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• Guest Editorial: Principal Appreciation Week is Oct. 22-26

  Do you want to tell a school principal that you appreciate them? If so,...

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• Guest Editorial: Newspapers are community icons

  ongratulations. By holding this newspaper in your hands , you are participating...

  • Posted 234 days ago
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• Editorial: Time for a change

  As of Monday, Oct. 1, the Elburn Herald/Kaneland Publications Inc. will have a new...

  • Posted 240 days ago
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• Editorial: Learn ways to help fund a college education

  College tuition costs continue to remain high, and in many cases, continue to climb,...

  • Posted 248 days ago
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• Editorial: Inflexible AYP standards cast unfair spotlight on Kaneland, other school districts

  It was during Secretariat’s legendary performance in the 1973 Belmont Stakes that a reporter...

  • Posted 254 days ago
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• Editorial: Farewell to the 2012 summer festival season

  The close of Labor Day weekend each year signals the start of many good...

  • Posted 261 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: Start of school requires extra precautions while driving

  With the start of school comes the need to remind drivers to be aware...

  • Posted 269 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: Farmers markets offer more than food

  Farmers markets are popping up in small towns across rural America. Increasingly, farmers and...

  • Posted 276 days ago
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• Editorial: We hope to see you at Elburn Days this weekend

  The annual Elburn Days festival, a three-day festival and series of community events that...

  • Posted 283 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: Elburn Station negotiations a ‘good chess game’

  For those of us who appreciate a good chess game, a beauty has been...

  • Posted 289 days ago
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• Editorial: Examples of ‘community’ abound

  This part of the summer—when our local communities are on display to their residents,...

  • Posted 297 days ago
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• Editorial: Enjoy the Corn Boil

  Every year, countless man hours from dozens of people representing numerous organizations culminate in...

  • Posted 304 days ago
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• Editorial: A change in leadership; an affirmation of our foundational principles

  Anytime there is a change in leadership inside an organization, questions soon follow: How...

  • Posted 310 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: Warmer weather equals more calls to the Poison Center

  The Illinois Poison Center is a non-profit health service that provides the people of...

  • Posted 318 days ago
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• Editorial: Time for the Kaneland municipalities to get on the same page

  The Kaneland School Board and the Elburn Village Board last week completed an Intergovernmental...

  • Posted 325 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: SG police responds to rumonrs of child abduction attempt

  by Investigator John Sizer, Sugar Grove Police Department Numerous emails are being circulated around the...

  • Posted 332 days ago
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• Editorial: Taking a moment to reflect

  On June 13 through June 15, newspapers from throughout the state of Illinois gathered...

  • Posted 339 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: This Father’s Day, teach your kids to manage finances

  As parents, we hope we're doing a good job raising our children—teaching them right...

  • Posted 353 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: A letter to the Kaneland School District community

  As we approach the end of another very successful school year, I wanted to...

  • Posted 360 days ago
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• Editorial: Sugar Grove opened Pandora’s Box, and here are the results

  The proposed Shodeen development in Elburn, referred to as Elburn Station, hit a roadblock...

  • Posted 374 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: State launches ‘Start Seeing Motorcycles’ campaign

  With motorcycle riding season officially under way, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Illinois...

  • Posted 381 days ago
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• Editorial: ‘Be excellent to each other’

  For years following the 9/11 tragedy, high-level government officials continued to remind the public...

  • Posted 388 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: Trying to make a difference every day

  When I retired in February of 2010, I thought about one of my favorite...

  • Posted 395 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: Building on the values of No Child Left Behind

  The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Yet the law...

  • Posted 402 days ago
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• Guest Editorial: Equal Pay Day

  There's no doubt that women have made great strides the past 50 years. "Help wanted—male/Help...

  • Posted 409 days ago
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• Editorial: The downtown deadline approaches

  If nothing changes, on April 15 at 12:01 a.m., the parking lot in downtown...

  • Posted 416 days ago
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• Guest editorial: Rest in peace?

  State agency encourages citizens to protect historic grave markers Spring has sprung and that often...

  • Posted 423 days ago
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• Editorial: Time to look in the mirror, Mr. Valente

  Last week, we published a story in which a Kaneland School Board discussion turned...

  • Posted 430 days ago
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• Sunshine Week: Accountability requires openness

  The timing was apropos when Attorney General Lisa Madigan issued a binding opinion regarding...

  • Posted 437 days ago
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• Editorial: What does it mean to be a hometown newspaper?

  It means many things, but the overriding aspect of the term is “service.” As...

  • Posted 444 days ago
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• Editorial: An appeal for communication, time

  If nothing changes, the parking lot in downtown Elburn at the corner of Main...

  • Posted 450 days ago
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• Editorial: Let’s follow the Mallard Point example

  At the end of January, we devoted this space to echoing the sentiments of...

  • Posted 457 days ago
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