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New Trier budgeted spending drops in 2018 with end of Winnetka campus project

May 10, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

New Trier High School District 203 now has a budget for 2017-2018, one in which revenue is expected to drop by about 1.5 percent compared with the 2016-2017 year –...

Work finally winding down at New Trier’s Winnetka campus

May 10, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

Chris Johnson, assistant superintendent for finance and operations at New Trier High School District 203, says he's gotten used to seeing construction around the district's Winnetka campus over the past...

Mark Levine of Skokie shows computers to prospect buyers Diana Zavade, center, and her son Rares, 9, both of Wilmette, during the Wilmette Park District's community garage sale on Sept. 16, 2017.

Community garage sale turns one person’s trash into another’s treasure

May 10, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

To get an idea of how successful the Wilmette Park District's Sept. 16 community garage sale was, you just have to hear one of organizer Lindsay Thomas's anecdotes. "One woman...

A driver sustained minor injuries after accidentally crashing her sports utility vehicle into a corner of the The Grand Food Center in Glencoe on Friday afternoon, according to village officials. No other injuries were reported.

Driver sustains minor injuries after SUV strikes store

May 11, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

A Glencoe public safety official said an elderly motorist was trying to park her sports utility vehicle when she inadvertently crashed into the corner of a grocery store Friday afternoon....

Shout Out: Val Lober

May 10, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

Val Lober has been the Wilmette Park District's artistic director of dance for a little more than a year, and is passionate about bringing dance to a recreational setting. Q:...

Park board to consider term limits

May 10, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

Wilmette Park Board commissioners will discuss the possibility of initiating term limits for board seats at their October meeting, after board member John Olvany asked that members at least consider...

Asha Ackerman looks at the flag she is about to plant on the Winnetka Village Green on Sunday. She and other volunteers placed 2,977 flags, one for each victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, on the green. They waved in remembrance until sundown on Sept. 11.

Flags wave in annual Sept. 11 remembrance

May 10, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

"You realize how special this is when you're there and the morning sun is shining on all those flags. It's hauntingly beautiful." Winnetka Village President Chris Rintz used those words...

Loyola Academy's renovation plans have been a subject of contention in west Wilmette as neighbors signaled their opposition in 2016 to the school's plan to build two new parking lots.

Loyola Academy renovation plan advances to Wilmette village board

May 10, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

Loyola Academy won approval for the first phase of its campus renovation plan from Wilmette's zoning board of appeals last week in a meeting that lasted until almost midnight. The...

Christopher Xamplas, a vector biologist with the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District, takes a scoop of standing rain water looking for mosquito larvae or any signs of mosquitos breeding at Crow Island Woods in Winnetka on Friday, July 14, 2017. The Village Board agreed recently to pay consultant Strand Associates up to $107,800 to prepare underground stormwater storage facility designs for Crow Island Woods and other locations.

Winnetka moving on early phases of stormwater management plan

May 10, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

Winnetka is taking steps toward accomplishing the early phases of a stormwater management plan for two of its flood-prone areas. The Village Board agreed recently to pay consultant Strand Associates...

Shout Out: Aren Emrikian, kid chess champion

May 10, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

Aren Emrikian won't celebrate his 8th birthday until January, but the son of Wilmette couple Ani and Armen Emrikian can already claim a monumental accomplishment. Last month, he won the...

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