Articles filed under Forest Preserve Districts
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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...
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Lake County's Lawlor, Maine look ahead to big projectsDec 07, 2014 12:01 am - Even as the political divides in Washington and Springfield worsen, no such partisan enmity infects the Lake County Board or the Lake County Forest Preserve District boa...