Hampshire News

HAMPSHIRE – The strong country gale outside Hampshire High School soon could yield big savings for District 300.

To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest within the Kane County state's attorney's office, an Illinois appellate prosecutor has been assigned to the criminal case against William C. Chesbrough, the local lawyer charged last month with bilking two area residents out of $140,000, Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti said.

"The salt is ready. The plows are ready. There's not much more left to do," said Carpentersville Village Manager Craig Anderson.

With three uncompleted home developments having been taken over by banks, village officials and the subdivisions' residents may be worried about making sure that enough money is available to finish the projects' streets, parks and ponds.

If you've been pining away for a new holiday look but can't afford it, the answer is just around the corner at Capelli Salon in Hampshire.

Wear all black, and you can be Zorro. Wear Charger red and blue, and you can be Superman or Supergirl.

Capt. Trevor Herrmann of the Hampshire Fire Protection District said the victims had to be extricated from the wrecked vehicles but that their injuries appeared to be non-life-threatening. Details were unavailable Monday afternoon from the village police department.

Jon Collins knew that once the water hit the fire, the room would get too-thick-to-see with smoke.

The idea of having an armed police officer at Hampshire High School may seem a bit heavy-handed to some residents, even worrisome to others, but the partnership between local police departments and Community Unit School District 300 goes back at least a decade.

As the Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce prepares to hold its annual holiday gala Friday night, 2010 President Katie Mathson said her two priorities for next year will be to provide more benefits from being a chamber member and to increase the number of members in a time when many businesses are tightening belts.

We explained recently how Hampshire officials in the 1960s or 1970s got very logical and organized about naming streets, even if the village has pretty much ignored that system except in the original grid-shaped "old village." For example, all east-west thoroughfares were to be called avenues, and all north-south ones were to be called streets.

Some things we didn't have space to mention in Sunday's Storyteller feature about the Conro family farm near Pingree Grove and Hampshire: * Alan Conro says the design on Oberweis Dairy's milk bottles is based on cows who lived on the farm, which is on both sides of the neck between Routes 72 and 20 in Starks Corners.

New Hampshire business leaders will attend a noon press conference Tuesday, Dec.

W. R. Meadows, a building materials supplier based in Hampshire, Il., has announced the formation of a new subsidiary, Blue Ridge Fiberboard, to resume the manufacturing of Celotex branded- fiberboard products.

The leftover Thanksgiving turkey barely will have cooled and Black Friday shoppers will be nabbing the last of the day's deals.

Most people in this rootless age can say they have moved at least five times in their lifetime.

To the Editor: On Nov. 9, a fire destroyed a duplex in Sycamore. Sycamore firefighters, along with service personnel from Burlington, Cortland, DeKalb, Elburn, Genoa-Kingston, Hampshire, Malta and Maple Park quickly arrived to safely contain the blaze.

Firefighters begin to clear the scene following a fire in a home at 7525 S. Route 23 in Marengo on Thursday morning.

When Village President Jeff Magnussen and Village Administrator Eric Palm presented their annual state-of-the-village report Wednesday to members of Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce, Magnussen warned they would be talking about "the good, the bad and the ugly." The good, apparently, involved the improvements to streets and utilities the village ...

Veterans salute the colors during the playing of taps Wednesday during a Veterans Day program at Hampshire High School.