ELBURN—Coming to a resolution on the Elburn Station development next year is high on the priority list for a number of Village Board members.

Elburn Lions Club rallies to bridge gaps in literacy
ELBURN—Immersed in communities since 1917, the Lions Club International Foundation is the world’s largest community service organization with an emphasis on supporting the blind and visually impaired.

Students from Creative Beginnings Preschool (right) at the Elburn and Countryside Community Center sang Christmas songs for their parents and other guests on Dec. 19 in the gymnasium.

KANELAND—The Elburn Scholarship Fund will once again award grants for studies at the college level. All applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2013.

ELBURN—Proposed Shodeen development Elburn Station will be a topic for discussion at the Elburn Village Board’s first meeting in 2013.

Nate Biery plays guitar with instructor/owner Ben Westfall. The two performed “The First Noel,” “Simple Gifts” and “The Big Corral” during the Holiday Recital at Da Capo Music.

ELBURN—The Elburn Village Board on Dec. 3 approved a tentative tax levy of $824,000 for the 2012 tax year—an increase of 22.59 percent over the amount extended from the previous year.

Five-month-old Dylan Jump of DeKalb doesn’t know what to make of Santa at the Town and
Country Public Library during the Elburn Christmas Stroll on Friday.

ELBURN—Jeff Walter on Monday was awarded the 2012 President’s Diversity Award by Blue Cross Blue Shield for his role in veteran hiring and veterans’ issues.

ELBURN—Candidates for the Elburn 2013 Consolidated Election may file their nominating petitions with the Village of Elburn Clerk, Diane D. McQuilkin, at Village Hall, 301 E. North St., Elburn …

Elburn to participate in Conservation Foundation’s project
ELBURN—Conservation Foundation’s Dan Lobbs attended Elburn’s Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday to obtain village trustee support for the Foundation’s proposed stormwater management project.

The 7th Annual Blackberry Creek Turkey Bowl brought out neighbors both young and old for a little touch football before the big Thanksgiving dinner later in the day.

Bans motorized vehicles on bike paths
ELBURN—The Elburn Village Board on Monday approved an ordinance to increase fines and penalties for parking and other traffic violations.

ELBURN—Two Elburn residents were among the five suspects recently arrested following a three-month-long investigation into cannabis trafficking that yielded a seizure of 598 pounds of cannabis.

ELBURN—Each year, Health Care Services Corporation honors employees who exemplify the spirit, principles and actions of diversity and inclusion at work and in the communities it serves.

Mary, 3, Joseph, 2 and Loretta Rigitano “help” their parents clean up leaves on a blustery day recently in the front of their home in Elburn.