Column: Loyola University Museum of Art loans diverse creches to Aurora church
An open house on Sunday, Dec. 15, at New England Congregational will feature 40 non-Anglo/European Nativity scenes.
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Column: Mother frustrated with preschool expulsions looking for help from recent law and state resources
Naperville mom frustrated with hurdles she's facing with her 3-year-old identical twins.
Longtime ‘irreplaceable’ reporter Steve Lord retires after nearly 47 years at The Beacon-News
With almost 47 years under his belt covering Aurora and other Fox Valley communities, the 69-year-old journalist is unofficially the newspaper’s longest-serving editorial employee.
Column: Aurora couple’s snow village lighting up one last holiday season
The display covers an area 30 feet by 24 feet and includes bustling neighborhoods and downtowns, rural wooded areas, ski resorts, honky-tonks, fast food joints, ballrooms, churches, schools, even a...
Column: Despite small membership, Aurora Cosmopolitan Club continues to make big impact
The group only has a handful of registered members these days, along with another half-dozen “friends” of the club, but what they manage to accomplish is more than impressive.
Column: Dollar store experience yields valuable holiday message
An act of kindness once a day a wonderful plan for a better world.
Column: After breaking hip, former Butterball hotline lady from Aurora to be stuck in Turkey for Turkey Day
For more than two decades, Phyllis Kramer was not just a wise and calm voice on the other end of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, the Aurora woman became a recognized...
Column: Now in its third year, Christkindlmarket has found its Aurora home
No doubt you, too, have noticed the rush to Christmas. With Thanksgiving as late in November as possible, people are pushing into the yuletide holiday with a fervor like never...
Column: Community doubles ‘dignity and hope’ for homeless with Hesed House expansion in Aurora
The opening of the Hesed House expansion shelter is doubling down on the community’s commitment to offer hope and dignity for the homeless by doubling up on the beds it...
Column: A Fox Valley family shattered twice by grief holds strong through the decades
Two brothers honor their sister killed in an accident in 1971 in North Aurora.