Lynn Van Matre

"See that?" Dr. Joe Olsen asked the small girl in the dentist's chair as he held up her dental X-rays and pointed at the problem area. "That's your `owie tooth.'...

Bargain-hunters can bid on 150 late-model cars, trucks and public works vehicles at the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference's auction of surplus motor equipment, scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday in...

The eighth annual DuPage River Sweep netted 8 tons of trash from DuPage County streams, according to statistics recently released by the Conservation Foundation, a sponsor of the annual event....

Roy Book Binder Polk City Ramble (Rounder) Book Binder, a Florida-based folk circuit veteran who counts country blues greats Pink Anderson and the Rev. Gary Davis among his mentors, has...

There's no easy way to say "trick or treat" in French, but that didn't stop 30 5th-grade exchange students from a Paris suburb from donning Halloween costumes and going door...

Business owners and employees can learn how to minimize waste and cut costs at a free national seminar to be held June 17 via satellite downlink at Argonne National Laboratory...

Two area waste water-treatment facilities and two DuPage County trails advocates have been named recipients of the Conservation Foundation's annual waterways and trails awards. The conservation group's DuPage River Clean...

The Morton Arboretum is best known for its majestic oaks, elms and plant collections from around the world, but the Sterling Morton Library on the arboretum grounds also is home...

Roscoe Holcomb The High Lonesome Sound (Smithsonian Folkways) The term "high lonesome sound" today is associated with countless traditional bluegrass groups, but the evocative phrase was coined more than three...

The final phase of a citizen-based campaign to clean up the Upper DuPage River watershed is under way. Earlier this year, a watershed coalition team representing landowners, businesses, environmental groups...