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David Fodor leads an April 23 rehearsal at Wilmette Junior High School. The Wilmette Community Band, which Fodor conducts, is getting ready for a joint performance with students from the Wilmette Junior High School Band on April 30.

Music melds students, community band for April 30 concert

May 10, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." – Aaron Copland When David Fodor took to the conductor's podium for the...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jane Smiley talks about her book "Some Luck" and other works during the final "One Book, Everbody Reads" event at Wilmette Junior High School on April 26.

Author, audience connect as ‘One Book, Everybody Reads’ winds down

May 10, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

More than 300 fans who took part in Wilmette Public Library's "One Book, Everybody Reads" program not only got the chance April 26 to hear the author of that one...

Wilmette firefighters and village officials will likely wait until September to hear an arbitrator's ruling on the two sides' stalled contract negotiations.

Wilmette, firefighters go to arbitration over two-tier pay

May 10, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

It will probably be Labor Day before Wilmette's union-represented firefighters and village officials learn how an arbitrator has ruled in a contract dispute between the two parties, Assistant Village Manager...

Olivia Tussing, 7, enjoys a coffee flavored ice cream cone at Homer's Ice Cream in Wilmette in 2009.

Homer’s Ice Cream suit alleges mismanagement, divides family

May 10, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

Homer's Ice Cream, the 80-year-old Wilmette ice cream emporium that has become a North Shore landmark, is now the subject of a family feud in Cook County Circuit Court. Todd...

The viewing room on the lower level of the new welcome center at Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette.

Baha’i welcome center aims to connect neighborhood, temple

May 12, 2019 at 8:38 p.m.

Scott Conrad and Chris Vodden return repeatedly to the concepts of community when they talk about the new Baha'i House of Worship welcome center in Wilmette. The new space is...

Kenilworth Park District voters approved an April 7 referendum increasing the district's tax rate. The hike will provide $162,000 more in tax receipts, beginning in August 2016, enough for the district to buy the Kenilworth Assembly Hall and operate it.

Referendum nod gives park district green light on Assembly Hall

May 10, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

Kenilworth Park District officials are eyeing the purchase of Kenilworth Assembly Hall, after a successful appeal to voters on April 7. That won't happen until after August of next year,...

New Wilmette plant name proves oil, water can mix

May 10, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

It's a name every Tom, Dick, and Harry can thank their lucky stars, or their parents, that they were never saddled with: Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. That's the name of the...

Wilmette plan commission deadlocks on 611 Green Bay Road project

May 10, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.

While some Wilmette officials have enthusiastically endorsed the much-touted luxury apartment-retail complex M&R Development wants to build at the former 611 Green Bay Road property, not everyone shares that enthusiasm....

At the April 13 Wilmette Park Board meeting, the first held after the April 7 vote in which residents defeated the board's proposed bond referendums, referendum foes continued to chastize the board for supporting the referendum.

Rhetoric still heated at post-referendum Wilmette Park Board meeting

May 10, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.

The battle against the Wilmette Park District Board's proposed bond referendums was won April 7 when both were soundly defeated at the polls. But anti-referendum foes attended the board's March...

Wilmette boy gets help from Burn Bright for Devin fundraiser

May 10, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.

Devin Dixit of Wilmette is, in the words of Harper School principal Sue Kick, "very lively, very energetic, enthusiastic, creative, kind and funny." Devin is also in a health fight...

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