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If this is Naperville, we just have to object
Decades come and decades go, but when apartment buildings or other multi-family uses are proposed for Naperville, the hue and cry is raised.
More taxes are such a drag on puffers
It’s easy when more tax money is needed to merely add a buck onto the price of a package of cigarettes, but is it the right thing to do?
Century Walk offers chance to be a part of local history
Century Walk projects don’t usually take from one year to the middle of the next to complete, but the mural “Naperville Loves a Parade” is an exception. Located on both walls of the alley in downtown Naperville between the GAP and Talbot’s on the west …
What if teacher pension costs come home?
Naperville Sun Viewpoint columnist Tim West writes “It’s probably just coincidence, but right after property tax bills came out, the Board of Education of School District 203 turned its eagle eye to the $62,060 that the district had to pay extra into the Teachers Retirement System because of teachers whose salaries exceeded the six percent pay increases for one of the years at the end of a teacher’s career that are used to calculate pension income.”
Are these intersections all that dangerous?
Sun Viewpoint columnist Tim West writes “One of the advantages of having lived in Naperville for more than 40 years is that I’ve got to see the intersection of Ogden Avenue and Route 59 be very gradually transformed from a sleepy, rural intersection at the corner of farmland and farmland, to the fifth worst intersection for traffic crashes in the six-county area.”
Avoid the mailbox, it’s property tax bill time
Oh tidings of angst and rage, it’s property tax bill time in DuPage.
Book on 1946 train wreck coming soon
Anyone who has lived here for a while and paid much attention at all to Naperville’s history has heard of what became the worst tragedy in the history of Naperville and of the Burlington Railroad, a collision on April 25, 1946, between two passenger trains that were traveling from Union Station at speeds of 80 to 85 miles per hour, one behind that other by just minutes.
It’s time for our subdivision to take the ward
An important milestone in my wife and my lives in Naperville passed last week unnoticed, or at least unnoticed until I was trying to figure out something to write for today’s column and thought “Wasn’t it 25 years ago this week when ...?”
Driving a Lincoln to raise funds for charity
Test driving vehicles to raise money for charity has become increasingly popular over the past years. Several local dealers have had them and they are to all be commended for doing so. But Wednesday’s drive at Fair Oaks Ford-Lincoln, 2055 W. Ogden Ave., in Naperville was special, at least to me, for several reasons.
BookHunters is new independent bookstore
Just when everyone seemingly is opining that the printed word is going the way of the dodo bird, another bookstore opens in Naperville.
Give me a cheeseburger and a traffic jam
The only problem I had while watching the nearly three-hour public hearing on the proposed McDonald’s restaurant at Washington and Hillside on the Citgo site is that I kept having this urge to go out and buy a quarter pounder with cheese and an order of fries.
Visiting author paints Anderson’s a bit ‘bleu’
Author Christopher Moore visits Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville to promote his new novel, “Sacre Bleu,” which centers around the death of Vincent Van Gogh.
NCC scholarship honors Mary Lou Cowlishaw
North Central College now has a new scholarship named after the late Naperville community leader Mary Lou Cowlishaw.
Retiring Naperville police chief looks to the future
Naperville Police Chief David Dial, retiring after 22 years at the helm of our police department and a total of 45 in law enforcement, spoke to the Rotary Club of Naperville on April 12. His topics included his future plans, homeland security, and heroin use among Naperville’s young people.
My ward is a whole lot better than your ward
The proposed boundaries of Naperville’s Second Ward, pardon me, make that district, were the subject, April 10. of one of several meetings the city staff has been holding to explain the coming ward system to residents.