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They've done it again. The Hinsdale Central boys tennis team won the state title Saturday for the fourth time in five years and 28th time in history. The team earned 36 points to handily beat New Trier (30 points) and Fremd (29 points) for the Class 2A championship at the state final Thursday to Saturday, May 25-27, at Palatine High School. "We always try to be optimistic," varsity coach John Naisbitt said. "We knew we were going to be in a close tournament. We really did. We...
A new model of intervention introduced at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South last year has helped struggling students. At the May 11 Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting, Patrice Payne, director of instructional equity, told board members that students qualified for the intervention program if they met two of three criteria: two or more failing grades, less than 90 percent average daily attendance and below grade level scores on standardized tests. Students who met the criteria (and others identified by the...
Grant Davis Senior Hinsdale When did you first start playing baseball? When I was about 3, 4 years old. I was in T-ball at Robbins Park. What do you enjoy most about the sport? I enjoy the relationships I make with my teammates. I just love the feeling of playing the sport in general. I'm always excited to be out on the field. What position do you play? First base. I love fielding ground balls, so I like being in the infield. I also am very good at scooping the ball when bad...
The village of Hinsdale and Hinsdale American Legion Post 250 will honor those who have served and sacrificed for our country Monday, May 29. The post will start the day with a 7 a.m. sunrise service at Bronswood Cemetery, 3805 Madison St., Oak Brook. Community members will gather in downtown Hinsdale for a procession that steps off at 10 a.m. from Third Street and Garfield Avenue. The procession will head west to Washington Street, then north on Washington to the Memorial...
Hinsdale American Legion Post 250, whose members will lead Memorial Day observations in town Monday, May, 29 (see Page 17 for details), has been part of the village since 1919. The post was featured in The Hinsdalean's Making a Difference series in 2019 to mark its 100th anniversary. Following are excerpts from the series' introductory article, which ran April 18. When Congress chartered the American Legion in 1919 and Hinsdale Post 250 was formed shortly after, the goals of...
Sarah and Jack London weren't planning to move to Hinsdale, even though Sarah (then Swanson) grew up here. "We were going to move somewhere trendy and cool, like California or Georgia," Jack said. They left New York in November 2019 and were living temporarily at Sarah's parents' house at First Street and Orchard Avenue. While taking walks in the neighborhood, they noticed the home at 518 S. Garfield Ave. "This is the only house that would get me to stay here," Jack said....
Countless dresses hang from racks along the back wall of the room in a variety of styles and colors. Some have clean, simple lines, while others are covered in lace or beads or sequins. Along the counter on the left, strappy sandals - some also with beads and sequins - are lined up. On the right, an assortment of necklaces, earrings, rings and purses wait to be matched with just the rest dress. Balloons and small pots of hydrangeas add a festive feel. Several attendants...
Today, May 18, in the commons at Hinsdale Central, the yearbook is coming. The 80th edition, to be precise, of El Diablo. I learned this from a very dramatic video, presumably made for Tik Tok and then re-posted on Facebook with the hope that Central parents and teachers (i.e. people too old for Tik Tok) would see it. Although we did not have Tik Tok when I was in high school (phones were still mounted on the wall and you could only walk as far as the cord attached to the rece...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Superintendent Tammy Prentiss has been on a leave of absence since Tuesday, according to a statement emailed by the district at 3 p.m. that afternoon. “Out of respect for Superintendent Prentiss’s privacy and confidentiality rights, the board of education will make no further comment at this time,” the release stated. Assistant Superintendent Chris Covino will serve as acting superintendent during her leave. His last day in the district is June 30, after which he will assume the post of super...
For the third year in a row, Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members have disagreed about who should lead the board. In 2021, board members spent 2 1/2 hours and took 10 votes before electing Terri Walker president. In 2022, Erik Held was elected president in a split 4-3 vote. And last week, the board chose newly seated board member Cat Greenspon as its leader, with four members voting for her and three voting for Debbie Levinthal. Board member Peggy James nominated Greenspon at the May 3 reorganization meeting. Kay...
Angie Conley Senior Clarendon Hills How did you start playing lacrosse? I originally played lacrosse in third grade through the rec league. I just didn't love it, so I ended up quitting. I came back to it heading into eighth grade. I tried out for the club team (Lakeshore Lacrosse) and I now play on it and it just stuck. What do you enjoy most about the sport? The friendships and connections I've made over the years. Lacrosse is such a community because it's pretty new to the...
About 2.7 million youth are experiencing severe major depression. Sixty percent of youth with major depression do not receive mental health treatment. Some 1.2 million U.S. youth with private insurance do not have coverage for mental or emotional challenges. Hinsdale Central juniors Maya Menon, Moria Hughes and Kavya Ravi are working to do what they can to change those statistics. The Junior Board members at The Community House have been helping to plan the Walk the Walk for...
Each of us had a mother. Whether we knew that woman, loved - or even liked - her, still have her or lost her to death or estrangement, we all are born to a mother. Those of us who are very, very fortunate have multiple women who have offered some kind of mothering to us in our lives. I feel lucky to count myself in this group. First, of course, was my Mom. In a way, she was a study of opposites. She could be very emotional at times, but she also could be unbelievably strong....
The Marquette University basketball program had quite a 2022-23 season. The team won the Big East Championship, head coach Shaka Smart was named coach of the year by the USBWA and AP, and player Tyler Kolek was named the Big East player of the year. But those aren't the only reasons soon-to-be 8-year-old Nathan Hassel of Hinsdale is a Golden Eagles fan. Hassel and his family had to chance to meet Smart and the team when Marquette traveled to Chicago to play DePaul University...
Whether teens are feeling just a little anxious or significantly depressed, looking to talk to a counselor or relax in a yoga class, The Loft at Eight Corners in Brookfield is a place for them to go. The Loft, "a space for teen mental wellness," is similar in nature to The Living Room drop-in mental health center in La Grange, which opened in 2016. Both have the support of Hinsdale-based Community Memorial Foundation. "One of the foundation's priorities is to increase access...
One of the things that has always impressed me about Hinsdale is how philanthropic its residents are - and I'm not just talking about adults. Kids at two District 181 schools are in the midst of fundraising drives this month. The Madison School Kids Care Club is holding its third annual summer camp supply drive, looking for markers, paint, paper and more to donate to the summer camp at Anne M. Jeans School in Willowbrook. And at The Lane, a group of fourth-graders is...
The mood was unusually jovial at Tuesday night's Hinsdale Village Board meeting. "Thank you all for coming," Village President Tom Cauley told the crowd. "Usually when we have this many people in the room it's not a good thing." The village's first official 150th anniversary celebration brought out everyone from residents to former trustees to a U.S. congressman. After conducting regular business (see roundup on Page 6), Cauley read a sesquicentennial proclamation, citing the...
Hinsdale officials and residents are continuing to monitor noise from planes using Midway Airport. Noise complaints for the first quarter of 2023 were down 12 percent compared to the first quarter of 2023, despite a 24 percent increase in operations, Ryan Anderson reported at the April 27 meeting of the Midway Noise Compatibility Commission. Anderson is the managing consultant at Landrum & Brown, an aviation consulting firm. Hinsdale generated 191 of the 686 total complaints f...
From the time Dan Janowick's son Will was diagnosed with biliary atresia when he was 3 weeks old, they knew he would need a liver transplant. They just didn't know when. The Kasai procedure he underwent at 4 weeks to bypass his blocked bile ducts and connect his liver directly to his small intestine was successful - but it's not a cure, said Janowick, executive director of The Community House in Hinsdale. "They explained it that a third of the kids who have the Kasai procedure...
A Hinsdale man was arrested April 18 in Minnesota on four felony counts related to attempted sexual conduct with a minor. Derrick D. Willman, 56, 502 N. Garfield Ave., faces the following charges: attempted criminal sexual conduct, third degree (penetration) with a victim age 14-15; attempted criminal sexual conduct, fourth degree (contact) with a victim age 14-15; soliciting a child or someone believed to be a child through electronic communication to engage in sexual conduct; and engaging in electronic communication...
I had months to work on my very first column. The Doings had recently been purchased by Pioneer Press and we were reformatting the paper. Editors at other Pioneer titles wrote weekly columns. Jim Slonoff said I should write one, too. Fortunately, a guy named Tom Lauricella gave me all the material I needed when he penned a piece called "Deconstructing Hinsdale" for SmartMoney magazine's July 1999 issue. I still remember the headline, which remains one of my favorites -...
Sisters Aoife and Bridget Stover of Hinsdale are no strangers to winning a title at the Irish World Dance Championships. But this is the first year they did so as part of the same team. They and their six teammates - including Gracie Massery of Hinsdale - won the world championship April 2-9 in Montreal for the 13-16 age group in team Ceili dances. All three girls started dancing when they were 4 years old. Aoife, 15, and Bridget, 13, followed in the footsteps of older...
When the District 181 Foundation sets out to celebrate writing, it doesn't cut corners. I was fortunate to be able to play a very small role in the foundation's Young Writers Night at Hinsdale Middle School last week, hosting one of the nine workshops offered. I enjoy my job and enjoy talking about writing, so those two 30-minute sessions were fun for me - and I hope for the students and parents who attended. The highlight of the night, though, was listening to the keynote...
Did you know Hinsdale police and firefighter/paramedics are wearing retro badges this year in honor of the village's 150th anniversary? At the fire department, which is also celebrating its 130th anniversary this year, the project required quite a bit of research. "There have been badge numbers physically on the badges, but they were just kind of handed out arbitrarily," firefighter/paramedic Nick McDonough said. So when he and Chief John Giannelli were talking about how to ma...
The 2023 Comprehensive School Climate Inventory results show students, staff and families all gave the district favorable marks, rating nearly all areas as positive (above 3.5). "I just think it's a fantastic celebration that all of our schools are over 4.0," Tracey Miller, director of assessment, instruction and evaluation, told board members Monday. CSCI measures 12 essential dimensions of a healthy school climate in five broad categories - safety, teaching and learning,...
