Hinckley News

DeKALB – Local legislators say they're going back to Springfield this week – again – with a lot of frustration and few firm ideas about where budget negotiations will lead.

Sarah Weirich of Hinckley, a member of the Hinckley-Big Rock FFA chapter, won the State Veterinary Medicine Award at the State FFA Proficiency Awards Day, held April 4 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Weirich is the daughter of Mike and JoAnne Weirich of Hinckley.

It was a spur-of-the-moment decision Saturday morning for John Rey. He had heard that Gov.

"The Elburn Lions Club has announced its June 2009 raffle winners. Steve and Jan Hauser of Hinckley won $100. Winners of the $50 raffle were Tom Mahan of Elburn, Sandy Gould of Maple Park, Mark Hougas of Sugar Grove and Joh Healy of Mt.

Local blacksmith Chris Hubbard will be among the demonstrators plying their trades during Uncle Joe's Olde Thyme Country Faire.

Rainey's daughter attends the Children's Learning Center. SYCAMORE – Andrea Blank just wants to finish what she's started.

As someone who has long studied and written about historic DeKalb County architecture, I was pleased to learn early last month that the William Miller log cabin would be finding a new home just a few miles from where it was originally built.

Now that a rewrite of the state's Freedom of Information Act has joined a stack of bills awaiting signature on the governor's desk, local officials are weighing in on the effects it will have if it becomes law.

Emma Friedland, 5, leans her head on her teacher, Diane Guhl, during class Friday at The Growing Place in DeKalb.

JEFF KRAGE/FOR THE DAILY-CHRONICLE Hinckley graduate Briana Rompf looks up briefly while talking with Sarah Rooney and Brittany Riforgiate in the library before the start of Sunday's graduation ceremonies.

Communities throughout the area will have Memorial Day observances today. * Aurora -- Parade at noon from River and Benton streets.

State Representative Bob Pritchard leads the Illinois State Senior Spelling Bee on Friday at the Senior Services Center in DeKalb.

The Indian Creek girls soccer regional seeds were announce Thursday. The pairings will be released on Friday.

Standing in their kitchen displaying one of the many silver platters they have accumulated over the years, this one for the Welsh Roadster Pony Stake Championship from the state fair, are Don and Betty Swenson.

Kayla Meyer of Hinckley and Justin R. Wassmann of Waterman are the recipients of the 2009 “At The Heart Of A Growing America” scholarship from 1st Farm Credit Services.

The incident is under investigation.?? a April 3 at 10:01 p.m., four students in Henninger Hall were judicially referred for illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor.

Jimmie R. Bear, 39, of the 500 block of Coster Place in Hinckley, was arrested at 10:55 p.m. March 24 for driving under the influence of alcohol, fleeing and eluding police, and speeding.

A capital budget approved last week by the Illinois General Assembly reportedly included about $3.5 million for street repairs in parts of DeKalb County.

Ellen Olsen of DeKalb participates Thursday in a rehearsal for Spirit Wind, the Immanuel Lutheran Church band, at the church in DeKalb.

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois' ban on horse slaughtering has been upheld by state lawmakers, but the fight over the issue continues.