Articles filed under Forest Preserve Districts
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Gather around the campfire to mark winter solsticeDec 17, 2014 6:01 am - Gather around the campfire as the sun sets on Sunday, Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year. The Forest Preserve District of Kane County will hold its annual Winter Sol...
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What's it like to work for the forest preserve district?Dec 11, 2014 10:00 pm - "I want your job!" said the twenty-something barista as I ordered my latte at the drive-up window. Not two hours earlier, a woman at the local farmers market had said, ...
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Cantore focused on the future of DuPage forest preserveDec 10, 2014 10:00 pm - A dozen years as a DuPage County Forest Preserve commissioner readied Joseph Cantore for this moment. The new president of the forest preserve commission doesn't need to...
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Editorial: Leadership change a costly mistakeDec 10, 2014 4:01 am - After the DuPage County Forest Preserve District hired a new executive director, and then fired him months later at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, there's o...
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Gingerbread Man proves elusive at Lake Co. museumDec 10, 2014 12:01 am - The Gingerbread Man was up to his old tricks Wednesday as young children rushed around the Lake County Discovery Museum in an effort to catch him. Mostly, however, they ...
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New Kane panel leader not sold on Settler's Hill cross country trackDec 10, 2014 12:01 am - It's been four months since the Kane County Board decided to spend $200,000 for the initial engineering and study of a cross country facility at the former Settler's Hil...
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Recycle Christmas tree lights at Kane eventDec 09, 2014 12:01 am - Christmas tree lights not working? Dispose of them responsibly at the Kane County Recycles event from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday Dec. 13, at 540 S. Randall Road, St. Cha...
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Two DuPage panels each welcome a new memberDec 09, 2014 12:01 am - The DuPage County Board and county forest preserve commission welcomed new members Tuesday when they both filled vacancies on their respective boards. Karyn Romano of Gl...
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Kane County gets new forest district leader amid political wranglingDec 09, 2014 12:00 am - Kane County Forest Preserve District commissioners Tuesday selected Mike Kenyon as the district's president, ending the reign of the longest-serving president in the dis...
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An old-fashioned Christmas at Kline CreekDec 07, 2014 12:01 am - There was a time, hard as it may be to believe, when people celebrated Christmas without massive light displays synchronized to electronic music. There was a time when p...