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Schools in Illinois are no longer mandated to teach cursive handwriting so children whose schools don't offer it will need to learn it from their parents or some other source.

Mego: If you want your kids to sign their names, you’ll have to teach them

June 6, 2018 at 6:28 a.m.

This Monday, Jan. 23, is the birthday of John Hancock, extremely wealthy merchant, patriot, first governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, president of the Second Continental Congress and the first...

Mego: Housing amenities to benefit seniors something we can all get behind

June 6, 2018 at 8:18 a.m.

I'm angry with myself. As regular readers might know, I've been having some mobility problems for the past year. Although I'm improving, I still have a way to go. Hopefully,...

Mego: Computers no substitute for actual experience and experimentation

June 6, 2018 at 10:23 a.m.

As the school year resumes in 2017, the effort to provide leased computers to every student continues in both District 203 and District 204. These Chromebooks run a version of...

Mego: Take ‘Auld Lang Syne’ literally this New Year and reconnect with old acquaintances

June 8, 2018 at 12:36 p.m.

After the Fourth of July, the most celebrated single day of the year is Hogmanay. You may not know what that is, but it's just the Scottish word for the...

Regardless of how the characters in a Nativity manger scene are portrayed, the message of Christmas remains the same, columnist Bill Mego says.

Mego: Manger scene, regardless of who’s included and how they look, always means Christmas

June 8, 2018 at 1:50 p.m.

Shortly before I was born, my parents bought a manger scene. I think the figures are made of some sort of moulded plaster of Paris, the kind of stuff that...

Mego: Community Unity Walk wasn’t about Christmas but embodies what the holiday’s all about

June 8, 2018 at 4:10 p.m.

There are lots of things people do that embody the true meaning of Christmas. Caroling is one, but you don't see much of that anymore. When I was young, I...

The Naperville City Council is considering an ordinance change that would increase the age to purchase, possess or use tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Mego: Changing tobacco age limit a no-brainer in city with so many ‘what if’ rules

June 8, 2018 at 8:23 p.m.

When my family first moved to Naperville, we built a house. We didn't do it the way most people do it today, with a general contractor, subcontractors and specialty tradesmen;...

The annual Tuba Christmas concert will be held at 11 a.m. Dec. 3 at the corner of Washington Street and Jefferson Avenue and at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 3 at Fox Valley Mall.

Mego: Official start of the holidays not Black Friday but Naperville’s Tuba Christmas

June 8, 2018 at 10:24 p.m.

For many, the Christmas season begins when they force sales people to miss Thanksgiving dinner by shopping on what should be a family holiday. For me, it begins when the...

Mego: City burning leaves rather than leaving them for Mother Nature just absurd

June 9, 2018 at 1:00 a.m.

If the last two weeks feel like they've been scripted by Lewis Carroll or Samuel Beckett, you will find it fitting that Sunday is national Absurdity Day. In fact, I...

Cook County Sheriff's Office investigators remove puppies being kept in a suspected puppy mill on Chicago's South Side.

Mego: Dog torture a way of life for puppy mills; here’s how you stop it

June 9, 2018 at 2:37 a.m.

Even the worst criminals, men and women who have done unspeakable things to innocent people and ruined the lives and the futures of entire families, get an hour a day...

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