School from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today and Wednesday. Participants who successfully complete the program may be eligible for a discount fr...

Social networking Web sites are all the rage these days, exploding beyond the teen and 20-something crowd to include Baby Boomers. So is it any surprise that even a growing number of libraries - the old standbys offering encyclopedias and other refe...

The following is a list of upcoming public hearings on the changes Pace is contemplating for fares and bus routes. • 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 19, Pace Headquarters, 550 West Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights • 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tues...

A place for old computers: East Dundee is holding an electronics recycling day from 8 a.m. to noon today in the parking lot of Santa's Village, on Route 25 just south of Route 72. The event is only open to residents of Kane County. Computers and per...

After three years of legal wrangling, a dispute between the Geneva and Batavia Public Library districts over Batavia's annexation of 1,600 mostly undeveloped acres in western Kane County might finally come to an end. Attorneys from both sides argued...

To list your club's meetings, e-mail to foxvalley@dailyherald.com, or fax to (847) 608-0849. McHenry County Legionnaires: McHenry County Legionnaires from all county posts are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the McHenry County Council ...

Less green for greens: The Batavia city services committee will discuss cutting back on Christmas decorations for the downtown at a meeting at 7:30 tonight in the first-floor city council chamber of the Batavia Government Center, 100 N. Island Ave. ...