Sugar Grove may soon reap the benefits of the federal government’s stimulus package. The Illinois Department of Transportation’s (IDOT) list of proposed highway improvement projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes $1.4 million to resurface portions of Route 47 and the Route 56 ramp.

An adult and a juvenile turned themselves in after being charged with firing shots into a moving vehicle in unincorporated Maple Park. No one in the car was injured.

A seven-person committee of social workers and administrators from Kaneland schools presented its findings on the policies and procedures in place to handle harassment and bullying to the School Board at its meeting on Monday.

Disorderly conduct; Excessive speed; DUI

The village of Elburn will apply for another grant for a program that monitors local tobacco sales in the village to make sure businesses comply with the law.

Village awards roadway lighting contract; Village awards water main bid; Update on Mallard Point study; Village approves easement for middle school water main; Village adopts updated codes

Hundreds of entertainers, politicians, volunteers and community supporters will be on hand for the Association for Individual Development’s 10th annual telethon, held Saturday, Feb. 28, at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove.

This is getting to be familiar territory for Kaneland’s Grant Alef.

Kaneland girls track began its indoor track season on Saturday at Wheaton-Warrenville South.

The 2007 Kaneland grad always gets a look from Kaneland baseball faithful, but as the weather turns, the mentions are getting national.

A letter from the family of Blake Allen Denton.

There are nine candidates campaigning for four positions (one mayor and three trustees), a man and a woman facing off in the mayoral race, and seven candidates vying for three trustee positions.

As you do your spring cleaning, the Sugar Grove Library Friends would like you to think of the environment, while also helping the library with donations of current hardcover and paperback books to sell in their 2009 April Used Book Sale.

The National Education Association’s “Read Across America” is a celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March 2.

The Kaneville Lunch Bunch menu for Tuesday, March 3, 2009 will be fried chicken, salad, rolls, dessert and beverage. Please call (630) 557-2220 by Saturday, Feb. 28, for reservations. Cost is $5.

A ceramic piece made by Waubonsee Community College art student Lara Elijahof of Elburn has been accepted, along with three other works, in the 2009 Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference Juried Art Exhibition. Two of the works received special honors.