Kerry Lester
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District U-46 test scores stay putSep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46's 2009 state test scores appear to be largely flat at the elementary level compared to last year, with a majority of schools unable to me...
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Weather brings out families to Fall Family FestSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Fall Family Fest organizer Erika Hedlund was counting herself pretty lucky Saturday. A year after heavy downpours forced officials to cancel the event, hundreds of famil...
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St. Catherine celebrates 14th Irish Fest in West DundeeSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - For the 14th year in a row, thousands turned out to jig, jog and swig at St. Catherine of Siena's Fox Valley Irish Fest. The three-day celebration featured an 8 a.m. 5k ...
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NASA official visits his U-46 rootsSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - As a teen and budding astronomer, Hal Getzelman spent much of his time at Elgin Area School District U-46's Observatory and Planetarium. There, under the watchful eye of...
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Larkin teacher heads to 'arctic's edge' to learn about global warmingSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - First, Elgin High environmental science students took part in a PBS documentary. Now, a biology teacher from across town has headed to the so-called "arctic's edge" to ...
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Larkin students connect to Arctic via teleconferenceSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Chris Bobkowski isn't anywhere near Larkin High School this week. In fact, the biology teacher is about 1,200 miles straight north of Elgin - in Manitoba, Canada, at the...
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Japanese crew taping gifted student documentary at DaVinci AcademySep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Though students were encouraged to act normal and attend to business as usual, Wednesday wasn't your average school day at DaVinci Academy in Elgin. A Japanese productio...
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New Robert Morris campus ups number of colleges in ElginSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - The recent announcement that Robert Morris University will open an Elgin branch next fall brings the total of higher-education institutions in the city to seven. RMU. Ju...
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Lutheran schools help each other surviveSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - They share the same faith, the same roof, and the same struggle to survive. Fox Valley Lutheran Academy in Elgin this fall moved its two teachers and all eight high scho...
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Obama address no big deal for Fox Valley schoolsSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - While President Obama's back-to-school Webcast scheduled for Tuesday has sparked controversy across the nation this week, the topic made little more than a ripple in Fox...