Pingree Grove News

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.

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

Who doesn't love pigging out on Thanksgiving Day? If you're a local runner, you can enjoy a guilt-free Thanksgiving dinner by running in Algonquin's annual Turkey Trot 5K Fun Run and Walk.

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.

More abstract nature pics from Pingree Grove Forest Preserve near Pingree Grove and Gilberts, Illinois.

Three Rutland Township partygoers were arrested over the weekend after a dispute over car keys turned violent, police said Tuesday.

While Shelly Nguyen of Pingree Grove was waiting in line to get her 2-year-old daughter Alana vaccinated for the H1N1 flu Monday evening at Larkin High School in Elgin, her two oldest children were home sick, both running temperatures.

Time to go crazy with all of the wonderful costumes - I did a little research and it appears Balloon Boy, the Gosselins, Bernie Madoff, Michael Jackson and characters from "Where the Wild Things Are," will be among the top sellers this time around.

A young woman injured in a crash near Pingree Grove Monday has died from her injuries.

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.

Sometimes, it pays to have a lot of separate governmental bodies. The government of Kane County - which handles things such as courts, sheriff's patrols, tax collecting and elections - is wallowing in red ink and talking about cutbacks.

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

Bird watchers soon will have a chance to catch sight of great blue herons, sandhill cranes and endangered yellow-headed blackbirds when the Pingree Grove Forest Preserve opens Saturday for the first time as an official forest preserve.

Time is running out for Cambridge Lakes Charter School teachers trying to unionize.

Conventional wisdom holds that the most common traffic offense in these parts is a gliding "California stop" - which isn't really a stop at all - while making a right turn on red.

Pingree Grove sponsored yet another charity run Saturday - the Pingree Grove Harvest Classic - in which people ran to feed the hungry.

As it continues to expand its offerings to extend all the way from preschool to graduate degrees, the Cambridge Lakes Learning Center here is recruiting its first class of students working toward a bachelor's degree in business leadership.

The Dundee Township Public Library invites residents to check out more than books as it reopens the building after its first-ever renovation.

Parents, students and taxpayers can find out just about anything they want to know about Community Unit School District 300 from the district's www.d300.org Web site.

Rules limiting paid sick days are less important than making sure a pandemic of H1N1 flu doesn't empty the fire station and the police station, Fire Chief Curt Kramer told the village board Thursday.