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Male ebony jewelwing (Sheryl DeVore/News-Sun)

Column: Early summer dragons and damsels: jewelwings and whitetails

June 25, 2020 at 2:10 p.m.

Every June, an emerald green insect with jet black wings flits along slow-moving streams and creeks in Lake County. I never noticed it until several years ago when someone pointed...

Shakespeare goes virtual via CLC, University of Wisconsin theater programs

June 17, 2020 at 10:42 a.m.

Shakespeare and Zoom. Who would have thought? The College of Lake County and University of Wisconsin-Parkside theater instructors, that's who. Having had to cancel live shows — including a musical...

‘The Super Bowl of 4-H’: Lake County Fair staging virtual competitions in lieu of in-person event

June 11, 2020 at 4:24 p.m.

Even though the 92nd-annual Lake County Fair has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, youths who have been raising pigs, goats, cows and other livestock will still be able...

Bearded irises bloom in June in Lake County.

It’s time to celebrate irises, summer solstice

June 11, 2020 at 9:38 a.m.

June is a time to stop and smell the bubble-gum like fragrance of a bearded iris, or walk along a wetland searching for the native blue flag iris. Irises, which...

Superdawg in Wheeling features two giant hot dog people on the roof. The "dawgs" are listed in RoadsideAmerica.com.

Roadside America salutes Lake County oddities

June 9, 2020 at 12:29 p.m.

The hawk in a nest at Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve is likely the biggest one most folks will ever see. It's actually a walk-through exhibit about the life of a...

Jack and Pat Nowak of Grayslake approach one of about 20 bluebird nest boxes at the Brae Loch Golf Club in Grayslake. (Sheryl DeVore / Lake County News-Sun)

Volunteers monitor man-made boxes to help native songbirds

June 7, 2020 at 1:19 a.m.

On a partly sunny June day, Jack Nowak opens a bluebird box at Brae Loch Golf Club in Grayslake. He expects to see five eggs as he did a week...

‘We will continue to adapt’: Lake County court proceedings going online during pandemic

May 29, 2020 at 9:58 a.m.

A number of Lake County court proceedings are going to be held online via Zoom, starting Monday, in hopes of taking a bite out of the backlog of cases caused...

Insect numbers are declining, including those of dragonflies, which eat mosquitoes.

Waning spring leads to waxing summer

May 28, 2020 at 10:09 a.m.

The singing Swainson's thrush beneath the Norway spruce is gone. No longer can I hear its ethereal, flute-like rising whistles just outside my door. A few days ago when winds...

‘Scouting doesn’t have to stop because of the virus’: Lake County scouts earn self-isolation challenge patches, camp at home during pandemic

May 15, 2020 at 10:16 a.m.

Griffin Fox is a kid who needs to be busy and thrives on structure, according to his mother Carey. Thanks to a special self-isolation patch created by the Northeast Illinois...

A Baltimore oriole at a backyard feeder.

Counting on birds and a legacy

May 14, 2020 at 3:22 p.m.

In May, Facebook pages of nature lovers are replete with photos of Baltimore orioles – three, four, five, even six of them, feasting on grape jelly and orange halves offered...

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