Kane County—Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez will award one scholarship to a Kane County resident in the amount of $500.

The 1979 Girls Basketball and the the 1977 Girls Volleyball team were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Normal, ILL.—Fifty-one Illinois firms were recognized for excellence in engineering before an audience of over 300 engineers, clients and government officials at an Awards Luncheon held Feb. 3 at The Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Normal, Ill.

ELBURN—Kaneland graduate Alli Rowland looks back on a day when she was in choir class and told her teacher that she didn’t feel well. She knew the symptoms and realized she was going into a seizure.

At the end of January, we devoted this space to echoing the sentiments of many residents and leaders in the area by publicly urging Sugar Grove officials to return to the negotiating table to find a resolution for the years’ long search for a way to end the drainage problems in the Mallard Point and Rolling Oaks subdivisions.

ELBURN—The Elburn Village Board voted to increase base water and sewer rates at its meeting on Tuesday.

Dennis Paige appeared at the Town and Country Library on Feb. 20. He talked about Native Americans and how they lived and survived.

James Lim was the winner of the sixth annual Mr. Kaneland competition held on Feb. 17 at the high school auditorium.

World-renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (right), author of the best-selling book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” toured Aurora University’s Phillips Library on Feb. 7 to view a traveling display on Abraham Lincoln.

The Kaneville Lunch Bunch got together on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at noon at the community center.

KANELAND—For a squad that has gone largely untested for the position it’s in, Kaneland girls basketball showed it belongs in a mid-February basketball setting.

KANELAND—When finally having made his college commitment choice, Kaneland senior football standout Quinn Buschbacher must have felt like he had an entire open field after a bubble screen.

INDIANAPOLIS—In a continued emphasis on improving sportsmanship, the “soft red” has been eliminated in high school soccer.

Nancy M. Baum, 74, of Aurora, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. She was born on June 11, 1937, in Dog Fork, Ken., daughter of the late Raleigh and Nellie Marie Herbert

Arnold “Arnie” F. Leifheit, 94, of Sugar Grove, passed from this life to eternal life on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at his son’s home in Batavia, surrounded by the love of his family.

The Hinckley Lions Club has held their annual auction for 38 years.