Barbara Sherlock

Booming Randall Road may get busier now that the Plan Commission has recommended approving annexation and conditional-use requests for a Sam's Club warehouse store proposed at Randall and Mill Street....

Students have crossed over to the sunny side of the street as reflected in their scores in the latest Illinois Goal Assessment Program tests. Other than a slight drop in...

Voters in the Batavia Library District will be asked in November to approve an $8.8 million bond issue for a new library and agree to a tax-rate increase of 6...

The Riverwalk temporarily lost in a game of hide-and-seek initiated last week by Batavia's electrical company. An underground electrical vault containing the cables that supply electricity to the Government Center...

In recent days, Dennis Kintop, the Batavia Riverwalk project's volunteer general contractor, has had a few surprises, not all of them pleasant. The fact that concrete can harden underwater surprised...

A Batavia City Council committee is considering whether the city should amend its animal-control ordinance to require leashes on cats. "There is a risk to this, and I'm not making...

In an effort to drain potential flooding problems, the Batavia City Council has approved a $40,000 contract to excavate and refill a portion of the Crestview recharge-detention basin. The basin...

The Batavia Park District is seeking to amend a jury decision on the price of a 15.3-acre site that the district wants for a new park next to Batavia Middle...

With aldermen disagreeing over whether an annexation agreement with the developer of the proposed Prairie Trail South subdivision should require a fence along part of the property, much less dictate...

Standing under the leaves of apple trees, the wings of honey bees pulsing inside their small cupped hands, several dozen children learned why Aurora University trumpets its Young Scholars summer...