Hampshire News

As the Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce prepares to hold its annual holiday gala Friday night, 2010 President Katie Mathson said her two priorities for next year will be to provide more benefits from being a chamber member and to increase the number of members in a time when many businesses are tightening belts.

We explained recently how Hampshire officials in the 1960s or 1970s got very logical and organized about naming streets, even if the village has pretty much ignored that system except in the original grid-shaped "old village." For example, all east-west thoroughfares were to be called avenues, and all north-south ones were to be called streets.

Some things we didn't have space to mention in Sunday's Storyteller feature about the Conro family farm near Pingree Grove and Hampshire: * Alan Conro says the design on Oberweis Dairy's milk bottles is based on cows who lived on the farm, which is on both sides of the neck between Routes 72 and 20 in Starks Corners.

New Hampshire business leaders will attend a noon press conference Tuesday, Dec.

W. R. Meadows, a building materials supplier based in Hampshire, Il., has announced the formation of a new subsidiary, Blue Ridge Fiberboard, to resume the manufacturing of Celotex branded- fiberboard products.

The leftover Thanksgiving turkey barely will have cooled and Black Friday shoppers will be nabbing the last of the day's deals.

Most people in this rootless age can say they have moved at least five times in their lifetime.

To the Editor: On Nov. 9, a fire destroyed a duplex in Sycamore. Sycamore firefighters, along with service personnel from Burlington, Cortland, DeKalb, Elburn, Genoa-Kingston, Hampshire, Malta and Maple Park quickly arrived to safely contain the blaze.

Firefighters begin to clear the scene following a fire in a home at 7525 S. Route 23 in Marengo on Thursday morning.

When Village President Jeff Magnussen and Village Administrator Eric Palm presented their annual state-of-the-village report Wednesday to members of Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce, Magnussen warned they would be talking about "the good, the bad and the ugly." The good, apparently, involved the improvements to streets and utilities the village ...

Veterans salute the colors during the playing of taps Wednesday during a Veterans Day program at Hampshire High School.

A housing development planned near the border of Hampshire and Burlington in unincorporated Kane County will take the concept of green living beyond energy efficient light bulbs and rain barrels.

A new program is seeking volunteers to help prevent some seniors and disabled persons from becoming forgotten members of the community.

Lt. Col. Michael Fenzel of the U.S. Army will speak this morning as part of Hampshire High School's Veterans Day celebrations.

When the idea was approved by the Hampshire and Burlington village boards last month, it sounded pretty alarmist.

If you consider Bruce Ream Memorial Park to be a little "blah," you are not alone.

At the village board's request, the Illinois Department of Transportation has agreed study whether it would be allowable to lower the speed limits on Route 72 in front of Tuscany Woods subdivision, from 55 mph down to 45.

I couldn't believe my eyeballs, but there it was in the Daily Herald movie ads buried in fine print: "No commercial ads shown before feature." What? The Catlow Theater in Barrington doesn't show commercials before movies as other suburban movie houses do? This I had to check out.

As this village moves toward passing responsibility for planning its special events onto a committee of volunteers from outside the village board, Village President Kathy Loos introduced the leader of that committee to other board members at their last meeting.

Two years ago, when Hampshire High School first was invited to join the Fox Valley Conference, the school still shared a campus with Hampshire Middle School on State Street.