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Hampshire Village Clerk Linda Vasquez has served the village for the past 15 years.

Hampshire honors Vasquez during Municipal Clerks Week

May 10, 2019 at 4:04 a.m.

The Village of Hampshire is celebrating Municipal Clerks Week, May 1-7, while acknowledging the 15 years that Hampshire Village Clerk Linda Vasquez has served the community. "I started working as...

Lords Park Elementary School students with Squatchy Berger, the GoNoodle mascot.

Exercise milestone celebrated at Lords Park Elementary

May 9, 2019 at 2:30 p.m.

In order to offer brain breaks to elementary school students and get the wiggles out, AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Women & Children's Hospital, Hoffman Estates, has sponsored the GoNoodle interactive...

A crowd watches the Central High School jazz band perform at the Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire.

Music, tours highlight District 301 event at Wright-designed farmhouse

May 9, 2019 at 2:30 p.m.

Architecture and music fans gathered on Sunday afternoon at a farmstead along Rohrsen Road in Hampshire in order to tour a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed farmhouse and raise money for the...

Old school to be razed by fall

May 10, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

Despite pleas to save the historic Plato Center Grade School building, the Central Community Unit School District 301 board is taking steps to have it demolished in the fall. The...

Central Community Unit School District 301 Superintendent Todd Stirn, left, and the school board honor Rusty Lemcke, who is retiring.

District 301 transportation head retiring

May 10, 2019 at 4:04 a.m.

Rusty Lemcke, retiring director of transportation for Central Community Unit School District 301, was thanked recently for his 21 years of service, which included many nights and early mornings. Superintendent...

Dr. Warren Anderson, Judson choir director, standing, and Rev. Huntley Brown, international concert pianist.

Judson University concert raises funds for Jamaica trip

May 9, 2019 at 2:30 p.m.

A recent concert at First Baptist Church of Elgin helped to raise funds for the Judson University Choir's missionary tour to Jamaica that will run May 10-19. The choir traveled...

Hampshire resident Eric Luhman holds the fossilized femur of a dinosaur.

Kids dig dinosaurs at Hampshire library

May 9, 2019 at 2:30 p.m.

By examining the teeth and bones of creatures that existed millions of years ago, kids and their parents at Ella Johnson Memorial Public Library in Hampshire could imagine what dinosaurs...

Fees to increase under new Hampshire budget

May 10, 2019 at 4:02 a.m.

Hampshire has passed a balanced budget for the fiscal year that begins May 1, and it contains an increase in water and sewer rates and a capital improvement fee for...

A view of all the choirs together singing "Papa Oom Mow Mow."

District 301 students show off their artistic talents

May 9, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

Families and friends gathered at Prairie Knolls Middle School in Elgin on Saturday to enjoy both artwork and musical performances by the students of six Central Community Unit School District...

Gary D. Wright Elementary School student Mia Campion, 8, shows off her pink balloon animal from Faithway Baptist Church.

‘Every vendor space was filled’ at Hampshire expo

May 9, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

The 2016 Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce Home & Business Expo at Gary D. Wright Elementary School this weekend offered a variety of activities and the chance to visit the...

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