DeKALB | Not every child has to be born in a hospital. An expo brought attention to natural living and holistic approaches to child birth Saturday at the House Cafe. The free event, ‘Birth Matters: A Whole Life Event', was open to the public and consisted...
DeKALB | Voter turnout was lower than expected at the local elections Tuesday. "We were anticipating a 20 percent voter turnout," said DeKalb County Clerk John Acardo. "Now it looks to be 20 percent at best." The low voter turnout could be a result of...
DeKALB | In 2010, the DeKalb Public Library saw 332,639 people walk through its doors. On average, each month 27,720 people entered the library at 309 Oak St. Public relations coordinator Katherine Keyes said public libraries are important to a community...
SYCAMORE | The Sycamore City Council voted to approve a contract for the drilling and testing of Sycamore Well 10 Monday night. The engineering contract was awarded to Municipal Well and Pump, 1212 Storbeck Drive in Waupun, Wisc. Several members of the...
Students and citizens have the opportunity to have their voice heard today through local elections. Polls in DeKalb County open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Several positions are up for election in DeKalb and Sycamore including aldermen, park district...
Police are investigating two individual reports of shots being fired over the weekend in downtown DeKalb and in the neighborhood of Ridge and Rushmoore drives. DeKalb Police Lt. Gary Spangler said no one was injured in either case. Spangler said both...
The following was taken directly from area police and fire department records, or from DeKalb County court records. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. At 11:40 p.m. Thursday, DeKalb Police in the 900 block of...
DeKALB | A recent study deemed 2,300 bridges in Illinois "structurally deficient." According to nationalbridges.com, 14 bridges within a 50 mile radius of DeKalb are deemed "structurally deficient" or "functionally obsolete." The Bethany Road bridge in...
Greg Taylor: Candidate for Sycamore 3rd Ward alderman (INCUMBENT) Experience: Taylor served as alderman for the last four years. Education: Attended Ohio State University Why running for alderman: Taylor said it's very important to him that there be someone...
Sheela Goral: Candidate for Kishwaukee College District 523 trustee Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration from University of Phoenix Experience: Goral said it’s important to clearly understand what the responsibilities are for board...
Monica O’Leary: Candidate for DeKalb 7th Ward alderwoman (CHALLENGER) Education: Attended NIU Experience: O’Leary has been a resident of DeKalb for 27 years. She served as minister at New Hope Baptist Church; owner of Monica’s Auto Repair, 1211...
Ronald Naylor: Candidate for DeKalb 5th Ward alderman (incumbent) EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Bradley University in 1965 EXPERIENCE: Naylor said he has lived in DeKalb for over 45 years. He has raised a family here and has...
