Margery Frisbie
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Women who influenced Arlington Heights historyMar 11, 2009 11:00 pm - In my February column, I referred to the redoubtable Myrtle Lauterburg as a "town mother," one of those women who exerted unusual influence on Arlington Heights' history...
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Memories of a windfall, via a new racetrackDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - The Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama will be a thrilling experience for the millions expected to gather in Washington that day. For hotels and local ...
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No shortage of adventure in Arlington HeightsNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - Once again, the world is catching up with Arlington Heights. When I read in The New York Times recently that zip lines that allow zooming through treetops are the latest...
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Arlington Heights Preschool depicts growing diversityOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Once upon a time Arlington Heights (then called Dunton) was a homogeneous community. William Dunton came from upstate New York. And most of the early settlers in this pa...
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Barack Obama's nomination cheered by local racial pioneersSep 09, 2008 11:00 pm - While Barack Obama made glorious history accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, we magnified the Lord with the couple w...
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Referendum keeps rainwater from going everywhereAug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - "Water, water, everywhere" was on the front pages of newspapers all summer, as many rivers, even the Mississippi, flowed over their banks. Once Arlington Heights was its...
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Olympic Pool has a soggy pastJul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - "Water, water, everywhere" was on the front pages of newspapers all summer, as many rivers, even the Mississippi, flowed over their banks. Once Arlington Heights was its...
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Arlington Heights is a little less wildJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - The recent photo in the Neighbor section of the lively garter snake sticking its red tongue out at the photographer recalled for me the last garter snake I saw in Arling...
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Arlington Hts. residents followed Chavez's lead in protestsMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - A Chicago columnist writing recently of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America reminded me of the 1960s in Arlington Heights when you could have seen a Cath...
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Did they have old, new, borrowed and blue?May 01, 2008 11:00 pm - In this season of frantic wedding preparations, it's instructive to remember how it was when William Dunton married Almeda Wood in 1845. Theirs was a simple ceremony in ...