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New Trier remembers Jan Borja
Relationships. Community. Compassion. Those words were used again and again by friends and relatives of Janet Borja at today’s memorial service to explain why she was so special. It was fitting the service was held at New Trier Township High School in Northfield as the …
Snow makes its way back to the area Friday
Feeling a chill in the air? Snow will be back as soon as Friday when lake effect snow could hit the city and Northwest Indiana with six inches.
Pizza, semester-exam cramming a tradition at Wilmette Public Library
When first-semester examinations loomed for Wilmette area New Trier High School students earlier this month, they had a choice to make. They could cram at home, in their bedroom or study, and perhaps panic by themselves at how much they had forgotten to remember. Or …
Catholic cemeteries offer to bury 300 bodies stacked at morgue
The Archdiocese of Chicago is offering to pay for up to 300 burials for the bodies being held at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Officials postpone latest Wilmette hotel hearing
Village officials agreed Tuesday to postpone for at least a month a Wilmette Plan Commission hearing on the proposed White Lodging hotel development being opposed by neighbors in a west Wilmette neighborhood. The hearing — to review site-plan changes in the planned unit development White …
‘Gang Book’ spotlights threats to the suburbs
For more than 40 years, street gangs and the illegal drug sales they control have been major drivers of property crime in the suburbs. For most people, though, gangs remain a shadowy phenomenon, visible only in the occasional newspaper or TV clip and usually in …
Wilmette Police Department up for re-accreditation
Sometime in March, Wilmette Police Department officials should learn whether the department has once again won accreditation from an international law enforcement agency that sets professionalism standards for its members. Retaining accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies will allow the department …
New this week on video
Shakespeare turns out to have been a bit of a poser in the historical drama “Anonymous” and Santa Claus turns out to be a bit of a stoner in “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.”
Johannes Gray takes it ‘From the Top’
Johannes Gray loves the sound of the cello. The Wilmette 14-year-old, a freshman at New Trier High School, describes its tone as deep and rich. It’s a tone he has worked to create — with notable success — since he was a toddler. Now people …
Organizers deem McKenzie benefit a huge success
Members of McKenzie Elementary School’s Parent Teacher Association are celebrating having raised as much as $40,000 at its “Going Places” benefit, held Feb. 4 at the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton in Skokie.
Money from the gala, organized once every two years by the PTA, will …
Crystal Cave in Wilmette transforms itself in move to Glenview
After almost 44 years, artist, craftsman and businessman Josef Puehringer is bidding a bittersweet good-bye to downtown Wilmette. Puehringer, who owns The Crystal Cave store at 1141 Central Ave., has long presided over a well-loved local source for hand-crafted crystal art pieces, glass and crystal …
Wilmette Junior High celebrates new source of sound and vision
Music makers and audiophiles the world over know what it means to say, “We can fix it in the mix.” Now, thanks to a $15,000 grant from the District 39 Educational Foundation, students at Wilmette Junior High School will have the chance to fix their …
Wilmette and Kenilworth police blotter for Jan. 30 through Feb. 6, 2012
Wilmette police reported making two arrests on drunk-driving charges during the period between Jan. 30 and Feb. 6.
Winnetka Children’s Hour presents “House Haunters!”
The Winnetka Children’s Hour is pleased to present its original hour-long comedy musical, “House Haunters!”, performed by local children ages 5-14 on Thursday, Feb. 9 and Friday, February 10 at 7 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 11 at 10:30 a.m. at Matz Hall, Winnetka Community House, …
Evanston panel backs cultural arts, Piven Theatre Workshop improvement plan
The nationally recognized Piven Theatre Workshop would play a leading role in the revitalization of the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, occupying renovated space and a state-of-the-art theater in the building under a plan that received backing Monday from a city committee. Members of the City …
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk’s brain swelling subsides; doctors reattach skull section
Doctors on Tuesday reattached a 4-inch by 8-inch piece of U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk’s skull that was removed to ease swelling in his brain following his Jan. 21 stroke. “The swelling in Senator Kirk’s brain has subsided and this morning we were able to reattach …
