Carpentersville News

The Hawthorn District 73 board of education on Friday approved the contract of James Tohme as the new principal for Hawthorn School of Dual Language.

More than 100 of these creative musicians gathered at the Niles Senior Center May 22 for the 10th annual kitchen band jamboree.

Shana R. Zwart, 23, 1001 Evans St., No. 10, was arrested Thursday at 4041 Veterans Drive for retail theft.

Carpentersville officials have finally received a blueprint filled with ideas on how to make Carpenter Park a better place to recreate.

A recent expansion project at GAT Guns has given the facility not only more room but some national bragging rights.

A man wanted by the sheriff's offices in McHenry, Kane and Cook counties has been arrested, according to a news release.

A construction worker snakes an acetylene torch hose through dirt and concrete last week during bridge construction along Route 31 North of Big Timber Road in Elgin.

Driving past Raceway Woods here on any given day, at least a dozen cars can be spotted in the parking lot, and several mountain bikers can be found perched on bikes, ready for a ride.

Army First Lt. Ronald Wolter's name appears on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C., which honors veterans killed in combat during the war.

On Tuesday night, the village board lifted a ban on the insects, which allows residents to raise them in their backyards as a hobby.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence discussed Indiana's lead in the school choice movement at a conference in Washington DC this week.

CARPENTERSVILLE – A state commission's recent decision to grant individual appeal hearings for all Fox Valley school districts affected by a proposed virtual charter school was in response to a misunderstanding, said the commission's chairman.

Jacki Bakker, of Carpentersville, wanted to learn more about Islam, which is her daughter-in-law's religion and now her son's. Lyn Humbrack, a member of Elgin's First Congregational Church, has heard plenty of stereotypes about Muslims on TV but wanted to know the facts.

I would think every taxpayer who doesn't work for the government would be outraged over the obscene $95,640 per year pension the ex-Carpentersville fire chief who retired under a cloud of suspicion is receiving.

Michael Griffin was awarded the Army Commendation Medal of Valor during a ceremony at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Elgin on Thursday.

CARPENTERSVILLE – The nonprofit behind a controversial proposed virtual charter school filed its final appeals in the past week to a state commission, after 18 school districts in the Fox Valley rejected the proposal.

The Kane County Forest Preserve District has been awarded a $400,000 grant to develop Brunner Family Forest Preserve north of Carpentersville.

Retired Army Sgt. Michael Griffin will be honored with the Army Commendation Medal of Valor Thursday, nine years after he was shot four times in Iraq and provided key information about the enemy's whereabouts while he fought for his own life.

District 300 Superintendent Michael Bregy has traveled twice to Springfield in recent weeks to push for a one-year moratorium on establishing new virtual charter schools.

Anette Bliss said she was thrilled when she was announced as the winner of the Kane County Educator of the Year award.