This year, children will have the chance to have their own Fun Fest parade. Fun Fest has added a bike parade for kids in the afternoon before the big parade.

Four bands with local roots will perform on the Fun Fest stage on Saturday and Sunday.

When you enter the cozy diner on Main Street in Maple Park, at the site of the former Sanders barbershop, you enter a world of car and hot rod memorabilia.

There were hot dogs, sweet corn, Sno-Cones, inflatables, a 50/50 raffle and the night concluded with fireworks during the Maple Park Lions Club’s “Share” community celebration on Aug. 17 at the Maple Park Fire Station.

Maple Park—The Maple Park Village Board held a special meeting on Tuesday to introduce the public to their proposed implementation of a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District.

MAPLE PARK—Maple Park firefighters and 21 other fire departments spent most of Tuesday putting out a barn fire at the Fabrizius farm, located on the 4N800 block of Meredith Road.

MAPLE PARK—Nine different fire departments came together for ethanol fire training on Saturday.

MAPLE PARK—Imagine a tree house with a slide at your workplace, a rock climbing wall, and foosball. It’s a work-hard, play-hard environment that Red Frog Events Founder Joe Reynolds hopes will foster creativity, innovation and empowerment.

MAPLE PARK—Farmers markets are flourishing around the country as more and more consumers are heeding the advice of health experts to eat foods that are locally grown. This advice is nothing new to the Wiltse family of Maple Park, who have been growing and selling produce since 1914.

Bike parades took place in Elburn, Maple Park and Sugar Grove on the Fourth of July.

SUGAR GROVE—During the spring 2011 semester, Waubonsee Community College purchased 17 pieces of student-created artwork to display around its campuses.

MAPLE PARK—Theo Mirkut, a Maple Park resident and junior at the Illinois Math and Science Academy, was recently selected by the National Rifle Association (NRA) as one of 45 students in the country who will partake in its National Youth Education Summit (YES) in Washington, D.C. in late June.

MAPLE PARK—There is a rich history behind the stretch of Lincoln Highway that travels through Maple Park, and that history is currently represented on an interpretive mural that was installed in the heart of downtown Maple Park on May 24.

Maple Park—During a special Maple Park Village Board meeting on Tuesday, Elizabeth Peerboom was appointed to the position of village clerk.

Maple Park resident first female to earn auto body degree from WCC
SUGAR GROVE—Alley Domar of Maple Park didn’t know much about Waubonsee Community College’s automotive technology and automotive body repair programs, but chose to enroll in both programs simply because of her interest in vehicles while growing up.

Maple Park—The Maple Park Village Board said farewell to two trustees on Tuesday, and after a long process, appointed two new trustees to fill the vacancies.