Geneva News

Kane County-area conservatives are sending email blasts to help gather 150,000 signatures to support the Boy Scout ban on gays in the days prior to an upcoming vote by the BSA's Executive Board.

Someone broke four windows at Heartland Elementary School, 3300 Heartland Drive, sometime between 11 p.m. May 7 and 6 a.m. May 8, Geneva Police Department reports said.

Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of articles on Geneva business and development, based on an interview with 2011 Wood Award winner Joe Stanton-Geneva businessman, landlord and developer.

In just one short month, downtown Geneva will be transformed into a must stop for affordable and local summer fun - Geneva Chamber of Commerce's 64 th Annual Swedish Days Festival presented by Cadence Health.

Kathie Michael, of Batavia, participated Saturday in a clean-up along the Fox River in Batavia sponsored by the Friends of the Fox River.

GENEVA – Geneva School District 304 will hold a special meeting at 8:30 a.m. May 30 at the central office, 227 N. Fourth St., Geneva.

Students at Western Elementary School in Geneva, including first-grader Annaliese Seidel, plant their Edible Schoolyard Friday.

But it's good enough to help a Geneva family climb out of a financial hole that was exacerbated by the untimely death last year of their 14-year-old daughter, Savannah.

With the Powerball jackpot back up to $550 million , here's a story you might find inspiring: For some time now, Richard Cerezo, of Geneva, Illinois, has stored 11 old Lotto tickets in a cookie jar for safe keeping.

A Geneva man who says he had a mountain of bills and was facing eviction is now a multimillionaire thanks to a lottery ticket he bought months ago in Aurora and only recently found in a cookie jar in his kitchen.

This just in: Two Bostons pet store in Naperville is going to open in Geneva! They're not saying where, but the when is in June.

A garbage truck slammed into a 2002 Saturn pullling out of a driveway on Fabyan Parkway early Wednesday morning, killing the 23-year-old driver and sending the garbage-truck driver to Delnor Hospital, Geneva police reports said.

A North Aurora woman was killed Wednesday morning when the car she was driving was hit by a garbage truck.

About 6:30 a.m. a woman, believed to be 22 or 23 years old, pulled out from a private drive onto Fabyan Parkway near its intersection with Nagel Boulevard, about a quarter-mile west of Raddant Road, and was then hit by a large dump truck, according to police at the scene.

When the final bell sounds at the end of the May 31 school day, expect hugs, kisses and maybe a few tears, as Geneva public schools say goodbye to an accumulated 500-plus years of experience.

GENEVA – Retired Kane County Sheriff's Lt. Donald Kramer announced Tuesday that he will make another bid for Kane County Sheriff in 2014.

Like Angelina Jolie, they are beautiful women. Young mothers. Friends who live near each other in their Plainfield homes.

Dave Ginsberg of Geneva finished first with a time of 18:49 at The Hope For Haitians 5K on Saturday in Geneva.

GENEVA – Kane County's government soon could obtain a new tool to help the county collect some of the unpaid money it is owed.

GENEVA – If you've got talent, the Geneva's Got Talent competition still has audition openings for its Swedish Days performances.