District 99 Approves $83.6 Million Budget
By Andrea Earnest | Bugle Staff aearnest@buglenewspapers.com @DownersGrvBugle At its Sept. 19 meeting, the District 99 Board of Education approved its 2016-17 budget. District 99 Controller Mark...
View ArticleSave a Life Tour Makes Stop At Lockport Township High School
Program Designed To Warn Teens About Dangers Of Distracted Driving Bugle Staff The Save A Life Tour – a national nonprofit program that educates students on the dangers of distracted driving – was...
View ArticleStreet Renamed After Early Downers Grove Pioneer
By Andrea Earnest | Bugle Staff aearnest@buglenewspapers.com @DownersGrvBugle At the Sept. 20 meeting of the Downers Grove Village Council, Mayor Martin Tully read a resolution designating a portion of...
View ArticleTaylor’s Take: Playoff percentages
By Scott Taylor | @Taylor_Sports It is hard to imagine that we are in the second half of the high school football season, but we are. A few teams have been eliminated from playoff contention and others...
View ArticleNiles Library OKs Alcohol at Special Events
By Igor Studenkov | Bugle Staff nweditor@buglenewspapers.com @NilesILNews The Niles Public Library Board of Trustees voted unanimously to allow alcohol to be sold and distributed at special events....
View ArticlePlainfield Police to Get Added Protection
By Marney Simon | Enterprise Staff news@enterprisepublications.com @PlainfieldNews First responders with the Plainfield Police Department are getting some added protection for potential dangerous...
View ArticleNiles Family Services Campaign Focuses on Suicide Prevention
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and Niles Family Services is working to promote suicide prevention and raise awareness. The month-long campaign will highlight the importance...
View ArticlePlainfield’s Rise From The Ashes
By Marney Simon | Enterprise Staff news@enterprisepublications.com @PlainfieldNews It’s no secret that the local ash tree population has dwindled. Following massive infestations of the pesky emerald...
View ArticlePark Ridge Residents Divided on Courtland Parking Lot Proposal
By Igor Studenkov | Bugle Staff istudenkov@buglenewspapers.com @BugleNewspapers The Park Ridge City Council did not vote on a zoning application that would turn a currently vacant lot near the...
View ArticleObituary: Martin “Marty” Keniley
Martin “Marty” Keniley, age 57, died at home Sept. 20, 2016, surrounded by family. He was born May 29, 1959. Marty was preceded in death by his mother, Carole (nee Stites) Keniley, father Maurice...
View ArticlePark Ridge Police Investigate Armed Robbery
Detectives from the Park Ridge Police Department are investigating an armed robbery that occurred last week at a business in the 900 block of North Northwest Highway. Officers responded to the business...
View ArticleStudent Struck by SUV While Riding Bike Near Plainfield North H.S.
Plainfield police, along with members of the Plainfield Fire Protection District, responded to a report of a major traffic accident with injuries near Plainfield North High School on Sept. 22. The...
View ArticleExpert Brings Dementia, Aging Process Discussion to Summit of Uptown in Park...
Dementia and the aging process will be the focus of a program at Summit of Uptown Oct. 6. Ruth Friedman, PhD, MSN, RN, will be the featured speaker. She has focused her career on helping older adults...
View ArticleSept. 29 Sports roundup
Downers South swimming beat Leyden 137-43. Winning for the Mustangs were the 200-yard medley relay of Alyssa Reinholz, Makaila Scheiblein, Jillian Scott and Paige Vondrasek (1:57.37), Beth Vetter in...
View ArticleWeek 6 IHSA football scoreboard
Plainfield South 17 Plainfield East 3 Plainfield North 41 Joliet Central 0 Romeoville 29 Minooka 26 Bolingbrook 27 Lockport 22 Leyden 14 Downers South 0 Benet 56 Marian 7 Wilmington 21 Lisle 14...
View ArticlePlainfield South rides its defense to win over Plainfield East
By Scott Taylor | @Taylor_Sports The Plainfield South defense is regaining its force from last year. For the second straight week it held its opponent out of the end zone in a 17-3 win over Plainfield...
View ArticleDespite loss, Porters still in the hunt
By Mark Gregory @Hear_The_Beard After a 4-1 start to the season, the Lockport football team was looking to earn its fifth win of the season, become playoff eligible as well as do something it has not...
View ArticleBenet top ranked team in Class 2A Wheaton St. Francis Sectional
By Mark Gregory @Hear_The_Beard The Benet Academy boys soccer team dropped its second game of the season this year. But in the more than 10 matches since that loss – the Redwings have not lost a match....
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Bolingbrook one step closer to locking up 25th-straight playoff berth
By Mark Gregory @Hear_The_Beard Anthony Vespo The last time the Bolingbrook football team failed to qualify for the IHSA playoffs was the 1991-92 season when the Raiders posted a 5-4 record and fell...
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Wildcats to face Cougars in playoffs
By Mark Gregory Plainfield Central will enter the IHSA Class 4A playoffs as the No. 15 seed in the Bolingbrook Sectional and compete with No. 18 Plainfield South in the Geneva Regional, coach Kevin...
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