Hampshire News

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.

Barb Briscoe of Hampshire walks through the new Main Street Park in downtown Genoa on Friday.

In two short weeks, Mac the horse went from roaming the streets of Pingree Grove to ruling the roost at a Hampshire farm that is now his new home.

Maybe it should have been called "Quincy: A Ghost Story." When the Arcada Theatre in St.

I wrote last time about confusion over whether Hampshire has a Mill Street or a Mill Avenue, and a South Street or a South Avenue.

Mac made fast friends with the other horses and donkeys on her farm, many of which are rescues.

Hampshire homecoming king Ryan Burke and queen Sam Anderson hug Friday after they were introduced at the Whip Purs pep rally at Hampshire High School.

The Hampshire Elementary School Walkathon was scrapped Thursday afternoon due to rain.

As Veterans Day on Nov. 11 draws near, Hampshire and Sycamore are preparing to celebrate the area's military, past and present.

Could a traffic roundabout be the cure for the dangerous traffic conditions where Big Timber Road crosses Route 20? After an early-morning crash Tuesday sent three Hampshire High School students to a hospital and caused minor injuries to three other people, Village President Jeff Magnussen revealed that the Illinois Department of Transportation has ...

Six people -- including three Hampshire High School students -- were injured in an early morning accident Tuesday at the intersection of Route 20 and Big Timber Road.

The field is mowed with Roseman reel-type mower to obtain scissor cut. Rick Pump Sr.

From now on, the special events that focus outside attention on Burlington -- the annual Fall Fest, the July 3 fireworks, Christmas in Burlington -- will be coordinated by a committee separate from the village board, Village President Kathy Loos said as the board conducted a post-mortem of this year's Fall Fest recently.

Three local teenagers are accused of twice robbing an Elgin Dunkin' Donuts, making off with $2,400. But there's a twist: One of the teens was working at the store during the second stickup Monday morning and arranged for the other two suspects to rob it while he was on duty, police said.