07/15/11 Review: Here's a guaranteed formula for staging a successful comedy: Cast Eric Mather, wind him up like a child's toy, and just let him go. Rating: ***
07/14/11 180 middle school and high school students from five differnt states provided service to four different locations in the Tri-Cities area this week. Hosted by First Baptist Church in Geneva and sponsored by Lead222, the students have learned about leadership in local communities.
07/13/11 Authorities say a Terre Haute police officer died from a gunshot wound to the head while serving a search warrant. The Virgo County Coroner says Officer Brent Long also received another shot the head but only one of the bullets was fatal.
07/12/11 Two juveniles have been arrested and another is at large after one fell through the ceiling of the Aurora, Indiana Big Lots Tuesday morning.
07/12/11 The Shrine All-Star football week kicked off Tuesday with media day and the first practices held at Eureka College. Among 70 participating players, 15 are from Jounal Star-area schools.
07/08/11 The East Aurora Cooperative Market, Inc., was selected to receive a $10,000 Seed Grant from Food Co-op Initiative, a non-profit foundation that provides resources and support for start-ups.
07/08/11 The East Aurora Street Festival & Sidewalk Sale on Saturday, July 30 will provide an opportunity for young entrepreneurs to register for the event and sell their own wares on the street at the Operation Kids space. Some young operators have already registered for the event, and spaces are filling up quickly with a few spaces still available.
07/08/11 Some Marilla officials are questioning an asbestos removal project that closed town offices for over a week and added $23,000 in costs to current reconstruction efforts at the building.
07/04/11 The Town of Elma will once again hold a fireworks display on July 4. The show will begin at dusk on Monday at the EMW Boys & Girls Club on Girdle Road. Visitors are asked to park at the Iroquois campus across the street.
07/02/11 It started in 2003 as the Elma Relay for Life. Volunteers that year, led by chairperson Lori Redlinski of Elma, hoped to raise $25,000 for the American Cancer Society. Instead, they raised $85,000.
07/02/11 Penny Murphy, who became "the bat lady" to thousands of Denver-area schoolchildren, died May 17. She was 62.
07/02/11 With the ink barely dry on a town law prohibiting gas drilling by hydraulic fracturing, the Wales Town Board has set its sights on a proposal by National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation to upgrade and increase capacity of a compressor station on Reiter Road in Wales near the Aurora town line. As part of its proposed Northern Access Project, National Fuel wants to build a 4,470-horsepower compressor ...
07/02/11 Residents along Woodcrest Drive are having trouble getting the type of road repairs they want outside their pricey homes and are requesting the Aurora Town Board find a way to fully resurface the roadway.
07/02/11 As she took her oath Friday, Circuit Judge Cheryle (Wiedmeier) Gering was presented with her judicial robe and gavel.
06/24/11 Just a few short weeks before Tom Backof embarked on a 4,000-mile cross-country bicycle ride, he could barely lift his Jamis Aurora.
06/23/11 Rhoda E. Kittelsen, who taught English, drama and speech at Lafayette High School in Buffalo for 30 years before retiring in 2001, died June 15 in Millard Fillmore Hospital. She was 74.
06/23/11 Funding from a grant will help the Town of Aurora update existing facilities and build new baseball diamonds at the Gleed Avenue sports field.
06/21/11 Sikich Becomes Part of an Elite Group of Epicor Value-Added Resellers, Delivering Integrated End-to-End Enterprise Solutions to the Midmarket
06/20/11 Meet Chiquita the sassy wolf pup, Aurora the clingy orangutan, and plenty more cuddly newcomers at zoos across the country.
06/18/11 Drivers looking to give their car a good cleaning will soon be able to make a pit stop at a NASCAR-themed car wash in Aurora.Steve Timmer, owner of Spotless Express Car Wash at 20606 Cicero Ave., and Utah-based 1903 Car Wash Co., which does business as NASCAR Car Wash, announced an agreement recently that includes building a new car wash in Matteson and converting car washes in Aurora ... | 
