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Opinion: Why D-112 Should Delay Closings
When my family relocated to Highland Park six years ago, we chose this community based on its excellent schools. Now, the School Board’s decision to close four schools immediately (“BDR3”) jeopardizes...
View ArticleNew Parks Foundation Formed in HP
HIGHLAND PARK – The Park District of Highland Park has established a Parks Foundation to collaborate with residents, community groups and partner organizations to support the projects that enhance the...
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LF Symphony Director is Back
Vladimir Kulenovic, Lake Forest Conductor with combined orchestrasPhotography by Bonnie Robinson LAKE FOREST – Lake Forest Music Director Vladimir Kulenovic will host the Lake Forest Symphony’s...
View ArticleThe Book Stall Host Author Richard Peck
WINNETKA- The Book Stall welcomes award-winning author Richard Peck on Thursday, October 20 at 7 p.m. to celebrate the release of his new novel for young people, The Best Man. In The Best Man, Peck...
View ArticleLeague Hosts Candidate Debate – Oct. 16
The League of Women Voters of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Area is hosting a debate that is a rematch between Robert Dold and Brad Schneider for the nationally watched 10th Congressional race. It is followed...
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Car Burglaries Soar Again
NORTHBROOK — A rash of five car burglaries between October 6 and 10 in Northbrook is part of an area-wide, two-week spike extending from Libertyville to Naperville, according to Dan Petka, the...
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‘Empty Bowls’ Fights Hunger, Fuels Community
HIGHLAND PARK – If 16-year-old Highland Park philanthropist Namrita Narula served alphabet soup at The Empty Bowls Fundraiser, she would be stirring in a lot of extra Cs. “The Empty Bowls Fundraiser...
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Gamer: HP gridders pretty (impressive) in pink
Minutes before the start of Highland Park High School’s home football game against Maine East on Oct. 14, the PA announcer blared, “Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of the pink?” Not exactly...
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Hadley Launches Holiday Card Sale
WINNETKA – “In keeping with our mission, each year since 1956 the Woman’s Board of Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired launches our annual Braille Holiday Card sales during October,...
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Sunday Breakfast: Horwitch Keeps In Step
She danced as a child, as a teen, as a college student. Those figure skates, the ones she wore before modern dance beckoned, rested somewhere in a closet, maybe in a garage, and never moved again....
View ArticleNorth Shorts Musings
“A little extra baggage.” What’s that wristwatch doing in your junk drawer? You went rooting around for a nail clipper, and there was the watch, brand new, its minute hand sweeping in a circle nobody...
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Recap: Czyzynski, Trevians race past GBS
NT quarterback Clay Czyzynski breaks free during his team’s win over Glenbrook South. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER Clay Czyzynski, who is as serious as they come when he has a football in his hands,...
View ArticleLFLB Chamber Sponsors Holiday Button Contest
LAKE FOREST – Youngsters, middle-schoolers and teenagers can fire up their imaginations and sharpen colored pencils for the Chamber’s annual holiday-themed button design contest for the 2016 holiday...
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Go Cubs Go!
Students, staff and other enthusiastic fans from Highland Park and Deerfield high schools cheered on the Chicago Cubs at a rally with WGN-9 Morning News on Friday, September 14. Here are a few photos...
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Opinion: Why D-112 Should Not Delay BDR3
Many families, the world over, have chosen a community in which to live based on a particular school only to have that school close shortly after their move. Huge bummer, I get it. But best I can tell,...
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Wilmette’s Mulls $77M Stormwater Fix
Carpeting and other damaged debris placed at the curb after a rainstorm caused flooding in Winnetka. The North Shore has experienced significant rainstorms causing homes and streets to flood in recent...
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Schneider, Dold Trade Barbs on Guns & More
Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) and former Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield) exchanged views at a League of Women Voters forum in Lake Forest October 16. Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) and former Rep....
View ArticleMark F. Schafer
Mark F. Schafer, suddenly, October 14, 2016, age 58. Beloved husband of Katie nee Miller; loving and proud father of Margaret and Joseph Schafer; dearest brother of Mike Schafer and Maureene (Donald)...
View ArticleBradley Hoyt Jones
Bradley Hoyt Jones, 57, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, October 12, 2016. Beloved father of Spence, Grace and Emma; son of E. Bradley and Ann J. Jones of Vero Beach, FL; brother to Susan Jones...
View ArticleMan Accused of Striking Hospital Worker
LAKE FOREST – Police responded to Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital at 11:11 p.m. on October 13 for a report of a man who was being combative, had physically struck a hospital worker and was refusing...
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