Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield donates books to Waukegan school
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Hundreds attend New Trier board meeting, most in support of upcoming civil rights seminar day
The president of the New Trier Township High School District 203 board had a simple message for the hundreds of people who showed up at Monday night's meeting for intense...
Hundreds attend meeting on upcoming New Trier civil rights seminar day
Hundreds of New Trier High School parents, school district residents and others packed the school's Cornog Auditorium Monday night for a school board meeting where the main topic of discussion...
Junior high students exercise their political muscles with march
The assemblage of Wilmette Junior High School students who gathered Saturday in front of Wilmette Village Hall was small, but their chants against President Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos, his...
Wilmette considers ban on pavement sealants containing coal tar
Wilmette could enact a ban on the sale and use of coal tar sealants, materials made of a coal byproduct and used to seal cracks in pavement, but which some...
Board OKs preschool, but eyes Linden Square traffic problems
Wilmette trustees on Tuesday granted a preschool owner's zoning request for parking relief near the Linden Square storefront in which she plans to open a preschool, but not before acknowledging...
Holocaust novel “Mischling” is 2017 One Book, Everybody Reads selection
A novel about Jewish twins who suffer under the deadly ministrations of Josef Mengele, the Nazi "Angel of Death," but who remain determined to live, is the Wilmette Public Library's...
Park board approves architect contract for Gillson beach house project
After a series of contract amendments Wilmette Park District commissioners felt would give them more oversight on the district's Gillson Park beach house replacement project, the park board on Monday...
Village, Park District to meet on fertilizer ban
Representatives of the Winnetka Park District plan to meet with their village counterparts this week to review Winnetka's proposed ban on phosphorus-containing fertilizers, according to District Executive Director Robert Smith....
New Trier defends planned civil rights program despite parents’ criticism of liberal bias
New Trier Township High School District 203 has rejected calls to change or postpone a planned civil rights seminar day later this month, saying it's too late to adjust the...