Boulder Hill News

The new year will bring with it higher water rates for Village of Montgomery water customers.

Oswego and Montgomery residents should prepare to pay a bit more for their water service in the new year.

Two people were killed and another injured in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Route 30 just west of Goodwin Drive in Oswego Tuesday at 6:32 p.m. Nicholas J. Miller, 18, of the 900 block of Mason Avenue, Aurora, a passenger in one of the vehicles, was pronounced dead at the accident scene, Oswego Police Det.

Residents of Montgomery and the unincorporated Boulder Hill Subdivision will likely have to pay more for their water service effective Jan.

The Oswego Public Library District should be commended for its continuing efforts to secure state per capita grants to pay for the purchase of new books and other materials for the agency's libraries in Montgomery and Oswego.

You probably haven't noticed it, but this is National Newspaper Week. It's an annual observance established by the National Newspaper Association intended to call attention to the importance of newspapers and a free press in our democratic society.

Not too many years ago, the Oswego School District served Oswego, a large portion of Montgomery, the unincorporated subdivision of Boulder Hill and farm children spread over the district's 68 square miles.

Kerri McNicholas walked around her Montgomery home last month and stared longingly at each family portrait on the wall.

The Village of Montgomery cleared another hurdle in its continuing effort to secure the development of a Metra Park-n-Ride facility in the village's downtown area when the village board voted last week to adopt a newly completed transit oriented development plan.

David Quinones, 40, of the 1700 block of Felton Street in Aurora, was charged with felony drunken driving and driving with a revoked license after a traffic stop at Alden and Bierman Roads in Boulder Hill at 1:08 a.m. Friday, according to Kendall County sheriff's deputies.

The many ecology-friendly features of the new headquarters being constructed at 1200 E. Indian Trail Road, Aurora, along with an interview of a patrol officer who spent two tours of duty in Iraq with the Marine Corps Reserves, highlight the September edition of "Street Beat," the Aurora Police Department's monthly television program.

Two new administrators have been hired by the Oswego School District and are already on the job.

Oswego School District officials are hoping to receive approval to hire several new teachers with funds from the federal 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Individuals with Disabilities Education Act .

The patterned rug in shades of brown, the metal chairs with burgundy cushions set up theater style, the mirrored-walls and the podium at the front could have been in any hotel banquet room across America.

The patterned rug in shades of brown, the metal chairs with burgundy cushions set up theater style, the mirrored-walls and the podium at the front could have been in any hotel banquet room across America.

Oswego School District Board members received a progress report last week on several construction projects now underway at district schools in Oswego, Aurora, Montgomery and the unincorporated Boulder Hill Subdivision.

Compiled from articles published in the Ledger-Sentinel, 1980-present; Fox Valley Sentinel, 1974-1980; Oswego Ledger, 1949-1980; and Kendall County Record, 1864-present and historical information provided by the Village of Montgomery.

The $28 billion capital bill passed last week by the Illinois General Assembly includes $81.2 million in funding for two major highway projects in Oswego and Montgomery along with $75 million for a proposed Oswego Metra station.