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Elawa Farm Summer Solstice
Under the leadership of Claire Simpson, the Elawa Farm Associate Board held its favorite summer event, Here Comes the Sun, hosting 135 people at the farm on the eve of the Summer Solstice. While the...
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North Shorts
North Shorts by Mike Lubow You’re at a North Shore hot dog shack, a favorite around here. It’s crowded wall to wall, as usual. You and others stand shoulder to shoulder placing orders over a chin-high...
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Save The Date: Robert Nordling Debut
Robert Nordling LAKE FOREST – The Lake Forest Civic Orchestra will introduce its new conductor, Robert Nordling, at the upcoming “Musical Stories” concert on Sunday, September 27, at 4 p.m. in the...
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Tips To Help Your Town Go Green
HIGHLAND PARK – It is not easy being green, but it is important to improve our communities’ natural resources and overall health, according to community leaders who spoke at a recent environmental...
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One Acts Kick Off LFHS Theatre Season
LFHS seniors prep for the annual kick-off to their theatre season LAKE FOREST – It is tradition at Lake Forest High School to start the academic year with a festival of one-act plays selected and...
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Wilmette Community Gardens in Full Bloom
WILMETTE – It is harvest season at the Wilmette community gardens, which are bountiful with ripening tomatoes, cornstalks reaching high and peas ready for picking. The Wilmette Park District provides...
View Article‘You Are Not Invincible:’ Drive Sober
LAKE BLUFF – The Lake Bluff Police Department is ramping up its traffic enforcement efforts through Labor Day as part of the national crackdown on drunk driving. The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over...
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One Winnetka Gaining Support
The space that’s under discussion for the One Winnetka mixed-use development WINNETKA – A majority of Winnetka Plan Commissioners appear to support the latest One Winnetka plan proposed for the...
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Glenbrook South counting on Canning
Tyler Canning, seen her during preseason drills, figures to be one of the defensive difference makers for the Titans, who open the season against Barrington on Friday night. Photography by George...
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GBN’s Milutinovic is pumped for the season
Glenbrook North two-way lineman Dimitrije Milutinovic, seen here in action last fall, figures to be in the middle of the action in Friday night’s season opener against Wheeling. Photography by Joel...
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Janeck ready to face(off) next challenge
Recent Lake Forest High School grad and Maryland recruit Wesley Janeck (left), seen here against New Trier last season, made two All-America teams last spring. Photography by Joel Lerner The text...
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Meeks oars his heart out for US team
Lake Forest’s Finn Meeks (far right) helped the US U23 rowing team to a silver medal at the World Championships earlier summer. Submitted photo The Finn Meeks Story has to start at Phillips Exeter...
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LF author goes extra yard to complete book
Editor’s Note: Jon J. Kerr, a Lake Forest High School graduate, has written his first book. He didn’t do it overnight — as he explains here. I didn’t think it would take five years to write a book....
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HP’s Volpentesta specializes in versatility
Cristian Volpentesta (No. 3), seen here teaming up with Gareth Reingold on a tackle last season in the state playoffs, figures to be all over the field, when the Highland Park High School football...
View ArticleSusan Ruth Gevirtz
WILMETTE—Susan Ruth Gevirtz, née Goldberg, of Wilmette, passed away at the age of 68 on August 27, 2015. A funeral services will be held on 11am, Monday, at Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, 111...
View ArticleMan Found Sleeping at Railroad Tracks
NORTHBROOK—A man was found sleeping in a vehicle at the railroad tracks at Shermer and Meadow, close to 2am on August 27. Police placed the man–38-year-old Anthony Fallico–under arrest for improper...
View Article31-Year-Old Accused of Public Urination
NORTHBROOK—A complainant called police regarding a man urinating the park by the playground on the 1800 block of Walters Avenue, the afternoon of August 25. Responding officers identified the...
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‘Sherlock Holmes’ to Debut in …
Image of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ poster from Wikipedia NORTHBROOK – The recently resurfaced 1916 Sherlock Holmes film will make its first Chicago-area appearance on September 9 at the Northbrook Public...
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Visit Is a Hit Right Off the Bat
David Sweet, editor in chief of The North Shore Weekend “This is our Fort Knox,” says Anne Jewell as we walk into a narrow room less than an hour’s drive from the nation’s gold repository. Rather than...
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Cocktails at the Lasker Caddyshack
Lasker club house; photo courtesy of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society LAKE FOREST – Join the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society on Friday, September 11 at 5 p.m. for wine and...
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